...periors, I make them my study, and conform my conduct to them as if they were my own. The President has only to tell me what he wants done, and I will do it. I was hurt, outraged, and insulted at Mr. Stanton 's public arraignment of my motives and actions, at his endorsing General Halleck's insulting and offensive dispatch, and his studied silence, when the press accused me of all sorts of base motives, e...