{"id":371664,"date":"2018-08-01T05:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T04:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-lincoln-seek-to-avoid-war\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T05:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T04:42:39","slug":"did-lincoln-seek-to-avoid-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-lincoln-seek-to-avoid-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Lincoln Seek To Avoid War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/UNION-ALL-COSTS-Confederation-Consolidation\/dp\/1634916468?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1634916468\">Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation<\/a>(2016).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI supported President Lincoln<\/em><em>. I believed his war policy would be the only way to save the country, but I see my mistake. I visited Washington a few weeks ago, and I saw the corruption of the present administration\u2014and so long as Abraham Lincoln<\/em><em>\u00a0and his Cabinet are in power, so long will war continue. And for what? For the preservation of the Constitution<\/em><em>\u00a0and the Union<\/em><em>? No, but for the sake of politicians and government contractors.\u201d<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbevilleinstitute.org\/blog\/colonel-baldwin-meets-mr-lincoln\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]\u00a0<\/a>J.P. Morgan\u2014American financier and banker, 1864.<\/p>\n<p>The assertion that Lincoln\u00a0genuinely attempted to avoid war has been preached since General Lee\u2019s surrender at Appomattox. The testimony of a Southern peace representative\u00a0who spoke with Lincoln\u00a0on April 4, 1861, in an effort to avert war provides keen insight into a side of the issue seldom heard or taught.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbevilleinstitute.org\/blog\/colonel-baldwin-meets-mr-lincoln\/#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0Some historians dismiss the importance of the meeting between Lincoln and Colonel John Brown Baldwin, but it is beyond dispute the meeting happened and pivotal issues were seriously discussed. On February 10, 1866, Baldwin\u00a0testified before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction\u00a0in Washington, D.C. His comments appeared in a pamphlet published in 1866 by the\u00a0<em>Staunton Speculator<\/em>\u00a0and he provided his account to a fellow Confederate\u00a0in 1865 just prior to the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Robert L. Dabney, Chief of Staff to Stonewall Jackson, met Baldwin\u00a0in March of 1865 in Petersburg, Virginia, when the Army of Northern Virginia\u00a0was under siege. Baldwin told Dabney, that prior to hostilities, he had been selected by the Virginia Secession Convention\u00a0to surreptitiously meet with Lincoln\u00a0in April 1861 and negotiate a peaceful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/no_author\/colonel-baldwin-meets-mr-lincoln\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor\u2019s\u00a0Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation(2016). \u201cI supported President Lincoln. I believed his war policy would be the only way to save the country, but I see my mistake. I visited Washington a few weeks ago, and I saw the corruption of the present administration\u2014and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}