. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . c as comrades. They were merely civilians who faithfully performed dangerousand harassing military duty with boyish en-thusiasm, and some of whom have survived tolearn that republics are ungrateful, or at leastforgetful. Uncle Sam, who has been moregenerous to his veterans than any potentate ofhistory, has forgotten them. Their widows andorphans receive no pensions. Once a year the survivors of the corps fromall parts of the Union meet to renew oklacquaintance, cemented by the electric sparkover leagues of wire. Many of them never metin the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . c as comrades. They were merely civilians who faithfully performed dangerousand harassing military duty with boyish en-thusiasm, and some of whom have survived tolearn that republics are ungrateful, or at leastforgetful. Uncle Sam, who has been moregenerous to his veterans than any potentate ofhistory, has forgotten them. Their widows andorphans receive no pensions. Once a year the survivors of the corps fromall parts of the Union meet to renew oklacquaintance, cemented by the electric sparkover leagues of wire. Many of them never metin the field, but they knew each other well bytelegraph, and can still recognize the touch ofa comrades hand on the key a thousandmiles away. The experience of this country, wliichdemonstrated the value of a mifitary telegraph,induced the immediate organization of suchcorps, but on a more strictly military basis, inall European armies.^ 1 See Lieutenant Von Treuenfeklts Kriegs-Tele-graphie, and Die Kriegstelegraphie of CaptainIucholtz. ./. Eminct O^ ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A HISTORY. BLAIRS MEXICAN PROJECT —THE HAMPTON ROADSCONFERENCE —THE XIIITH AMENDMENT. BV JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE PRESIDENT. BLAIRs MEXICAN PROJECT. of Severance of the Union — precisely what we will not and cannot give. His declarations to this effectHE triumphant reelection ^^ ^^P^* ^<i oft-repeated. He does not attemptr AT T • ^1 :^ M^,r^^ to deceive us. He affords us no excuse to deceiveof Mr. Lincoln in Novem- , ,, ^ i * -i (.*i n • ourselves. He cannot voluntarily re-acceptthe Union; we cannot voluntarily yield it. Between him andus the issue is distinct, simple, and inflexible. It isan issue which can only be tried by war, and de-cided by victory. If we yield, we are beaten ; if theCiSive popular majorities Southern people fail him, he is beaten. Either way,had pointedly rebuked the it would be the victory and defeat following war. What is true, however, of him who
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