Mosby, John S. (1833-1916) to Sam Chapman
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03921.25 Author/Creator: Mosby, John S. (1833-1916) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 February 1909 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy
article about Lincoln in Cosmopolitan: "It is the best thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation of their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it."
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Feby. 10th 1909
Dear Sam:
I want you to read Watterson's article on Lincoln in the March Cosmopolitan. It is the thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation for their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it. Ask Gordon to read it & also the Life of Judah P. Benjamin: Then ask Hughes how much worse it [struck: wd. have been] [inserted: was for] [struck: if] Lincoln [struck: had] [inserted: to] set the negroes free than for Jeff Davis to have done [inserted: it]. I suppose Gordon can give some metaphysical distinction;
I can't. Yours Truly
Did you read in Jno: S. Mosby
the New Republican
paper at Staunton
last week an Extract
from Alexa. Stephens
speech against
secession in wh. he
predicted the war that
wd. follow from it.
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