{"id":104147,"date":"2021-04-21T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=104147"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T03:42:08","slug":"room-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/room-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Room Enough!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About this same date [April 21] a deputation of sympathizers [from Maryland] visited the President, and demanded a cessation of hostilities until the convening of Congress, accompanying the demand with the assertion that seventy-five thousand Marylanders would contest the passage of troops over their soil. <em>Mr. Lincoln<\/em>, in refusing to accede to the truce, <em>quietly replied that he presumed there was room enough on her soil to bury seventy-five thousand men.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Williamson, David. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rl0DAAAAYAAJ&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;pg=PA15#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States<\/a> ..<\/i> Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1864.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this same date [April 21] a deputation of sympathizers [from Maryland] visited the President, and demanded a cessation of hostilities until the convening of Congress, accompanying the demand with the assertion that seventy-five thousand Marylanders would contest the passage of troops over their soil. Mr. Lincoln, in refusing to accede to the truce, quietly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-and-public-services-of-abraham-lincoln-sixteenth-president-of-the-united-states-and-commander-in-chief-of-the-army-and-navy-of-the-united-states"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}