, 1864-07-27
TIE PEACE ,NEGOTIATI0NS.
A nut FOR CoPPERHEADs.
Card from EdmuEd Kfrke-1cf Da.
Wis Is for Independence or
EXTERN InntlGu.


As the small amount Of printers Ink
which you used upon me in last evenings
Transcript somewhat affects my friend Col.
JncQuess-for whom you ch a-re me With nav
Ing ia weakness'-you will, I know allow
me q small space in reply.
confess to "Weakness'' for Colonel JAG
queee, and hope the day may never come
all men like him. I consider him o.: 9raTe,
. true, patriotic, Christian gentleman. He Is
widely known and esteemed at the Ne5t-
Before the war he WAS for fourteen years
Precedent Of Quincy College. 1llinols, and 1t
the breaking ont OF the rebellion was select
ed by Gov. Yates to raise three years reg1-
mcpt.
He did 80, and with that regiment was In
the front OF the assault at Fort Donelson;
did effective service at Pittshurg Landing;
saved our left wing at Pcrryvius; sfousht as
General Rosecrans' exact words to me) at
Stone river; stood his ground until three
horses were shot under him, and three,
fourths of his men lay dead and wounded
about him, at Chickamauga, aud was the .trH
man to enter the rebel intrenchmcnts on the
heights Of Mission Ridge. Such record:
for him.
With his supposed ss mission - have moth
ingSfo do. Iwept with hidl-er rather nc
went with me, for my pass directed General
Grant to allow. Z. Gilmore aud friend 70
pass our llnes and go South. TO Richmond,
cally, that the President kn:w nothing Of his
accompanying me.
Mr. Lincoln, though an old.time friend and
acquaintance Of Col jacques, has not even
seen him for now nearly three years: =
cnes 70 onr Tst % M pass orsnate nj
do not know. Until twelve o'clock lust
night--when returned to mJ home iu this
city-l had communicated to no human
being, except Generals Butler. and Grant aud
the President, the fact Of having been In the
rebel capital at all.
So much for your paragraph. Now, allow
me few words In reference to telegram in
this morniDg's AI1ertiSef, which charges me
with being IN attaeAs of the New York Trib-
Ane, and with having some connection with
the sanders-Grce1ey negotiation that is sald
to be going On at Niagara Falls.
UNI not, and never have been, connected
With the New York Tribune. At the urgent
solicitation of Mr.. Sidney Howard Gay, the
managing editor of that journal {who ia a
very dear and intimate friend Of miue) I did
Association, publishing cheap edition of
my books, (but TINT arrangement was long
since discontinued and did, lin July last,
write half q dozen sketches for that paper.
have not, however, exchanged q word
With Mr.. Greeley, or even seen him, for fully
lUICE 1uOQtQ6, A0u uafE uu CuuuEELlul Will.
in fact know absolutely. nothing Of his the
gotiations."
This much, however, in reference to that
much talked Of matter, heing Yankee, I
can guess. It will result In nothing.
Jefferson Davis said to me LAST Sunday,
{und with all his faults believe him to be
Iuau of truth): "This war must 70 on till
the last Of this generation falls in his tracks,
and his children seize his musket and fight
our battle, unless you acknowledge our right
to eelfgoverrment- We are not fighting for
slavery We are fighting for Independence,
and that, or externllhation, we will have"
If McEsEs. Sanders, Ho'comb, Thompson
s. Co. have "pul1ed the woop' over the eyes
of Mr. Greeley, they have not pulled 1t over
the eyes Of Mr.. Lincoln. lie, know, fully
understands and appreciates their oyerturcs,
and you can eafels assure your readers that
the interests and honor OF the country are
safe in his bands. If every man, woman and
child in this nation knew him rs do, they
would believe this, aud would say, as do,
GOD DLEes HIM. -;
have returned from the South much pros
trated by disease contrncted there, hut II my
strength allows, I shall tell you, and your
readers. show and why I went to Rich
mond." in the next (September) number Of
the -4tlantic Monthly. You have alluded to
me as Edmund Kirkc," and the reading
public know me by that cognomen, but ns
desire to be considered "persona1ty respou-
Eible'' for the statements herein, subscribe
my true name hereto.
JAMES R. GILMORE,
81 West Cedar street, Boston.
Friday Morning.