Nothing so Uncommon as Common Sense--Cases Illustrative--Efforts among Secessionists and Disloyalists to Close the Provost-Court--President Lincoln's Answer--Secretary Cameron's Answer--Applications to Attorney-General Bates and Postmaster-General Blair--Conference between President Lincoln and Judge Freese--Between Bates, Cameron, and Freese--General McClellan Brought in--His Aid-de-Camp Calls upon General Montgomery--The Order and Wishes of General McClellan--Final Conference between General Montgomery and Judge Freese--The Result--How Received--What would have been the Results of a Different Policy CHAPT XVII. FACTS, FIGURES, AND FAIR INFERENCES. What the Calculations of Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet were at the Opening of Hostilities--How and why they were Mistaken in these Calculations--Facts and Figures from Official Documents to Substantiate Statements CHAPT XVIII. WHY THE SOUTH HAS NOT DENOUNCED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. What Keeps the Party Alive--What the Final End of this Republic CHAPT XIX. HOW COMES IT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WITH SUCH A WEIGHT OF SIN UPON IT, CAN STILL KEEP ALIVE This Question Fully and Fairly Answered CHAPT XX. FROM ALL YOUR STUDY OF HISTORY, WHAT DEDUCTIONS DO YOU DRAW AS TO THE FINAL DECLINE AND FALL, IF SUCH A THING IS EVER TO BE, OF THIS REPUBLIC? This Question Answered by a Review of the History of Other Republics CHAPT XXI. THE SPARTAN REPUBLIC--ITS RISE AND FALL, AND WHY. THE ATHENIAN REPUBLIC, AND THE REASON OF ITS FALL. THE THEBAN REPUBLIC, AND THE CAUSES OF ITS DESTRUCTION. These Lessons Applied to the American Republic CHAPT XXII. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC--ITS RISE, GLORY, DECLINE, AND FALL, AND THE REASON THEREOF. How the Facts of its History may Serve as Lessons to Ourselves--Our Immediate Danger, and what the Remedy [Illustration: 0022] SECRETS OF THE LATE REBELLION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. EXPLANATIONS AND PLEDGES.