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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
outside of the department, without requiring the usual vouchers. To this resolution Mr. Lincoln replied by a message, in which he stated that the departments were full of clerks who betrayed the government, that under such circumstances irregular means could alone accomplish the desired object, and emphatically asserted his responsibility for the acts of his agent. The matter was then dropped. We have already had occasion to speak of the committee appointed by both houses on the 9th of December, 1861, to inquire into the conduct of the war. This committee, composed of senators and representatives, comprised some of the most prominent and radical members of the Republican party, who assumed this delicate mission at the time when the inaction of McClellan and the disaster of Ball's Bluff entirely absorbed the popular mind. We shall meet them again from time to time in the course of our narrative, to the latest period of the war. The laws passed during the extra session, however,