n which a considerable measure of aristocratic sympathy
still lingered. Andrew and his friends were like the men of old who
having known Saul before time, and beholding him prophesying, asked 'Is
Saul also among the prophets?'"(4)

But Andrew stood well outside the party cabals that were hatched at
Washington. He and his gave the conspirators a hearing from a reason
widely different from any of theirs. They distrusted the Executive
Committee. The argument that had swept the Committee for the moment off
its feet filled the stern New Englanders with scorn. They were prompt to
deny any sympathy with the armistice movement.(5) As Andrew put it, the
chief danger of the hour was the influence of the Executive Committee
on the President, whom he persisted in considering a weak man; the chief
duty of the hour was to "rescue" Lincoln, or in some other way to "check
the peace movement of the Republican managers."(6) if it were fairly
certain that this could be effected only by putting the conspiracy
through, Andrew would come in. But could he be clear in his own mind
that this was the thing to do? While he hesitated, Jaquess and Gilmore
did their last small part in American history and left the stage. They
made a tour of the Northern States explaining to the various governors
the purposes of their mission to Richmond, and reporting in full their
audience with Davis and the impressions they had formed.(7) This was a
point in favor of Lincoln--as Andrew thought. On the other hand, there
were the editorials of The Times. As late as the twenty-fourth of
August, the day before the Washington conference, The Times asserted
that the President would waive all the objects for which the war had
been fought, including Abolition, if any proposition of peace should
come that embraced the integrity of the Union. To be sure, this was not
consistent with the report of Jaquess and Gilmore and their statement
of terms actually set down by Lincoln. And yet--it came from the
Administration organ edited by the chairman of the Executive Committee.
Was "rescue" of the President anything more than a dream?

It was just here that Lincoln intervened and revolutionized the whole
situation. With what tense interest Andrew must have waited for reports
of that conference held at Washington on the twenty-fifth. And with what
delight he must have received them! The publication on the twenty-sixth
of the sweeping repudiation of the negotiation policy; the reasse