The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-24

however, DIT OF history regarding the
Blair mission, which I had from distin-
guished Confederate officer in Virginia,
and which, as it was freely communicated,
I may mention here. 1t appears that one
Of the propositions which Mr.. Blair carried
to Richmond was that the Union army
should make landing on the coast of
Texas in position menacing to the French
in Mexico, that the Confederate army
should offer show of following it up, but
that the two should unite in common
cause .in vindication of the Monroe doc
trine. The war mean while would be an
adjourned question, and out of this pro-
badly settlement would arise in the end.
After the failure of, the Fort Monroe
conference in January, 1865, Mr.. Stephens
returned to his home fully impressed with
the conviction that the collapse of the
Confederacy was nigh. 1t was reported
in the papers that he went to Georgia with
the object of making speeches to arouse
the people, but this is nonsense though,
indeed, be was urged to do so. When Mr..
Davis asked him what he was going to do
in Georgia, he told him ne was going to do
nothing, but stay quietly at home and wait
for the end.
MISCELLANEA.
We condense from the remainder of the
letter the following paragraphs:
Mr. Stephens on reconstruction was IN
favor of the Sherman Johnston capitula-
tion basis.
He admits that "negro suffrage is ne
cessary result of freedom"
He hopes the system will work; but eff
it does," says he, l shall believe the long
expected millennium has arrived" Afri-
can slavery he defends as beneicent, being
the subordination of an inferior to supe-
rior race. 1t needed some amelioratons.
Thinks that if the Confederacy had sue
cecded the world would have named it the
"Black Republic"
Mr.. Stephens is kind to his laborers,
urges them all to register and vote, has
rented his farm to five families Of blacks
for one-fourth Of the product, and is him
self very good farmer.
Considers Calhoun's discourse on Co.
vernment as one of the few books that
will outlve the language in which it was
written"
Is in favor of system to secure minority
representation. ...
or moralists "he fouted Paley," "and
he thought if Paley and Wayland were
both burned, and Cicero de oticiis substi-
tuted in their place it would be great
Improvement He approved some OF
Sweedcnborg's books, adding: " His idea
of future punishment is the only rational
one for it is against reason to believe in a
vindictive deity"
LINCOLN AND SEVEN YOUNG INDIANS.
I asked him if he had known Lincoln,
and he said, Yes, very we'll we were in
Congress together, and Lincoln was one of
the Seven Young Indians" To my inquiry
who they were, he said they were seven
members Of Congress, consisting of Stevens
and Lincoln, together with Toombs of Geor,
gia, Flournoy, Pendlcton, and Preston OF
Virginia, and Cabell Of Florida, who, in s47
banded together for the purpose OF making
General Taylor President, and who re-
cciycd the name Of the "seven young In
dians," from their alertness and adroitness
in political skirmiSf-worl1. "Our people
during the war;" said he, had wonder
fully erroneous notion of Lincoln's intel
lectual ability. To be sure, he had very
little idea of the nature of the Federal
Government , but he was a wise man, and
knew the heart of the people wcll-a trait
in which he resembled Andrew Jackson
He taught in fables, like Esop; and III
Congress his speeches were mainly string
of anecdotes-an anecdote and then g
p0int. He invented most of them; but
they were generally extremely apt, and q
full collection Of them would be one Of the
most interesting Of books"