Friday, July 29, 2011

Lincoln ignores Greeley on peace; violates Kentucky sovereignty again

The Liberal Republican candidate, Horace Greel...Image via Wikipedia
Horace Greeley
  • At Washington, President Lincoln receives the first of a series of letters from newspaper editor (and liberal Republican) Horace Greeley advocating a negotiated peace. 
  • Later today, Lincoln asks the Kentucky delegation in Congress if they will consent to "my friend Jesse Bayles" raising "a Kentucky Regiment" in blatant violation of Kentucky’s neutrality./1861
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