Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by . t I at once assured him that,while I would not support his election, I would earn-estly oppose any effort to force him into the corruptconciliation of venal legislators. He thanked me, andadded: I can rely upon you, and I will now dismissthe thieves without ceremony. The movement failed,and he was elected by the united vote of his party, whileI voted for the late William D. Kelley. No man has sostrongly impressed his personality upon the
Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by . t I at once assured him that,while I would not support his election, I would earn-estly oppose any effort to force him into the corruptconciliation of venal legislators. He thanked me, andadded: I can rely upon you, and I will now dismissthe thieves without ceremony. The movement failed,and he was elected by the united vote of his party, whileI voted for the late William D. Kelley. No man has sostrongly impressed his personality upon the politics of 154 LINCOLN AND MEN OF WAR-TIMES. Pennsylvania as has Simon Cameron, and the politicalpower he organized is as potent in the State to-day as atany time during his life. He was one of the few menwho voluntarily retired from the Senate when he con Idhave continued his service during life. He survived hisretirement a full dozen years; his intercourse mellowedinto the gentlest relations with old-time friends and foes,and in the ripeness of more than fourscore and ten sum-mers and in peaceful resignation he slept the dreamlesssleep of the <Fhoto by Brady, Washington.) EDWIN M. STANTON, 1865. LINCOLN AND STANTON. OF all the men intimately connected with AbrahamLincoln during our civil war, Edwin M. Stantonpresented the strangest medley of individual was a man of whom two histories might be writtenas widely diverging as night and day, portraying him asworthy of eminent praise and as worthy of scorchingcensure, and yet both absolutely true. His dominantquality was his heroic mould. He could be heroic to adegree that seemed almost superhuman, and yet at timessubmissive to the very verge of cowardice. Like Lin-coln, he fully trusted no man; but, unlike Lincoln, hedistrusted all, and I doubt whether any man prominentlyconnected with the government gave confidence to sofew as did Stanton. He in turn trusted and hated nearlyevery general prominent in the
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