{"id":90061,"date":"2020-12-22T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=90061"},"modified":"2020-10-16T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T03:20:11","slug":"lincoln-to-stephens-for-your-own-eye-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/lincoln-to-stephens-for-your-own-eye-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln to Stephens \u2014 For Your eyes Only"},"content":{"rendered":"
To Alexander H. Stephens
\nFor your own eye only.<\/u><\/em>
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Springfield, Ills. Dec. 22, 1860<\/div>\n
Hon. A. H. Stephens
\n           My dear Sir
\n                                 Your obliging answer to my short note is just received, and for which please accept my thanks. I fully appreciate the present peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on me.
\n          Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly<\/u>, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.
\n          The South would be in no more danger in this respect than it was in the days of Washington. I suppose, however, this does not meet the case. You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
\n                    Yours very truly<\/div>\n
A. Lincoln          <\/div>\n

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Alexander H. Stephens, in Public and Private: With Letters and Speeches, Before, During, and Since the War<\/em> by Henry Cleveland; National Publishing Company, 1866 – Confederate States of America – 833 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Alexander H. Stephens For your own eye only.            Springfield, Ills. Dec. 22, 1860 Hon. A. H. Stephens            My dear Sir                                  Your obliging answer to my short note is just received, and for which please accept my thanks. I fully appreciate the present peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":87579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lincoln-transparent-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90061","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=90061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}