Affairs at the South
do not improve. The Secession element is becoming vicious and bad in some
quarters, and I fear it may be general. At the North there is about as much
folly in the other extreme. The President continues ill. Captain Drayton is
quite indisposed this evening.
Governor Dennison
called upon me this evening. He is very much dissatisfied with the military announcements
of some eighteen different departments and a vast concourse of generals put
forth by the War Department, or by Grant. It is a singular announcement, and
the army should be immediately reduced to one third and even less.
We had some
conversation in regard to the position taken by General Cox, the candidate for
Governor in Ohio, who goes for colonizing the blacks in South Carolina and
Georgia. His suggestions are the conclusions of one mind. But there is an
unsettled and uncertain public sentiment. The attempt to force the South into a
recognition of negro and white equality will make trouble. Cox's proposition
will not relieve us of the trouble.
I am anxious and
concerned about Drayton. He is reported to me to be quite ill. The President is
better but continues indisposed. I went this P.M. to the Navy Yard. Mr. Faxon
accompanied me. The cost and waste of war and the consequent demoralization
make me sad.
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