Johnston's negotiations look to this end." After the cabinet meeting last night, General Grant started for North Carolina, to direct operations against Johnston's army.
EDWIN M.STANTON, Secretary of War.
Here followed the terms, and Mr.Stanton's ten reasons for rejecting them.
The publication of this bulletin by authority was an outrage on me, for Mr.Stanton had failed to communicate to me in advance, as was his duty, the purpose of the Administration to limit our negotiations to purely military matters; but, on the contrary, at Savannah he had authorized me to control all matters, civil and military.
By this bulletin, he implied that I had previously been furnished with a copy of his dispatch of March 3d to General Grant, which was not so; and he gave warrant to the impression, which was sown broadcast, that I might be bribed by banker's gold to permit Davis to escape.

Under the influence of this, I wrote General Grant the following letter of April 28th, which has been published in the Proceedings of the Committee on the Conduct of the War.
I regarded this bulletin of Mr.Stanton as a personal and official insult, which I afterward publicly resented.
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN THE FIELD, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, April 28,1865.
Lieutenant-General U.S.GRANT, General-in-Chief, Washington, D.C.
GENERAL: Since you left me yesterday, I have seen the New York Times of the 24th, containing a budget of military news, authenticated by the signature of the Secretary of War, Hon.

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Stanton, which is grouped in such a way as to give the public very erroneous impressions.

It embraces a copy of the basis of agreement between myself and General Johnston, of April 18th, with comments, which it will be time enough to discuss two or three years hence, after the Government has experimented a little more in the machinery by which power reaches the scattered people of the vast country known as the "South." In the mean time, however, I did think that my rank (if not past services) entitled me at least to trust that the Secretary of War would keep secret what was communicated for the use of none but the cabinet, until further inquiry could be made, instead of giving publicity to it along with documents which I never saw, and drawing therefrom inferences wide of the truth.

I never saw or had furnished me a copy of President Lincoln's dispatch to you of the 3d of March, nor did Mr.Stanton or any human being ever convey to me its substance, or any thing like it.