...ng withheld his retirement that Halleck might arrive East and fall heir to his place. Speaking of Halleck, a day or two before he arrived in Washington Stanton came to caution me against trusting Halleck , who was, he said, probably the greatest scoundrel and most barefaced villain in America; he said that he was totally destitute of principle, and that in the Almaden Quicksilver case he had convicted...