278 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Northern "fanaticism" by showing that the Pro-slavery men 

 were the real fanatics, if fanaticism meant flying in the face 

 of the moral sense of the whole civilized world. We neither 

 of us afterwards recurred to the subject ; but I have little 

 doubt that it was anxiety for the fate of the South, and not as 

 you suppose his " being very fully occupied with correspon- 

 dents nearer home," that prevented him from answering you 

 in 1863. 



On looking further through our correspondence, I see that 

 he says himself that he was a native of Virginia. " Hinc 

 ilia, lachrymce." Who can wonder that, under the circum- 

 stances, the terrible calamities of the war pressed with double 

 weight upon his mind ? 



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B. D. WALSH. 



