. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . t men. Was it wise to multiplyand intensify such temptations by the adoption of anindiscriminate policy of constitutional amendment ? Everybody knows more than anybody ; and itmay very well be that the disasters of the past yearare due to an instinctive popular perception of thedangers of the new policy. It seems clear that, wherepopular condemnation is fairly to be inferred, it hasthus far been provoked mainly along the lines of thispolicy. But it should not be forgotten that there is anentirely distinct field, that of law, applying either
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . t men. Was it wise to multiplyand intensify such temptations by the adoption of anindiscriminate policy of constitutional amendment ? Everybody knows more than anybody ; and itmay very well be that the disasters of the past yearare due to an instinctive popular perception of thedangers of the new policy. It seems clear that, wherepopular condemnation is fairly to be inferred, it hasthus far been provoked mainly along the lines of thispolicy. But it should not be forgotten that there is anentirely distinct field, that of law, applying either to awhole State, or to part of it by local option. None ofthe facts available seem to indicate that this is any theless debatalile ground tlian it has always been. At anyrate, those who believe that prohibition in this senseis dead would do well not to be too hasty in adminis-tering upon its estate. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A HISTORY/rHE FALL OF THE REBEL CAPITAL —LINCOLN IN RICHMOND. BV JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE THE FALL OF THE REBEL CAPITAL. INCE the visit of Blair andthe return of the rebelcommissioners from theHampton Roads confer-ence, no event of specialsignificance had excitedthe authorities or peopleof Richmond. Februaryd March passed away in the routine of ward politics, which at the end of four yearsd become familiar and dull. To shrewdServers in that city things were going from,d to worse. Stephens, the Confederate Vice-esident, had abandoned the capital and theuse and retired to Georgia to await thed. Judge John A. Campbell, though per-rming the duties of Assistant Secretary ofar, made, among his intimate friends, noncealment of his opinion that the last daysthe Confederacy had come.^ The membersthe rebel Congress, adjourning after theirig and fruitless winter session, gave manydications that they never expected to reas-mble. A large part of their winters work-d been to demonstrate without direct accu-tion that it was the Confede
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