. The Civil War : the national view . Breastplate found in front of Petersburg. Frofn the original in theConfederate Memorial Museum^ Orleans. rHE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR 369 he could not have talked with more vigor and enjoyment ifhe had been in the smoking-room of the Senate. He talkedonly too much and too well. Lord Palmerstons proceed-ing was cruelly Socratic. He confined himself to questions,and the answers came in a flood. Mr. Mason told himthat the war would end with this campaign; that the Northcould not replenish its armies; enlistment had ceased, andthey dared not draft. In repl
. The Civil War : the national view . Breastplate found in front of Petersburg. Frofn the original in theConfederate Memorial Museum^ Orleans. rHE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR 369 he could not have talked with more vigor and enjoyment ifhe had been in the smoking-room of the Senate. He talkedonly too much and too well. Lord Palmerstons proceed-ing was cruelly Socratic. He confined himself to questions,and the answers came in a flood. Mr. Mason told himthat the war would end with this campaign; that the Northcould not replenish its armies; enlistment had ceased, andthey dared not draft. In reply to Palmerstons innocent in-quiry what they would do with Washington, after they hadcaptured it, he replied that it would be destroyed, not vin-dictively, but to keep the enemy at a distance. The defeatof Grant and Sherman, which he assumed as a matter ofcourse, would be followed by anarchy in the North, whichwould probably prevent any election being held; if held,Lincoln would be defeated. Now, then, was the time forEurope to inter
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