Posted on 08/21/2021 7:32:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 20.
The arrest of BUTLER, READ and others, in Philadelphia, is only the first manifestation of a purpose which the Government has long entertained, but which has been delayed with a view of obtaining accumulative evidence. For some time past the Government has been satisfied that the rebels were receiving aid, comfort and advice from prominent men at the North, who all the while professed to be warmly in sympathy with the United States. Though there was positive information of this, the parties implicated were not arrested, because the Government desired to know the full extent of the treachery, and to have evidence of all its manifestations. By keeping a strict surveillance over the correspondence, supposed by the parties to be passing directly to the hands of the rebels to whom the letters were addressed, the authorities have ascertained all that it was desirable to know. While it damns a few beyond recall, it affords also satisfactory testimony that the defection of Northern men is much less than expected, and that a small number of prominent leaders being placed in confinement, the disaffection will be healed. When all the arrests are made, the public will be surprised at some men, appearing as traitors, and still more surprised that they should have committed to paper the evidence of their own guilt.
You will hardly credit that many of the rebel residents of Washington remained up all last night, waiting for the attack of JOHNSTON and BEAUREGARD. Such was the fact, and they were very much disappointed this morning at the non-appearance of those gentlemen on the opposite side.
Lieut. TOMPKINS, with a troop of cavalry, left this city on Sunday evening, and returned this morning, after a scout down the river on the Maryland shore of the Potomac.
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if lincoln freed the slaves, why didn't he make them whole and send them back home?
“We should have picked our own damn cotton”
Actually, Lincoln DID want to ship the slaves back to Liberia, or Central America, after the war. ( Google-Lincoln repatriation )
But, the Lincoln cult will never utter a word about that.
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