. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . E 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,
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . E 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 heads the in-surgent cause is not necessarily true of those whofollow. Although he cannot re-accept the Union,they can. Some of them, we know, already desirepeace and reunion. The number of such may. ber, 1864, greatly simpli-fied the political conditionsas well as the military pros-pects of the country. De- individuals who proclaimed, and the party which had resolved, that the war was a failure. The verdict of the ballot-box not only decided the continuance of a war administration and a warpolicy,butrenewed the assurance of a pub- increase. They can, at any moment, have peace lie sentiment to sustain its prosecution. When simply by laying down their arms, and submitting Congress convened on the 6thof December,andthe President transmitted to that body his an-nual message, he included in his comprehensivereview of public affairs a temperate but strongand terse statement of this fact and its potent sig-nificance. Inspired by this majestic manifes- to the national authority under the so much, the Government could not, if itwould, maintain war against them. The loyal peoplewould not sustain or allow it. If questio
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