THE LIGHT AND DARK OF THE REBELLION. Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit.-VIR. PHILADELPHIA: GEORGE W. CHILDS, 628 & 630 CHESTNUT ST. 1863. 23352.e.108. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO. PRINTED BY DEACON & PETERSON. "IN giving the resolutions that earnest consideration which you request of me, I cannot overlook the fact that the meeting speak as 'Democrats.' Nor can I, with full respect for their known intelligence and the fairly presumed deliberation with which they prepared their resolutions, be permitted to suppose that this occurred by accident, or in any way other than that they preferred to designate themselves 'Democrats' rather than 'American citizens.' In this time of national peril I would have preferred to meet you upon a level one step higher than any party platform; because I am sure that from such more elevated position we could do better battle for the country we all love than we possibly can from those lower ones where, from the force of habit, the prejudices of the past, and selfish hopes of the future, we are sure to expend much of our ingenuity and strength in finding fault with and aiming blows at each other."Extract from President LINCOLN's letter to Hon. ERASTUS CORNING and others, June 12, 1863. |