(To Sumner, February 27th, 1862.) "I fear to hear of
any surrender on the part of the South at present, fearing that men would-be an glad to have peace that they would admit the Slave States again in their fellowship, and that twenty years hence you might find the old disturber still present with you. When the white flag is hoisted from the South, and when you come to negotiate—then will be the time of real danger, and it may require more statesmanship to make peace, and more firmness, than it has required to carry on this gigantic war!"
(July 11th.) " . . . your great conflict. I wish it to end well, but I am not anxious about its ending suddenly!"
(To Villiers, August 5th, 1863.) "The rebel forces lost 83,000 men during the first half of July. ... Mr. Sumner fears they are going on too fast; no do I. .I want no end of the war, and no compromise, and no reunion till the negro is made free beyond all chance of failure: " (To Sumner, September llth, 1863.) ". . any compromise which gives up the [Emancipation] Proclamation will be the most deplorable event in history."
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