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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Iv. (search)
VI.
On the evening of February 4th, 1864, I went to Washington.
Shortly after noon of the following day, I rang the bell at Mr. Lovejoy's residence on Fifteenth Street. To my sorrow, I found him very ill; but it was hoped by his friends that he was then improving.
Though very feeble, he insisted upon seeing me, and calling for writing materials, sat up in bed to indite a note introducing me to the President.
This, handed to me open; I read.
One expression I have not forgotten, it was s oved, and for a change he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where, it will be remembered, he had a relapse, and died, universally mourned as one of the truest and most faithful of our statesmen.
Mr. Lincoln did not hear from him directly after he left Washington.
Through a friend I learned by letter that he was lying at the point of death.
This intelligence I communicated to the President the same evening, in the vestibule of the White House,--meeting him on his way to the War Department.
He was dee
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Vii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xiv. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xvi. (search)
Xvi.
Wednesday, March 2d, I had an unusually long and interesting sitting from the President.
I invited my friend, Mr. Sinclair, of New York, who was in Washington, to be present.
The news had recently been received of the disaster under General Seymour in Florida.
Many newspapers openly charged the President with having sent the expedition with primary reference to restoring the State in season to secure its vote at the forthcoming Baltimore Convention. Mr. Lincoln was deeply wounded by these charges.
He referred to them during the sitting; and gave a simple and truthful statement of the affair, which was planned, if I remember rightly, by General Gillmore.
A few days afterward, an editorial appeared in the New York Tribune, which was known not to favor Mr. Lincoln's renomination, entirely exonerating him from all blame.
I took the article to him in his study, and he expressed much gratification at its candor.
It was, perhaps, in connection with the newspaper attacks, tha
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xviii. (search)
Xviii.
General Grant reached Washington, after his nomination to the Lieutenant-Generalship, the evening of March 8th, 1864.
His reception at Willard's Hotel, unaccompanied by staff or escort, was an event never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. Later in the evening he attended the Presidential levee, entering the reception-room unannounced.
He was recognized and welcomed by the President with the utmost cordiality, and the distinguished stranger was soon nearly overwhelmed by th e Hon. Mr. Lovejoy, and several officers of the army, and was very brief and simple, as became the character of each of the illustrious chief actors.
On the day following General Grant visited the Army of the Potomac, and upon his return to Washington he made preparations to leave immediately for the West.
At the close of a consultation with the President and Secretary of War, he was informed that Mrs. Lincoln expected his presence the same evening at a military dinner she proposed to give
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxi. (search)
Xxi.
Judge Bates, the Attorney-General, was one day very severe upon the modern ideal school of art, as applied to historic characters and events.
He instanced in sculpture, Greenough's Washington, in the Capitol grounds, which, he said, was a very good illustration of the heathen idea of Jupiter Tonans, but was the farthest possible remove from any American's conception of the Father of his Country.
Powell's painting in the Rotunda, De Soto discovering the Mississippi, and Mills's equestrian statue of Jackson, in front of the President's House, shared in his sarcastic condemnation.
He quoted from an old English poet — Creech, I think he said — with much unction:--
Whatever contradicts my sense I hate to see, and can but disbelieve.
Genius and talent, said he, on another occasion, are rarely found combined in one individual.
I requested his definition of the distinction.
Genius, he replied, conceives; talent executes.
Referring to Mr. Lincoln's never-failing fund of
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxiii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxiv. (search)
Xxiv.
Mr. George Thompson, the English anti-slavery orator, delivered an address in the House of Representatives, to a large audience, April 6th, 1864.
Among the distinguished persons present was President Lincoln, who was greatly interested.
The following morning, Mr. Thompson and party, consisting of Rev. John Pierpont, Oliver Johnson, formerly President of the Anti-Slavery Society of New York, and the Hon. Lewis Clephane, of Washington, called at the White House.
The President was alone when their names were announced, with the exception of myself.
Dropping all business, he ordered the party to be immediately admitted.
Greeting them very cordially, the gentlemen took seats, and Mr. Thompson commenced conversation by referring to the condition of public sentiment in England in regard to the great conflict the nation was passing through.
He said the aristocracy and the money interest were desirous of seeing the Union broken up, but that the great heart of the masses beat i