Chapter 12 No.12

The President's 22d of February Speech.-The Account thereof of One behind the Scenes.-Hopes and Fears of the Democracy.

Washington, February 23, 1866.

I don't know; but there is a still small voice within me wich whispers, "All is well!" The delusive phantom, Hope, may be playin false with me. The wish may be paternal parient to the thought,