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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 16. (search)
s advisers he was free to act as his judgment dictated, although David Davis, acting as his manager at the Chicago convention, had negotiated with the Indiana and Pennsylvania delegations, and assigned places in the cabinet to Simon Cameron and Caleb Smith, besides making other arrangements which Mr. Lincoln was expected to ratify. Of this he was undoubtedly aware, although in answer to a letter from Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, congratulating him on his nomination, he said, Letter, May 21st, 1860, Ms. It is indeed most grateful to my feelings, that the responsible position assigned me comes without conditions. out of regard to the dignity of the exalted station he was about to occupy, he was not as free in discussing the matter of his probable appointments with some of his personal friends as they had believed he would be. In one or two instances, I remember, the latter were offended at his seeming disregard of the claims of old friendship. My advice was not asked for on such g
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
m in the federal court not being terminated......April 28, 1859 Severe frosts throughout the State destroy most of the wheat......June 5, 1859 Governor Dennison, on the requisition of Governor Letcher, refuses to arrest Owen Brown and Francis Merriam, indicted in Virginia for acts at Harper's Ferry......March 8, 1860 Tornado on the Ohio River from Louisville, Ky., to Marietta; 150 lives lost and property destroyed to the amount of $1,000,000. Great damage done in Cincinnati......May 21, 1860 Population, 2,339,511; 57.4 to square mile......1860 United States calls for thirteen regiments from Ohio......April 15, 1861 Law authorizing the acceptance of ten regiments beyond required number, and providing $500,000 to support them......1861 Two regiments organized at Columbus and sent forward without arms or uniforms to Washington......April 18, 1861 $1,000,000 appropriated to prepare the State for war......1861 Law declaring the property of volunteers free from ex