President Lincoln and General Grant on Peace and War. Two column printed broadside. In left-hand column "Interview with the President. Mr. Lincoln's View of Democratic Strategy." In right-hand column 'Letter of General Grant' and 'On the Chicago

President Lincoln and General Grant on Peace and War. Two column printed broadside. In left-hand column "Interview with the President. Mr. Lincoln's View of Democratic Strategy." In right-hand column 'Letter of General Grant' and 'On the Chicago Surrender One page 9.25 X 11.25inches: some foxing; pin holes at creases where folded; closed tears at margins, not affecting text. Np, August, 1864 E600-900 First Separate Printing, originally published as an article in The Grant County Herald, Wisconsin, as The Loyal Road to Peace and the Disloyal Road to Ruin President Lincoln on the Democratic Strategy.' Wisconsin state Governor Alexander William Randall interviewed Lincoln on August 19th, 1864 In this interview Lincoln chides the Democrats who wanted the 200,000 colored troops returned to the South where they would no doubt have been pressed into military service as part of a compromise truce agreement. Lincoln said that such a move would cost the Union the war.. "Abandon all the posts now garrisoned by black men, take 200 000 men from our side and put them in the battlefield or cornfield against us, and we would be compelled to abandon the war in three weeks.' Sabin 41157 Not recorded by Monaghan. See illustration