eligion did not change after his entrance on the presidency.
Want of space forbids further details, but it would be as easy to prove from precisely the same sort of evidence that Lincoln's character and conduct provoked the bitterest censure from a very great number of the most distinguished of his co-workers in his great achievements, among whom may be named Greely, Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Trumbull, Zach.
Chandler, Cameron, Fred. Douglas, Beacher, Fremont, Ben. Wade, Winter Davis and Wendell Phillips, while the most bitter and contemptuous and persistent of all Lincoln's critics were Chase, his Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice, and Stanton, known ever since as his great War Secretary.
The testimony submitted above seems to show that Lincoln was habitually indecent in his conversation—that he was guilty of grossly indecent, and yet more grossly immoral, conduct in connection with his satire called the First Chronicle of Reuben; that he was an infidel, and was, till he b
r's S. C. Rifles, Sketch of, 157.
Page, Captain, Thomas Jefferson, Sketch of life and deeds of, 219.
Parker, Captain W. H., 137.
Parksley, Monument at, unveiled, 60.
Peace Congress of 1861, 70.
Peace Conference in 1865, 374.
Pegram Colonel W. R. J. 91.
Pegram, General, John, killed, 45.
Pendleton, General W. N., 52.
Perry, General E. A., 194.
Peters, Colonel, Winfield, of Baltimore, 26.
Peters Colonel W. E.. 273.
Petersburg. Battles before, in 1865, 28.
Phillips, Wendell, 368.
Pickett, General G E., 143, 208.
Poindexter, Charles, 334.
Point Pleasant, Battle of, 171.
Pollard Mrs. Rose, 335.
Poore, Ben Perley, 368.
Porter, Commodore D., 144.
Powell, Colonel, Wm. H.
Preston, Wm., 295.
Price, Dr. Henry M., 38.
Purcell Battery, Gallantry of, at Cedar Run, 89.
Quincey, Josiah, 65.
Ramseur, General S. D., killed, 7.
Reprisal or retaliation in war, 270, 314.
Richards, Major E. A., Address of, 253.
Richmond, Did General Lee counse