My Dear Charles,
— How grandly the country is speaking for the war and the policy! Night before
last I dined with Colonel Raasloff1 and Count Piper and Habricht,
and I claimed that thus far we had proved that in a republic patriotism was not
necessarily subordinated to party spirit. It seems just now as if our true
victory were to be greater than even we had supposed.
I have seen Lincoln tete-a-tete since I saw you, and
my personal impression of him confirmed my previous feeling. I am sorry that
Fremont seems to be placed in a position which can please no real friend of
his. Only to-day I have an invitation from the office of “The New Nation” to
meet some friends of all the radical candidates to “take steps to form a
radical national committee, and to secure a radical platform, and a reliable
radical man for the presidential campaign about to open.” Last week I went to
Baltimore, and supped at the Union Club with a dozen of the most strenuous men
there. Every one, when the war began, was a pro-slavery man; now they will have
nothing but immediate, uncompensated emancipation. Charles, you and I are
superannuated fogies.
_______________
1 The Danish Minister.
SOURCE: Edward Cary, George William Curtis, p.
177-8
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