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Altre immagini1864 Letter from a Captain in the Union Army Decrying Lincoln's "military despotism", Suppression of Democratic Political Views, and "Our abolition friends" who "don't mean to fight"
[Civil War - Northern Democratic Opposition to Abolition - Copperheads] Hoskinson, Thomas J.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Erie, Pennsylvania, 1864
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Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Near Fine. A letter from Thomas J. Hoskinson of the 58th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company E, to Major Charles Winn of Company G. Hoskinson was in a hospital in Erie recuperating from an unspecified but serious illness, and writes to Winn primarily because he is "endeavouring to get out of the service and am us…ing all the influence of my friends towards that object." Hoskinson seemed to have wanted out partly due to the illness, but more importantly because of his deep ideological disagreements with Republicans and abolitionists. He begins his complaint: "Like you I am tired of the War and the service and disgusted with this abolition administration. Didnt it make your blood boil, when Lincoln laid down his Ultimatum, that no proposition for peace would be entertained, that did not contain the abandonment of Slavery? What right had he to say that? Was there ever a greater usurpation of power? The fact is, this country is one vast military despotism." Hoskinson comments that "while Republican officers would be allowed full swing to say and do as they pleased, the Democratic officer that would dare lift his voice to electioneer against Lincoln, would be summarily dismissed." He then turns his ire more directly towards advocates of abolition, criticizing them for what he perceives as their unwillingness to actually fight for their cause and their inability to convince anyone else to do so: "Have you noticed how nobly and patriotically Erie County + City responded to the call for 100 lay men. Erie Co can always be relied on to give a majority of from three to four thousand for 'a vigorous prosecution of the war' and 'the hanging of domestic traitors' and the city a majority of three hundred. Well after the drumming and making abolition speeches for a week Six (6) men went from the whole county. Our abolition friends don't mean to fight and when you hear them speak of spending the last dollar and losing the last man, it is his copperheadneighbors dollar he speaks of and he himself intends to be the last man." Hoskinson worried that Lincoln's re-election was a certainty "Unless there is a great reaction before fall-and God grant it", and hoped that the Democratic party would nominate James Guthrie over George McClelland, correctly predicting that "McClellan would be badly defeated" by Lincoln. Of interest to historians of opposition to abolition and the Civil War from the North, especially from within Union Army ranks. . Folded vertically, else Near Fine Single seven-page letter measuring 5 x 8 inches, signed ?T J Hoskinson.
