Abraham Lincoln

“Are Not These Criticisms Already Acrimonious Enough”

Posted on April 23, 2016

Are not these criticisms already acrimonious enough ? Throughout the country the radical press is declaring that the President is blind, incapable, or cowardly, and that he has been infected with Seward’s pacifism. What has he done? The one positive action with which he can be credited is his refusal to receive a deputation from the rebels. On the other hand, the Democrats are clamoring for the evacuation of the forts, and for peace at any price. They want no truck with the ” black” Republicans. At the same time the wildest rumors are current, one of them being to the effect that more and more officers of the regular army are deserting to the South. Lincoln listens to it all, reads the papers; hears what visitors, experts, and ordinary folk have to say; and throughout March is pondering a solution.

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