Posted on 06/08/2021 6:30:15 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, June 7.
Through a private letter, received by the last steamer, I learn that travelers from the Southern Confederacy are presenting passports signed by "ROBERT TOOMES, Secretary of State." My informant had not yet been able to ascertain if any such passports had been vised. An acknowledgment of them would be virtually an acknowledgment of the rebel Government.
Gen. WEBB, Minister to Brazil, will sail from New-York about the first of July.
DEVELOPMENTS OF THE SEIZED TELEGRAMS.
The developments that are likely to follow the seizure of the dispatches filed in the telegraph offices will astound the country. They will show a system of treachery extending through all grades of official business and social circles. Almost everybody appears to have been engaged in giving aid and comfort to the rebels, and to have furnished means and information for securing a triumph of the rebellion. Members of Congress from Free States figure frequently among these flashes of intelligence. I think your City Representatives, some of whom are now seeking commissions in the Federal army, did their full share in giving information and telegraphic encouragement to the rebel leaders then engaged in rushing their States into the vortex of secession. Reporters for Northern Free-Soil papers handed in to the telegraph office the knowledge they had obtained through their Free-Soil professions. Even the members of the Peace Congress, and some from Free States, held out words of encouragement to the rebel leaders, that if they would keep up the fire they would break the Free-Soilers down. Several of the members of that Convention from the Border States gave regular reports of its proceedings to the rebels, while at the same time they were insisting that the proceedings should be kept from the Northern Press and public.
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It is amazing to see so many similarities to what is happening today
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