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| Brevet Maj.-Gen. J. B. Kinsman. |
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members of my staff, good men and true, have occasionally intruded upon me such belief.
When I went to New Orleans, you will remember, I told you when you said something of my taking some place in the Army of the Potomac, that the jealousies, feuds, and embroilments of the various officers were such that I did not believe I could do much good there, and that for that reason I did not want to take any part in the campaigns at Washington, although it
certainly appeared the most likely to redound in glory to those who should carry them on, and I still remain of that mind.”
We then talked of a favorite project he had of getting rid of the negroes by colonization, and he asked me what I thought of it. I told him that it was simply impossible; that the negroes would not go away, for they loved their homes as much as the rest of us, and all efforts at colonization would not make a substantial impression upon the number of negroes in the country.
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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