. History of the plots and crimes of the great conspiracy to overthrow liberty in America .. . scheme involved. But the first step of the intriguers in misconstruing the mean-ing of the President and presuming upon a sanction to call to-gether the Legislature of the State defeated all their an honest man is inclined to believe everybody elsehonest, a single deviation from integrity will arouse his fullestindignation and operate to forever destroy all confidence. Soin this instance, Mr. Lincoln, when he saw the trick, quicklyapplied the remedy, by revoking the sanction given and
. History of the plots and crimes of the great conspiracy to overthrow liberty in America .. . scheme involved. But the first step of the intriguers in misconstruing the mean-ing of the President and presuming upon a sanction to call to-gether the Legislature of the State defeated all their an honest man is inclined to believe everybody elsehonest, a single deviation from integrity will arouse his fullestindignation and operate to forever destroy all confidence. Soin this instance, Mr. Lincoln, when he saw the trick, quicklyapplied the remedy, by revoking the sanction given and with-drawing every scrap of writing that had passed. He couldhave no further conferences with such men. Such was the final effort of the lamented President to restorepeace to the country. Fortunately the valor of our nobletroops rendered other efforts unnecessary, and the war wasterminated, not by negotiation or compromise, but by the sterndecision of that arbitrament—the sword—to which the Southhad first appealed. fpHENEWYORK JPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTO*. IF-OX *.NOTILDE N -•->••«.. m-GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, U. S. fur the History of the Plots and Crimes.) GENERAL SHERMAN GEEAT CAMPAIGNS, INCLUDING HIS HOLIDAY MARCHES THROUGH GEORGIAAND THE CAROLINAS. Wu. Tecumseh Sherman is of English descent; his ancestors, Puritans,left Dedham, England, in 1634. Arriving in America, the family settledin Connecticut. Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration ofIndependence, who died in 1783, was of that family. Taylor Sherman,for many years judge in Connecticut, died in 1815, leaving a widow andthree children, Charles R., Daniel, and Betsy. Charles R. married MaryHoyt in 1810, and settled at Lancaster, now the county seat of Fairfieldcounty, Ohio. Here he commenced the practice of law, and was finallyelected Judge of the Superior Court in 1823. After serving in that capa-city for near six years, he was suddenly attacked with cholera while onthe be
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