Important Disclosure.
The following letter from an old Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, contains important revelations. It was taken from a copy of the Enquirer furnished by a gentleman, recently from the North, to the Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confederacy Washington April 7, 1862.
To the Editor of the Enquirer:
The telegraph may advise you of military results.
I doubt it, however, as every means to taken to prevent news getting out and so successfully, that more little in known of army operations except what comes through Southern papers, which seem to be early and well posted as to our military movements.
Indeed the Confederates know more of the military affairs of the people of the North than they do themselves.
I have learned through a source that can be relied on, that the two sections of the Republicans have struck hands and sealed friendship on this bests.
The radicals are to go for gradual emancipation — compensation for slaves liberated; confliction by judicial sentence — for the present, in the mean time military operations are to go on.--If the military operations succeed, these constitutional ( ) measures are to be made sufficient to the end — the utter abolishment of slavery.
If the military operations fing or fall, then Mr. Lincoln is to proclaim general emancipation as a military necessity.
The Secretary of War says that the increased transportation required by the advance in the enemy's territory has increased the war expenses to five millions per day — more than the printing machine has the power to supply.
The tax bill is an awful affair.
It will raise an enormous amount of money or destroy a vast amount of business--one or the other.
It will pass Congress.
The public debt by the 1st of July will be $1,500,000,000. That is the calculation of the chief Auditor of the Treasury.
I think it is short of the reality.
The public really know little of the true condition of the finances.
They will find it out hereafter, when they are called upon to pay the interest of the public debt.
The principal no person expects will be paid.
As I have seldom failed in my predictions of the future, as I think your readers will bear me witness, I will now make another, that this war will end in a proclamation of the freedom of the slaves, and in the separation of the cotton States from the Union; or, in their subjugation, with a change of our constitutional form of government.
I need not write you about the present Congress, Senate and House.
Nothing marks the decline of the Republic more than the degeneracy of these bodies.
There is hardly a first class intellect in either; certainly no acknowledged distinguished statesman except Mr. Crittenden, and his age has placed him on the lowest benches.
The Republic has from the highest sunk to the lowest depth.
God grant that we may rise again.
Mrs. Lincoln has felt the blow of the death of her youngest son. Sorrow is sacred, and I hope every mother will forget and forgive whatever might have appeared thoughtlessness the White House, and sympathize with the real affections of a mother.
She has been sufficiently punished for that ball in the midst of public calamities.
Shall I say a word of public corruption?
The torrent cannot now be stayed.
It is overwhelming.
Fortunes on fortunes are being made, and will be made by favorites, and there seems to be no holp for it except in general repudiation.
If I were to tell you one-hundredth of what I know, you and I would be in Fort Warren or Lafayette in a fortnight.
I don't mean to any that the Secretaries connive at or profit by these speculation at on the contrary, I am confident they set their faces against them; but they are powerless, under the vest amount of business under their hands, and the pressing necessity of their department.
I hope my health will allow me to send you an occasional letter. 