to be a Union man; yet they differ materially in the manner which the war should be conducted, and the rebels punished. Many men are in favor of the Administration offering a compromise to the rebels, and accepting one on most any conditions for the sake of peace. But for my part I think that no true patriot would ever talk, or even dream of a compromise to rebels; for not a man in any Slave State has ever been oppressed by this government, or failed to reach its protection, or its benefits. When we turn to the South itself we find that the cecession of those states was not the express wish and will of a majority of their citizens. They were draggoned into cecession by political demagoges and monopolists; and then impressed into the army, and now the majority of the people
