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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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es. There was much dissatisfaction with Mr. Cameron, Secretary ofWar. He had made extravagant contracts. The inactivity of thearmy was attributed partly to a lack of energy in the War Depart-ment. The time had come for a chano^e. His resiOTation was ac-cepted, and he was sent as Minister to Kussia, Whom should thePresident appoint in his stead? Those who knew what service EdwinM. Stanton had rendered the country when in Buchanans Cabinet—how true he had been to the Union; how he had confronted JohnB. Floyd, Jacob Thompson, Howell Cobb, and the other conspirators—presented his name to the President. Edwin M. Stanton! Was itnot he who treated Mr. Lincoln rudely in Cincinnati ? (see p. 162).Would the President be willing to appoint a man to a responsible posi-tion with whom he must have daily conferences, who had all but in-sulted him on a former occasion ? Yes. He would appoint him. True,Mr. Stanton was rude, and had a quick temper—could be hard, cold. 296 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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EDWIN M. STANTON. insulting; but the life of the nation was at stake, and he would usehim in his effort to save the country. Are you going to be Secretary of War? It was an old-timefriend who put the question to Mr. Stanton. Yes. What will you do? The friend had in mind the scene betweenLincoln and Stanton at Cincinnati. Do ? I intend to accomplish three things: I will make LincolnPresident of the United States; I will force that man McClellanto fight or throw up; and last, but not least, I will pick LorenzoThomas up with a pair of tongs and drop him out of the nearestwindow. () Mr. Stanton had come to the conclusion that McClellan was ignoring WINTER OF 1863. 297 the authority of his superior—that his appointments were his favoritesand pets, who were ready to subserve his personal interests and furtherhis aspirations, Lorenzo Tliomas was adjutant-general of the army. Stanton, how-ever, did not pick him up with a pair of tongs, for he remained in officethrough the war. General Georg

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