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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
the war he is waging must sooner or later prove a failure. He well understands what fate must then overtake the politicians who had a part in it. Defeat, disgrace, heavy taxes, enormous debt, commercial ruin, national disappointment and remorse — these will be millstones that will sink their authors into the depths of perdition, below the reach of the hand of resurrection. In the whole course of the affair, he has taken care of his record as a friend and advocate of peace. With his friends Weed he was earliest in the field for conciliation. It was with him that the Submissionists of the Virginia Convention held their secret negotiations, while they ought to have been placing the State in a condition of defence. He is known to have been in favor of withdrawing the troops from Fort Sumter. But for the pressure of abolition opinion at the North, he would have averted war and consented to peaceful secession, if he could not have compromised the difficulties that troubled the country.