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W. H. Seward (search for this): article 1
equires incessant labor to produce the bare necessaries of life, have long looked with an envious and greedy eye upon the rich plains, the genial suns and the overflowing comfort of Southern life. The abolition crusade has been manipulated by W. H. Seward with no other design than to pave the way for an exodus of the overflowing Northern hive to the green pastures and fertile fields of the American Italy. If the object of this invasion were the restoration of the American Union, what easier than for Seward to propose to our Commissioners reconstruction and a guarantee of the rights enjoyed by the South in the old Government? But he had no such purpose. He made demands which he was sure we would refuse, only to have a pretext for drawing "the sword of justice," or, what is meant thereby, exterminating, as far as practicable, the Southern population, and transferring every acre of Southern land to Northern hands. Now that this diabolical purpose is deliberately avowed, we shall
Blair (search for this): article 1
The sword of justice. As we anticipated, the refusal of the Southern Commissioners to accept terms of degradation, which those who proposed them knew could not be accepted, has been followed by a menace of exterminating vengeance. Lincoln's newspaper organ, the Chronicle, says "the sword of justice must execute the work which the folly of blinded leaders would not accord to the arts of pacification." The whole mission of Blair to Richmond was designed for no other purpose. Was ever a country before, with three large armies in the field, called upon to lay down its arms in unconditional submission; to give the party making the demand the right to hang its principal citizens if he chose to exercise it; to surrender its whole property, as the only condition of peace? And could a Government, making such a proposition, seriously expect compliance? Could it expect the most heroic race of men on this continent to sheathe their swords upon such terms? Could it believe the South
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): article 1
The sword of justice. As we anticipated, the refusal of the Southern Commissioners to accept terms of degradation, which those who proposed them knew could not be accepted, has been followed by a menace of exterminating vengeance. Lincoln's newspaper organ, the Chronicle, says "the sword of justice must execute the work which the folly of blinded leaders would not accord to the arts of pacification." The whole mission of Blair to Richmond was designed for no other purpose. Was ever a country before, with three large armies in the field, called upon to lay down its arms in unconditional submission; to give the party making the demand the right to hang its principal citizens if he chose to exercise it; to surrender its whole property, as the only condition of peace? And could a Government, making such a proposition, seriously expect compliance? Could it expect the most heroic race of men on this continent to sheathe their swords upon such terms? Could it believe the South