Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by . mier of his administration, with Weedthe power behind the Premier, often stronger than thePremier himself, and yet hold Horace Greeley evenwithin the ragged edges of the party lines, and the manwho could call Simon Cameron to his Cabinet in Penn-sylvania without alienating Governor Curtin, and whocould remove Cameron from his Cabinet without alien-ating Cameron, would naturally be accepted as a man ofmuch more than ordinary political sag
Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by . mier of his administration, with Weedthe power behind the Premier, often stronger than thePremier himself, and yet hold Horace Greeley evenwithin the ragged edges of the party lines, and the manwho could call Simon Cameron to his Cabinet in Penn-sylvania without alienating Governor Curtin, and whocould remove Cameron from his Cabinet without alien-ating Cameron, would naturally be accepted as a man ofmuch more than ordinary political sagacity. Indeed, Ihave never known one who approached Lincoln in thepeculiar faculty of holding antagonistic elements to hisown support, and maintaining close and often apparentlyconfidential relations with each without offense to theother. This is the more remarkable from the fact thatLincoln was entirely without training in political man-agement. I remember on one occasion, when there wasmuch concern felt about a political contest in Pennsyl-vania, lie summoned half a do/en or more PennsylvaniaRepublicans to a conference at the White House. When 76 •. LINCOLNS HOME IN CHILDHOOD.
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