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Thurlow Weed On The Radicals

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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1864
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Public Domain
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Tho followiog is tho concluding portion of Mr. Weed's recent letter : Mr. Lincoln will bu;ir me witnoss, in bis moinory, tlmt in all my interviews, nothing personal over erttored; thit my suggestions and solicitudes concernid only tilo government and the Union ; thi if my earnest advice liad no' been overruled, Governor Gilmore of Norlh Carolina, aud Governor Johuson of Tflr.neseee, vvould huve bcen ni his cabinet, holding thosetwo States in tbe Union. Aud I einphatically uffirm tliat tbere was then, and is now, inore oí' true, reliuble, intelligent loyalty to the govern tnent, and affeotion lor the Union, iu tbose ravaged and bu Sering States, tben Mr. Lincoln has lound in'the bünd, fiorco, fañado abolition representatives, uriial8, aud lecturets, whose, " mahgn influence " has shaped the course of the administratio7i, and noiv becomes ts accuser and enemy ! In tliis, however, I ain not disappointed. Mor did I fail to warn the President that these exacting and dostructive leaders would turn tho weapotis be placed in their hands against liim. Tbis would be oí loss con equonee, honuver, if they had not, in the interim, by intensifying the rebelhon they invited, cost the country ■ addeel millinns of treasure and rivers of tood. Tho fact more significant than any other in tho rebel 1 ion - and a íaot that 11 be koonly feit when tbe day of accountability comes- that the wicced, homicidal slavery leaders wciuld have juiUd to consummatt their treason, hut Jor the aid reaeived f rum their ' best fnends," the abolitionist of the North, must not bj lost sight of. T. W. A Fall Ilivor eor.soript has put bis soq into tlrj b ivy as a substituto. It i.s asewted tbat an editor in JNew York made 510,000 by oollusion vviih Jloward in bis bogus prnclamation. Senator Shurrnaa ii;ii;ks the retirowiöut of tóOO.OOO.COfi of outstanding cirou'atiou would bü wurth more to us tlum a groat ic'ory. A lady ol Komewhül diguiHud domeanor, having lost her way, said to un urchin in the stroef, "Boy, [ want to r(, to Bond Stroet." -Well marm," replied thu boy, eoolly walking on, lI.v!,y don'L jou gw theru tket v

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Michigan Argus