. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . ll beseen that these seven men represented a great variety ofpolitical sentiments and opinions. They did not alwaysagree. Lincoln sometimes facetiously referred to thecabinet as the Happy Family. By those who knew Seward and did not know Lincoln,it was supposed that the former would be virtually thePresident, and that beyond the signing of important pa-pers Lincoln would have very little to do with the shapingthe policy of the administration. Mr. Seward undertookto revise and re-write the inaugural address above de-scribed. Subsequently,
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . ll beseen that these seven men represented a great variety ofpolitical sentiments and opinions. They did not alwaysagree. Lincoln sometimes facetiously referred to thecabinet as the Happy Family. By those who knew Seward and did not know Lincoln,it was supposed that the former would be virtually thePresident, and that beyond the signing of important pa-pers Lincoln would have very little to do with the shapingthe policy of the administration. Mr. Seward undertookto revise and re-write the inaugural address above de-scribed. Subsequently, he mapped out a plan of admin-istrative operations for the President, volunteering totake the general direction of affairs, if this were requiredof him. It was not required of him, and they who hadexpected that Mr. Seward or anybody else would act asPresident in place of Lincoln were soon undeceived. Byhis vigor, firmness, and unshrinking determination, Lin-coln speedily showed the world that he, and not another,was the President of the United CHAPTER XIX. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. In the White House—Assembling of the Rebel Congress—Rebel Emis-saries Sent to Washington—A Vigorous Policy Clamored for—TheFirst Gun at Sumter—Great Excitement throughout the Republic—A Nation in Arms—Attack on the Sixth Massachusetts—NotableDeaths. WHEN he installed himself in the White House,the official residence of Presidents of the UnitedStates, Lincoln found that two lamentable featuresof affairs were really not wholly unobjectionable, fromone point of view. He was surrounded by hordes ofoffice-seekers ; the country was on the brink of , with his ready way of finding somethingencouraging, even in calamities, he said that if the peopleof the loyal States did not have implicit confidence in thestability of the Union and the government they wouldnot flock in such numbers to Washington to hunt forplaces under that government. And, although Buchan-ans Admin
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