. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . - and Gen-eral Fremont in Missouri. In this also he hadthe mortification of feeling that he had nursedThe President at first took no notice, either the pinion that impelled the steel. The reputa-])ublicly or pri\ately, of this resolution, and it tion of General Fremont was the creation of. ponents was the resolutionwhich called for harmonyin the Cabinet; and al-though no method wasspecified by which such harmony could be at-tained, it was no secret that the conventionrequested, and, so far as its authority went,required, that the Cabinet sho
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . - and Gen-eral Fremont in Missouri. In this also he hadthe mortification of feeling that he had nursedThe President at first took no notice, either the pinion that impelled the steel. The reputa-])ublicly or pri\ately, of this resolution, and it tion of General Fremont was the creation of. ponents was the resolutionwhich called for harmonyin the Cabinet; and al-though no method wasspecified by which such harmony could be at-tained, it was no secret that the conventionrequested, and, so far as its authority went,required, that the Cabinet should be renderedhomogeneous by the dismissal of those mem-bers who were stigmatized as conservatives. was with something akin to consternation thatthe radical body of his supporter^ heard ofthe first change which occurred in his Cabinetafter the convention adjourned. The resigna-tion of Mr. Chase, whom the extreme radicalsregarded as in some sort their special repre-sentative in the Government, took them en-tirely by surprise. The demonstration made the Blairs. It was at their solicitation that thePresident appointed the Pathfinder a major-general in the regular army, and gave himcommand of the important department of Mis-souri. So late as the 24th of August, 1861,General Fremont relied upon MontgomeryBlair for all the support and ass
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