...is only a question of time. * * * Unless the principles governing the future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and approved, the effort to obtain...slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies." It would not have been surprising had the expression of views so antagonistic to the civil policy of...

...Wendell Phillips as "the slave-hound from Illinois" ; and on the other hand by McClellan, who wrote that "a declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our armies." * Yet Lincoln was but waiting until public sentiment should overtake his own desire. A compensated...

...that the Emancipation Proclamation was issued ? For the general had warned his President on 7 July, ' a declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies '.1 The prospect of another winter of bickering and procrastination was more than Lincoln thought the...

...favor of the Almighty. Unless the principles governing the future conduct of our struggle shall bo made known and approved the effort to obtain requisite...of military power. The national forces should not bu dispersed in expeditious, poete of occupation, and numerous armies, but should be mainly collected...

...forces. . . . Military power should not be allowed to interfere with the relations of servitude. ... A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies."25 22. Bruce Catton, Grant Moves South (Boston, 1960), 294, 296. 23. OK, Ser. I, Vol. 17, pt....

...forces. . . . Military power should not be allowed to interfere with the relations of servitude. ... A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies."25 22. Bruce Catton, Grant Moves South (Boston, ig6o), 294, 296. 23. OK, Ser. I, Vol. 17, pt....

...confiscation of property . . . (n)or forcible abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment. ... A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies."22 But by this time Lincoln had begun to move precisely in the direction that McClellan advised...

..."forcible abolition of slavery," the general wrote, must not be contemplated "for a moment," and he warned, "A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery,...will rapidly disintegrate our present Armies." The only record of Lincoln's reaction to the letter is in McClellan's account, which has the president...

...policy that must be pursued if the country was to be saved. Of special interest was his belief that "a declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies." But Lincoln needed a "Commander in Chief of the Army; one who possesses your confidence, understands...

...ground of military necessity, even to the extent of compensated manumission throughout a state. But "A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies. . . ."71 At length, during the winter of 1861-1862 McClellan unveiled to the President his plans for...