Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-07-25
rnE IVORY OF q. a.S cOSEEpERArEs.

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THE STORY or n a.'s cONFEDERkTEs.
In December, 1854, Mr.. Lincoln sent 10
Congress the message-'In stating Che single
condition Of peace, l mean simply 10 say that
the war win close on the part Of the Govern
ment whenever Il shall have closed on tho
part Of those who began It." Il was almost
eIActiy on the same day that the notorious
Jacob Thompson sat down 10 write 10 J. 2.
Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary OF War,
the story Of premeditated villalny that we
print In other columns this morning. sher-
man, at the head OF the most magnificent
army that ever stood m battle-line, was
sweeping down 10 the sea; the heroic army
Of the Potomac was IN winter quarters before
Petersburg, having passed through the bloody
days Of the wilderness; the Presidential cam
palgr had been won, and Abraham Lincoln
reelected. In contrast with the policy Of
peace and kindness and good viii marked
out In the beginning, and adhered 10 faith
fully 70 The end, we set the murderous story
OF The COnfederacy, not written from party
standpolnt, not embelllshed TO suit the day or
The hour, but told, a. Il was told At the time,
IN ths cold and bloodless language Of It's
trusted agent
From Jacob Thompson, who was chosen
by the iuhumAn conspiratorS who ruled at
Richmond TO carry out the most unheRrd Of
crimes and atrocities with whose preparation
man WA ever charged, We gather that in
1854 the Confederate Government resolved
upon laying the cities Of the North In ashes;
Of, In conjunction with the reasonable or
ganIzation Of the Knights Of the Golden Cir
Gle, carrying terror and ruin and desolAtion
10 every Northern home. This notorious
Heonndrsl Thompson Informs his ofnciG
ehloi, who had dispatched him with abundant
means on his mission of raplne and murder,
that while he was In correspondence with
Horace Greeley for terms Of peace, he was nj
the same time plotting with the Democratic
leaders 70 FIRE the train which should en-
Velopc the North In the flames Of bloody
revolution.
IL was thought that the States Of Ilinols,
Indiana and Ohio could be seiHed, and
that Missouri, to use Mr.. Thompsou's Ian
guAge, could DO lifted from her PROSTATE
condition" and that peace would come In
sixty days Tue close alliance between the
Coniederacy and the Democratic managersis
shown by the fact that the operation Of The
scheme depended upon The holding Of the
Denocrahe convention Inc blow was 10
nave ooeh ssiuek on uie 7oeh o. 1u'J' rre-
Nious 70 that peace mcoangs were TO have
been held so as % prepare the public mind
for the general uprising. II seems That at
THIS Tine the nerves OF the leaders began TO
relax that TIC traitors In he North who had
mot the courage 70 join their follow traitors
In The South became alarmed, and hesitated
70 run The risk OF the halters they so richly
deserved. From this Il Will DO seen that 1t
was coWardice and not any feeling Of patriot
ism or OF Temorse that saved ne country from
INC tor1oie uesoia''on 'nath oeeh prepared
LOT IL
thompson was ureiess worker In the
cause OF INC Oonieaeraey. banned oy the
eea'eieas vigilance Oh the Administration In
me attemPH WIN the assistance OF the Demo
eraIle tIaisoIS' 70 ssl.e thiee OF tour states
"o neAI IN" IN nun PiTsHnH " IeieHss me prs
cities; 10 cause a financial panic In New
York; 10 destroy the steamboats, on The Mia
sIssIppl river. in which be was partIv mccess.
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