Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-02-27
What PRESIDENT LINCOLN TOLD COL. J. q,
BALDWIN, IN 1851.

We have already stated that immediately
after their interview with Pres dent j ohnson.
tie Virginia Legislative Delegation were
cited to appear before the U. S. Senate Re-
construction Committee. We give the follow
Ing, III part OF their examination, as we find
it In the Richnlond Dispatch: ..'
Mr.. GrAttan, being asked whether Jury
could be found in Virginia who would tiud
Jefferson Davis guilty Of treason said no
but atterward qualified the remark by sayiu"
that as Richmond had always contained a
large number Of Union men, such u iury
nigh be found When MIR. Gruttan rave
this opinion, before qualifying it as above,
MIR. Joynes rose and said he differed in
opinion with him. No other member of the
committee spoke. Subsequently MIR. Bald>
win said, during his examination, in answer
to the same question, that ninety-nine VIr-
ginians out of every hundred had agreed
with Mr. Davis in opposing the Federal
Government; that their cause had been his
cause and til t it would consequcntlv be a
painful thing to give such verdict; but
that, rs men OF honor, under instruction from
the court, they would give verdict in ac-
cnrGance with their oath as jurors, however
painful it might be. BE-. - -.t.-.
. MIR. Baldwin was further interrogatcd as
to his interview with Mr.. Lincoln in April.
1861, and answered as follows That he
had private intcrv cw with Mr. Liucoln.
aud that they had talked freely concerning
the state of the country. Mr. Lincoln asked
Why the Virginia Convention did not adjourn?
His reply was that, although there was a
Union majority in the Convention, they
would not adjourn while ignorant of the
plans fUr TIE adjustment Of our sectional diff
fcultIes. He had also said that if he had
NIr l,,f. l, 1
affection in fifteen minutes, by withdrawing
the troops from Sumter aud Plckens, and by
calling Il convention of all the States. Mr..
Lincoln had replied that he would do this.
Mr.. Howard said that lie felt certain that
MIR. Lincoln never had promised to withdraw
the troops from SHlntcrl as an indu :eRIeut tu
the, Virginia Convention to adjourn, for he
would have been swept from hIS seat by the
indignant people of the North Mr.. Bald
win replied that his memory was good, and
that such WIS his impression; but that he
was alone with Mr.. Lincoln on that occasion.
and there was no one noH to rcbut his tcsti-
mOuy, he would n It give it as anything more
than an impression left upon his mind.
AWOrd about the Toilette.
A Washington correspondent of the Bos-
! ton Post writes:
! Men IN Washington have no rule of dress,
| and go to ball or call on the Chief Ma"is-
tratc of the nation in sack coat as often as
! in trock, aud the old orthodox dress coat is
7 no more seen. The ladies dress gaudily, and
/ with a royal disregard of taste worthy of
their courage and their despair.
! Positive colors are all the rage. Soft neu-
trails are cschewed. and hair frlzzed like the
/ paper curley -kews one used to see at the end
of u ham, with band df gold passing through
it, give them the appearance affected by low
comedians as the picture of coming terror
! Warren, in =! Dickory," wears exactly the
head Of Washington belle. They come to
public table at n public hotel, not in din.
ner- but in ball dress, and not nnTredGentls
IN white bonnets with opera cloaks pendant
from their shoulders
Let me not be mistaken. The ladies are
ladies still. I but paint class which has un
z acountably found its way into their societ,
somewhat as Detective Baker found .bimseI
one among Generals from military necessit,
suppose. trust that as the country re
sulnes its normal quiet and tie taGIdro,
ceases ITS seethiDg, the scum viii again sathe
I to itself, and politics cease to be made b
: meniaa excuse for inflicting upon women q
refinement association with the vulgarities G
the suddenly wealthy.