1978
Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 January 1864
(ed; 8 inches)
~ See original
p.2, col.1
~ View at ChronAm
1978 - L. Jan. 1; ed: 2/1 - "It has now become a daily jeremiad among the
so-called Democracy, that Mr. Lincoln, in making his Amnesty Proclamation,
has done a very cruel, impolitic and unconstitutional act.... The South,
driven to the verge of Union, ... wooed by the dulcet assurances of demo-
cratic love, ... were about to fling themselves into the loving embraces
of their Northern friends.
"According to the New York WORLD... Mr. Lincoln could have offered to
these Southern Lords no greater insult than to demand an oath of alle-
giance to the proclamation of emancipation. 'If instead of this he had
made t l;em offers which the world would have regarded as just and liberal,
the bottom of Meminger's financial bucket would have been knocked out....'
"There may be politicians ready to hob-nob with Jeff Davis in the
Senate, and look benignly upon Toombs and Stevens and men of that
sort, as... misguided men.
"They very much mistake the American people, if they imagine them to
be so blinded and gullible that they (the people) cannot see what's the
matter. Slavery is eternally doomed. In the eyes of all mankind, this
nation would be blasted with infamy to allow the men who have plunged
this once happy people into a war, to return to their old positions of
honor and favor." (8)
Index terms:
Davis, Jeff; *Emancipation; Lincoln, Abraham; Memminger; New York; New York WORLD; South; Stevens, Alex; Toombs, Robert; U. S. Senate