ASHEBORO, July 13th, 1861.
Lincoln's commentary on the omission, in some of our declarations of independence of the passages in the old and his (supposed) declaration, that all men are born free and equal, coupled with his whole course, inclines me to the belief that he and his party have not desired the South to become satisfied with the Union in order to permit them, under pretext of enforcing the laws, to make war upon and extinguish slavery. He can not be fool enough to expect to restore the Union now by military force. He thinks when the horrors and burthens of war are fully realized in the South that the non-slaveholders will join him to extinguish slavery, the cause of the war, as all extremists pretend. If these are his views we may all have to take arms. We are all united to fight to the death rather than be conquered, but some of us can see little that looks bright even beyond victory.
SOURCE: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Editor, The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, Volume 1, p. 155
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