previous next


The Abolition General.

There seems some plausibility in the idea of a Northern journal that the appointment of Burnside as McClellan's successor is not designed to be permanent, but that he is merely to hold the place till an Abolition General can be found who will carry out cos amore the spirit and letter of Lincoln's proclamation. Burnside, it is understood, is of the conservative school, and has labored for some time under the suspicion of being a gentleman. If this suspicion prove well founded, we may be sure that his command of the Army of the Potomac will be much briefer than that of his predecessor. There is another circumstance which gives color to the surmise that Burnside is not intended as a permanent chief. The New York Times, some weeks ago, declared that when martial law should be fully inaugurated in the North the Federal Government would subordinate the State Governments to its own will, and pay no more regard to the State Constitutions than it has done to the Constitution of the United States. It is not altogether impossible that the central despotism at Washington will take to treat the late elections in the North the people should undertake to deploy the army to enforce submission in that event as Abolition General at the head of its army. A con that purpose could easily be found, of a gigantic crusade for the Government of both countries be complete. The of Burnside do not entitle him to his once and there must be some ulte object in his appointment.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Burnside (4)
McClellan (1)
Lincoln (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: