We have President Lincoln's message today, and his
proclamation of amnesty to all who take an oath of allegiance, etc., and
advocate emancipation. There are some whom he exempts, of course. It is
regarded here as an electioneering document, to procure a renomination for the
Presidency in the radical Abolition Convention to assemble in a few months. But
it will add 100,000 men to our armies; and next year will be the bloody year.
Congress spent much of the day in secret session.
A Baltimorean, last week, seeing a steamer there loading
with goods of various kinds for the Federal prisoners here, bought a box of
merchandise for $300, and put it on board, marked as if it contained stores for
the prisoners. He ran the blockade so as to meet the steamer here; and obtained
his box, worth, perhaps, $15,000. But all this is forbidden hereafter.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
115
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