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At Random Strung
By HENRY P. MOORE
„ OFT-MOOTED QUESTION
1
Was there ever any tangible offer
wade by the Lincoln government to
allow compensation for the slave
property of the Confederates? Was
there ever any intimation from any
authoritative source that such inten
tion! was ever considered? This oft
recurring question has been bobbing
up regularly for some years past and,
Jihe Banquet's ghost, it refuses to down.
Along with it is related the equally
Improbable story that Lincoln, placing
his hand upon the shoulder of Alex
ander Stephens, at the Peace Confer
ence at Hampton Roads, said:
“Stephens, I have written 'Union'
at the top of this sheet of paper; you
cani write anything else you please
beneath it!”
Don't common sense tell you that
if this had happened, Mr. Stephens
■would have promptly written: Peace
compensation for slaves and property
destroyed, pensions for Union and Con
federate soldiers alike, and the resto
ration of the state's rights, as they
were before the commencement of hos
tilities?
What was Mr. Stephens there for?
What more could he or any other mem
ber of the commission accomplish If
Idncoln had made such an offer, was
it not Mr. Stephens' duty as a peace
commissioner to so report it to the au
thorities at Richmond and to the peo
ple of the seceded states?
Greeley's Efforts for Peace.
Mr. Stephens makes no mention of
any such incident in his "War Be
tween the States” nor does Jefferson
Davis, in his “Rise and Kali of the
Southern Confederacy.” If anything
of such an important nature had tran
spired. it seems as if they would have
deemed It worthy of discussion.
It looks like James G. Blaine and
Sun Set Cox would have had some
thing to say about so important a mat
ter as the offer of compensation for I
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three thousand millions worth of prop
erty, the only property specifically
mentioned by the constitution, and
they would have been very apt to say
something about so generous a peace
proposal, coming at a time when both
sides were sick and worn out with the
long, bloody and exhausting war. But
they don't.
Before his death, John H. Reagan,
one of the peace commissioners of
the Confederates, and postmaster gen
eral under Cleveland, wrote me a per
sonal letter, in which he denied any
knowledge whatever of such a pro
posal. And I have failed to find any
mention of it in any authoritative his
tory of those times.
Leading Republican Editor.
The only possible foundation on
which to base anything that smacks
of an offer of compensation for slave
property, is found in the Life of Hor
ace Greeley, the great New York edi
tor This was merely a suggestion
that met with no encouragement, but]
it may have been the basis of what
afterward became the vague and in
definite statement of what took place
at Hampton Roads.
William Cornell Jewitt, of Colorado,
was greatly Interested in bringing
about peace to the warring sections
anil at his invitation, the agents of the
Confederate government met him at
Niagara Kalis to try and arrange a
satisfactory peace plan.
Greeley, who had been corresponding
both with Jewitt and with Lincoln,
wrote to the latter: 'Y venture to re
mind you that the bleeding, bankrupt,
almost dying country longs for peace.”
He then submitted a plan for peace,
which contemplated the restoration of
ti.e l nion. the abolition of slavery, and
also the payment of the sum of $400,-
000,000 to the slave owners as com
pensation for their loss. He also sug
gested that the Confederate agents he
given assurance of safe conduct to
Washington.
Lincoln Not Agreeable.
Lincoln did not take kindly to the
plan. But he did not care to incur
the enmity of a man of Greeley’s pow
er, especially at a time when the elec
tion was coming on. Then, again, lie
saw an opportunity to put a quietus
on the peace party of the North, whicn
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was growing all the time and clamor
ing loudly for peace.
He therefore wrote to Mr. Greeley:
"If you find any person, anywhere,
professing to have any proposition of
Jefterson Davis in writing, for peace,
embracing th e restoration of the
Union and the abandonment of slavery,
whatever else it embraces, say to him
he may come to me with you, and that
if he really brings such a proposition
he shall have safe conduct with the
paper (and without publicity if he
choose) to the point where you shall
have met him. The same if there be
two or more persons.”
Having received a letter so forbid
ding in tone, Mr. Greeley knew not
how to respond to the overtures for
peace of the Confederate agents at
Niagara Falls, and he therefore hesi
tated to go, before them. In his per
plexity aiui embarrassment he again
wrote to Lincoln urging the necessity
for peace and intimating that then
would he a most opportune time when
the agents of the Confederate govern
ment were waiting to know upon what
terms they could count.
Tantamount to a Rejection.
Mr. Greely went to Niagara Falls
not knowing exactly where he was at,
so to speak. There h e met Jewitt,
who took a note from him to the
agents of the Confederates, Messrs.
