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rivate diary, Aug. 15 (Warden, p. 452), Mr. Secretary Chase writes: Went to War Department. Stanto reality to control him. Writing Sept. 2, Mr. Chase (Schuckers, p. 448) says that he saw Gen. Ha was current, the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Chase, called upon me with a protest, signed by hi Potomac from Richmond, therein differing from Chase and Stanton. The object in bringing that armymmunition, guns, provisions, and stores. Mr. Chase then refers to the visit of Gen. Marcy at Wa. P. Chase, p. 447). After Pope's defeat Mr. Chase says: The President . . . himself gave tSecretary of War (ibid. p. 450). Aug. 29 Mr. Chase writes: The Secretary of War called on mtc., of S. P. Chase, p. 456). On Aug. 30 Mr. Chase states that he and Mr. Stanton prepared and ent of McClellan (ibid. p. 456). Sept. 1 Mr. Chase states: On suggestion of Judge Bates, the re cabinet meeting on Sept. 2, as given by Secretaries Chase and Welles. When Mr. Stanton had succee[1 more...]
thoroughly by those to whom the President showed it, and it cannot be doubted that a general inability to appreciate the sincere motives in which it was written did much to determine the future conduct of the administration towards McClellan. Mr. Chase, with startling innocence of mind, avows (Warden, p. 440) that on July 22 he urged Mr. Lincoln to remove McClellan, on the ground that I did not regard Gen. McClellan as loyal to the administration, although I did not question his general loyalty to the country. This is the confession of a motive in the conduct of a great war which is universally regarded as infamous. It is an avowal that the controlling consideration of such leaders as Mr. Chase, in the use of the blood and treasure of the people, was the supremacy of party, and not the success of country. Neither the President nor Gen. McClellan had any such impure ideas. And it is beyond doubt that the radical difference between his own views and those of the self-seeking men