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He had a way of pretending to assure his visitor that in the choice of his 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
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