My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington I had been long a resident 'of Washington before the secession of the Confederate States, and, from my intimate acquaintance with public men and public measures under the Old government had peculiar and exceptional means of watching the progressive development Of the designs Of these leaders Of Opinion in the Federal States, which, as I had long foreseen, would necessarily end in forcing on a separation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.