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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 33. (search)
e assented to this. The substantial accuracy of Mr. Blair's report is confirmed by the memorandum of the samue the Monroe Doctrine from its present peril. If Mr. Blair felt elated at having so quickly made a convert ofr ideal of national ethics. His whole interest in Mr. Blair's mission lay in the rebel despondency it discloseof their resistance. Mr. Davis had, indeed, given Mr. Blair a letter, to be shown to President Lincoln, statiimpossible attitude. In reply the President wrote Mr. Blair on January 18 the following note: Sir: You e people of our one common country. With this, Mr. Blair returned to Richmond, giving Mr. Davis such excuseer hand, was it longer possible to remain silent. Mr. Blair's first visit had created general interest; when nference on the basis of his note of January 18 to Mr. Blair. The commissioners, having meantime reconsidered ready committed themselves. At the first hint of Blair's Mexican project, however, Mr. Lincoln firmly discl
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 34. (search)
Chapter 34. Blair Chase chief justice Speed Succeeds Bates McCulloch Succeeds Fessenden resignation of Mr. Usher Lincoln's offer of $400,000,000 the second inaugural Lincoln's literary rank his last speech The principal concession in the Baltimore platform made by the friends of the administration to their opponents, the radicals, was the resolution which called for harmony in the cabinet. The President at first took no notice, either publicly or privately, of this resolution, which was in effect a recommendation that he dismiss those members of his council who were stigmatized as conservatives; and the first cabinet change which actually took place after the adjournment of the convention filled the radical body of his supporters with dismay, since they had looked upon Mr. Chase as their special representative in the government. The publication of the Wade-Davis manifesto still further increased their restlessness, and brought upon Mr. Lincoln a powerful p