SENATOR DOUGLAS ON BUCHANAN AND LINCOLN.

...He had hardly gone before Mr. Douglas called, in a state of some excitement. He had a story, the origin of which he would not give me, but which, he said, he believed that Anderson’s movement was preconcerted through one Doubleday, an officer, as I understood him, of the garrison, with “Ben Wade,” and was intended to make a pacific settlement of the questions at issue impos-
sible. I tried to reason him out of this idea, but he clung to and dwelt on it till he suddenly and unconsciously gave me the cue to his object in bringing it to me by saying: “Mind, I don’t for a moment suspect Lincoln of any part in this. Nobody knows Abe Lincoln better than I do, and he is not capable of such an act.
Besides, it is quite incompatible with what I have heard from him”

—he had said, when he checked himself with a little embarrassment, I thought, and went on—” what I have heard of his programme. A collision and civil war will be fatal to his Administration and to him, and he knows it—he knows it,” Mr. Douglas repeated with much emphasis. “But Wade and that gang are infuriated at Seward’s coming into the Cabinet, and their object is to make it impossible for Lincoln to bring him into it. I think, as a friend of Seward’s, you ought to understand this.”

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Lincoln and his people involved with a conspiracy to start a war? If Douglas had seen the letters that the Doubleday's wrote he may have had second thoughts. thoughts we have today were very much on the minds

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David Upton