This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...temperaments that the most tactful control was necessary. Nicolay and Hay remark that in weaker hands than Lincoln's such a Cabinet would have proved a hot-bed of strife, while under him, it became a tower of strength. But, according to the lively disclosures of Gideon Welles' Diary, it did not fail of being a hot-bed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...temperaments that the most tactful control was necessary. Nicolay and Hay remark that in weaker hands than Lincoln's such a Cabinet would have proved a hot-bed of strife, while under him, it became a tower of strength. But, according to the lively disclosures of Gideon Welles' Diary, it did not fail of being a hot-bed of strife also. j It is impossible to appreciate the difficulty with which men in public life in 1861 came to understand that a man, who was but recently a second rate Illinois lawyer, had suddenly become the real Chief Magistrate of the United States. And it was favorable to misconception that Lincoln showed more than ordinary deliberateness, while he discussed with the Cabinet and the head of the army the situation at the Southern harbors. After the administration had lagged a month, Seward was convinced that the Government needed a Prime Minister, and opened formal arrangements for assuming that role. There are very few instances in which Cabinet officers have been bold enough to make formal demands of their chief; and this proposition that the President vest the general functions of his office in the Secretary of State stands by itself. On April 1, 1861, Seward transmitted to Lincoln a paper bearing the title, "Some Thoughts for the President's Consideration." Premising that a month had passed without determining upon an administration policy, either domestic or foreign, he ventured to offer his own ideas. With little appreciation of what the "irrepressible conflict" had come to, he proposed a domestic policy that should divert the people from the question of slavery to a broader one of union and patriotism; while in the foreign field he would inaugurate an ambitious movement against European intervention, to the extent...
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