The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-10-10
Dun Green on President Lincoln and tho
Bogus Wadsyyorth Letter.

| N--SHiNH--S, CStIS.nDer ID.
To tie jEHto,. q he IFuId: r
In your paper Of to-day is q comment on what
purports 70 be an extract from letter OF the late
letter, il is said. ho pledged himself 10 require
qualified ,:csro suffrage as condition Of general
amnesty. After Mr.. Lincoin's iirst clectic:., in
Toombs, OF the. Senate committee of thirteen to
whom tho subject was referred, had agreed to ac-
cept Mr. Crittcnden's resolutions all adjustment
of the issuo between the North and the South, if
offered in good faith by tho North, ana that that
proposition had been rejected after consulting
with the then President Buchanan and others, I
to Washington, by his influence with his friends
secure its adoption, and thereby prevent dieunon.
Mr.. Buchanan authorized me to say to Mr.. Lincoln
that il he wonld do 30 he would DO received with
all the respect due to him as the President elect
Mr.. Lincoln declined going to Washington, but
wrote as he told Inc, to one OF the Senators from
! lllinoisSiving his assent
| After the falP of Richmond saw President Lin
coin thefe. He told me that he came to Wash
ington resolved to carry out, in good faith, the
pledges that lie gave to me at Springfield, viz:
that, as President, he would favor no measure of
| which the South would havo cause to complain;
and that it was upon his recommendation that the
constitutional amendment, proposed by Mr.. Cor
win as substitute for the one offered by Mr.. Ad-
ans, OF Massachusetts, was adopted by his friends
! in Congress, as folows
'That no amendment shall be made to the Con-
stitution which will authorize or give Congress
power to abolish or interfere, within any State
with the domestic institutions thereof, including
tHdt Vi persons nelu TO laDOf or SefS1tuue by tho
laws of said State"
In reply to an appeal which I made to him for
peace, President Lincoln's words were, in sub
stance, as follows:
eff yon want peace, como back into the Union
If You wish to keep your slaves come in and VOTE
az States, against the constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery. cannot recall my proclama-
tons. 1t will be for tbe courts to decide whether
they are law or not OF that You must Judge But
have the pardoning power, andw usoit freely"
| This conversation was in the presence of Gen.
Weitzel, Judge Campbell, late of tho Supreme
Court, one Of General wcitzels aids, and several
others; and was told; and believe, that in conso-
quence OF the conversations held with Judge
Campbell and myself, and the pledges then givon
to us, President Lincoln, in letter addressed to
General Wcitzel. authorized the meeting Of tho
Virginia Legislature, according to tho notice sub
so9uently inserted in the Richmond papers,
General Shcrmans comment on the proceedings
of the Secretary Of War justifcs the belief uiat
Mr.. Lincons Instructions to him, relative to the
termination Of the war, wcro given in the same
spirit; and tho disaTowal of the arrangements first
made between Generals Sherman and Johnston
indicates that the surrender of General Lee having
intervoncd, tho government at Washington We're
then unwilling to mako peace on tho terms sug-
gcsted by Mr.. Lincoln 1T Richmond.
| make no comment The facts are as stated.
| DuFF GREEN.