Clement C. Clay, James P. Holcombe
and George N. Sanders, in which he
claimed that he was authorized to
tender them safe conduct to Washing
ton.
They replied thqt they had not been
clothed with authority to treat for
peace on the terms prescribed by Lin
coln, wiithout referring the matter to
the authorities at Richmond. Mr.
Greely, too, was without authority and
had to wire to Washington to ask for
further instructions.
The affair was very loose jointed,
as the Confederate agents were re
quited to surrender everything the
Confederates were fighting for as a
condition upon which the terms of
peace might be arranged after dis
cussion.
In reply to Greeley's telegram, Lin
coln forwarded the following note;
Washington, July IS. 1564.
To whom it may oencern: Any prop
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA,
Open Season in Elephants—Tzvo
Hundred of the Great Beast
Caught Every Year in India
This is the year of the “elephant bat
tue,'' in the great forests of Mysore, In
dia.
The hunting of these gigantic animals
is permitted in India only every fifth
year. On the average from -00 to 250
wild elephants are captured during the
battue season, and these are trained for
the various purposes for which the
Asiatic elephant is used, writes Garrett
P. Serviss. Everybody knows hew con
spicuous a part tamed elephants play in
the great public spectacles in India. In
dian princes and'off 1 dais sometimes pay
thousands of dollars for exceptionally
fine and intelligent elephants. After
they have been properly trained they are
furnished with trappings gloaming with
gold and splendid color. The howdah
that an elephant trained for hunting
carries on its back, and in which its
master rides, while its driver places
himself just back of its head, frequently
weighs more than 200 pounds, but the
huge animal regards it no more than a
horse does a riding saddle.
On a good level road an elephant will
march, at the rate of five iles per hour,
and he is capable of running, for short
distances with a speed of 20 miles an
hour. He can carry, in regular service,
from 1.200 to 1.500 pounds, and he would
not greatly mind a ton or more.
One of the most interesting employ
ments of the elephants is in hunting tig
ers From tlie lofty back of his ele
phant. at a height which, increased by
tlie howdah, may be 12 or 14 feet above
tlie ground, the hunter can take his aim
at a tiger with a coolness that be would
not possess if facing the animal on terra |
firma. If. os sometimes occurs, tlie \
tiger makes a leap for the elephant, he
seldom succeeds in attaining the man in
tile howdah. although the driver, in his!
eposed position on the elephant's neck. ;
is in greater danger.
There seems to be a natural enmity
between elephants and tigers, although I
an elephant will not attack a tiger nr- 1
less cornered, or compelled to do so bv 1
the tiger's own fault. Rut then a good, i
fighting elephant will, if lie can once pet I
Lis tusks to bear on his enemy, gore
him to death, or literallv crush idm by I
kneeling on him. It is said that the
mere presence of a dead tiger will drivel
osition which embraces the restoration I
of peace, the Integrity of the whole
1 nion and the abandonment of slavery,
and which comes by and with an au
thority that can control the armies
now at war against the United States,
will he received and considered by the
executive government of the United
States and will he met by liberal terms
on other and collateral points, and the
hearer or hearers thereof shall have
safe conduct both ways.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Greeley said $400,0(10,000; hut how
much did Lincoln say? At the Hamp
ton Roads conference he made dte
identical demands and there is noth
ing to show that he ever seriously
considered tlie idea of compensating
I lie" slave"owners for* their loss, so far ,
as 1 can ascertain.
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some elephants to fury.
In view of the vast strength possessed
by full-grown elephants, it seems almost
incredible that they can be captured in
herds, and quickly subdued to tlie will
of their masters. At the present time,
in Mysore, the regular method of cap
turing wild elephants is for a large
number of natives to go into the jun
gle. some mounted on tamed elephants
and many on foot, and to make a great I
noise and hullabaloo, which results in
driving herds of tlie wild elephants into
stockades, or often into ponds of water,
which have previously been surrounded
on all sides, except at the approaches, bv
immensely strong palisades. As soon as
the herd is cornered, the pasages that
had been left open are securely closed,
and then the trained elephants are
brought into play to cajole and subdue
the perplexed prisoners.
In India elephants are no longer cap- I
tured. as they still are in Africa, by'
means of huge pitfalls in the ground. In j
these traps they are often seriously in
jured or killed. The Indian elephant is I
somewhat smaller than the African, and j
differs from it in other ways, as, for I
instance, in the fact that tusks are pos-I
sessed only by the males, while both I
sexes are provided with them in At- I
riea. In general also tlie tusks of As- '
riean elephants are nearly twice as large :
as those of their Indian relatives. a I
single pair sometimes weighing as much
os 250 or 300 pounds.—Philadelphia
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