Abraham Lincoln . f the Cabinet conferred with him, un-otficially tendering him from President Lincoln command otthe army. I look, said he, upon secession as anarchy. If I owned fourmillion slaves I would sacrifice them all for the Union, but how can 1draw my sword upon Virginia, my native StateT His beautiful home at Arlington overlooked a lovely landscape: thegleaming Potomac, green fields, the City of Washington, the statelyCapitol. He was patrician by birth and education, and cast his lotwith the slave ])ower. The Secessionists burned the bridges on the railroads leading northfrom Baltimor
Abraham Lincoln . f the Cabinet conferred with him, un-otficially tendering him from President Lincoln command otthe army. I look, said he, upon secession as anarchy. If I owned fourmillion slaves I would sacrifice them all for the Union, but how can 1draw my sword upon Virginia, my native StateT His beautiful home at Arlington overlooked a lovely landscape: thegleaming Potomac, green fields, the City of Washington, the statelyCapitol. He was patrician by birth and education, and cast his lotwith the slave ])ower. The Secessionists burned the bridges on the railroads leading northfrom Baltimore, that no more troops might reach Washington. Theywere doing their utmost to bring about the secession of in the departments at Washington appointed from the SouthernStates were hastening from the city. Citizens, under the command ofMajor David Hunter, were guarding the White House and the executive mansion, through the weary hours, President Lincolncalmly performed his arduous ADMINISTERING THE OATH TO CITIZEN SOLDIERS. 254 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. It was a joyful hour in Washington when the Massachusetts Eighth Regiment and the New York Seventh reached that cit3^ Their presence guaranteed the safety of the Capitol. In Illinois, troops from Anril 25 Chicago took possession of Cairo. The occupation of that pointgreatly offended John M. Johnson, of Paducah, Ky. He had beenelected to the Senate of that State, and deemed it his duty to send asolemn protest to the President. If I had suspected, wrote Mr. Lincoln in reply, that Cairo, inIllinois, was in Dr. Johnsons Kentucky Senatorial district, I would havethought twice before sending troops to Cairo. () By the prompt arrival of troops in Washington, and the occupationof Cairo, the plans of the Secessionists were overthrown. NOTES TO CHAPTER XHI. () L. E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln, p. 66. (-) Ibid., p. 72. (^) William Cabell Rives was born in Nelson County, Va., 1793. He wa
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