Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Lincoln” in chapter 29 of Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House:
...e have since gained more than we lost.
I have been told, I added, that Judge Bates doubted the constitutionality of the proclamation.
He never expressed such an opinion in my hearing, replied Mr. Lincoln . No member of the Cabinet ever dissented from the policy, in any conversation with me.
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