My imprisonment and the first year of abolition rule at Washington Volume 3

by Rose O'Neal Greenhow

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 ...by the detective Allen.' 179 CHAPTER X. RECORD OF FACTS. My Second Letter To Seward--our Commissioners--At My Own House--Seward's Sketch Op John Brown--On Arts--Seward's Reveries--Bribery And Corruption. From the rough notes in my possession, I am enabled to supply a copy of my letter to Seward of December 27th. By a fatality which it would not be safe to explain, the copy which I sent out never reached the hands for which it was WM. H. SEWARD, SEC. OF STATE, U.S. 'Washington, 398 Sixteenth Street. 'December 27. 'Sir,--I wrote to you some five weeks since, and I am not surprised at receiving no response to my letter--for where all law is set at defiance, it is not to be supposed that the rules of good breeding shall be adhered to. Neither am I astonished that a letter addressed to the Secretary of State, containing a grave appeal to his humanity against gross outrages, should form the subject of conversation amongst his subordinates in their drunken orgies in bar-rooms and hotels. This new era has inaugurated new customs. 'Aut Ccesar ant nullus is said to be your motto. My object in addressing you is to bid you pause in this your onward march--to survey the ruin you have already wrought--and, if there be one latent spark of philanthropy still dormant in your soul, to kindle it in the cause of suffering humanity. For this cruel war lies at your door, and not at that of my brethren of the South. 'In order to refresh your memory as to the errors you have committed, it is necessary that I should make a brief summary of the history of the past. We all know of the crusade which for years has been waged against the institutions of the South--beginning at Exeter Hall in England, re-echoed at Faneuil Hall in Boston, and from thence spreading like a ...

76 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2012

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Also published as Mrs. Greenhow
1814-1864