. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . he man who gave such orders oughtto be hanged on a gallows higher than Hamans. Here Secretary Thompson interposed to rebuke the insolenceof so new a man in the cabinet. Mr. Thompson, said Mr. Stanton, in reply, I have been herelong enough to find out that you have stolen nearly a million ofIndian bonds, and expect to stay here till I see you punished for it. Then the tempest rose and raged till midnight, when the meet-ing broke up. The next morning Cobb, Floyd, and Thompson re-signed. In a single night Stanton broke the conspiracy in
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . he man who gave such orders oughtto be hanged on a gallows higher than Hamans. Here Secretary Thompson interposed to rebuke the insolenceof so new a man in the cabinet. Mr. Thompson, said Mr. Stanton, in reply, I have been herelong enough to find out that you have stolen nearly a million ofIndian bonds, and expect to stay here till I see you punished for it. Then the tempest rose and raged till midnight, when the meet-ing broke up. The next morning Cobb, Floyd, and Thompson re-signed. In a single night Stanton broke the conspiracy in the cabinetwhich was killing his feeble old friend. There were now two honestmen in the cabinet—Stanton and Holt. Through their influence,Gen. John A. Dix was put at the head of the treasury.^ There is a reason to believe, and I for one do believe, said thefriend here quoted, that but for the bold stand taken by Mr. Stantonon that memorable evening Mr. Lincoln never would have been in-augurated in Washington. The knives of the assassins were already 231. U. S. SENATOR RICHARD YATES^ ILLINOISEX-GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS Sketches and State Secrets whetted, and he would inevitably have been murdered. But theactive traitors being driven from the cabinet, General Scott collecteda few soldiers and marines, to the number of about one thousand,and secured the peaceful inauguration of the new President. When the Buchanan cabinet dissolved, Stanton went back to hislaw practise. Nine months later Mr. Lincoln sent for him and askedhim to be his Secretary of War. He defended his action on theground that he wanted Stanton not for his politics, but for hispatriotism and power.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Knew Stanton Well The first time I was in Washington was in 1863, and I spentabout six months as clerk in the War Department, said A. , one of Californias multi-millionaires and the owner andproprietor of San Franciscos famous Palace Hotel, to a Star re-porter at the Normandie. I came at
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