The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-08-01

u with view 81 The Mameateul
elcJtau soon Il oceet n Noftb Caro-
Hl.aa. etc., and 0gaela3c3 - saying
IL may save as from northern Insur
fo1Naa Greeley als8 suggssiel . plan
81 adjustment Ia response Lincoln
wFgte Jnly sh, 1901
lfyoa can esd any person anywhere
protesting 30 have any proposition Of
Jefferson DAVIS. 90 su76ag or peace,
airls.ag fs restoration ~ me LHioa
and slaa3aameat # tsrora. whatever
else it embraces, say 70 him that he
may come 20 nae With you, etc.
Ahef considerable haggling at the
terms imposed ly lincoln, and some
additional correspondence. Greeley
proceeded e. Niagara Falls, where DE
opened biz famous peace negotiations.
+ falling entirely to apprise the scIf APP.
pointed rebel agents II the purpot OF
Lincola's letter. A subsequent letter
20 Greeley from the President dated
July 18Th. said II they would consent
to come on being shown my letter to
+ you Of the 9th inst show that and this
TO them, aud If they viii come oH the
terms gotei hi the former, bring them.
These letters were not shown % the
rebel agents by Greeley, but after cor.
responding with them along until the
2lst Of July, Greeley showed them a
final statement Of these same terms,
which the President sent to Niagara
Falls by Col John Hay, 70 make sure
that it was delivered The fact then
came out that the rebel agents had no
authority from Richmond Al al, and the
farce was closed.
Mr. Jewett subsequently made a
I public statement that Greeley regret.
ed the sad termination Of the iuitatory
steps taken for peace, IN consequence Of
he change made by The President in
Washington for negotiations uacoa-
ddioHaiiy This statement, as will
readily be seen. placed President Lin
coin in a grossly false position before
the people, and he applied 10 Greeley
for permission to publish the entire
correspondence, suggesting, however,
the erasure Of Greeley's references to
the North Carolina election and the
threats Of a northern instruction, as
being likely to infuse into the public
mind some ofthe dependency which
Greeley himself felt and openly avow.
ed concerning the prospects Of the
country.
This proposition Greeley declined
and Lincoln went into the canvass for
his second term, resting under the i'm
putation Of having pursued avaciIla.
ting course in relation to the proposed
negotiations for peace rather than that
the country at this crisis should receive
the impression that there was danger
of northern Instruction or doubt OF
an ultimate triumph.
On the other hand Greeley, the man
really at fault in the matter, who could
have explained it satisfactorily, in tho
meanncss OF his soul suffered the mat.
ter to rest and Lincoln was compelled
to bear it with all his other trials.
What a contrast between the two men
What lamentablc want Of patriot
ism and even common decency Oh the
part Of Greeley The feeling with
which Lincoln regarded it may be gath
cred from the following note written al
the time to the late Henry J. Raymond
editor Of the New York Times:
Ny DEAR SIR Il have proposed tc
Greeley that the Niagara correspon,
dence be published, suppressing only
the parts of his letters over which the
red pencil is drawn in the copy which
| | herewith send. He declines giving
his consent to the publication of his
letters, unless these parts be published
with the rest have concluded that
| il is a better for me to submit, for the
time to the consequences Of the false
position in which | consider he has
placed me than to subject the country
to the consequences ofpublishing these
discouragiug and injurious parts.
send you this aud accompanying copy
not for publication, but merely to OK
plain to you, and that you preserv,
them until the proper time shall come
Yours Truly,
/ ABRAHAM LISco IN.