The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera . asculine intel-lect, learning, and experience of the right sort, and physicalpower of labor and endurance, so well as he. I know he has great confidence in you, always sustaining,so far as I have observed, your opinions against any differ-ing ones. You will lay me under one more obligation if you can andwill use your influence to remove General Camerons objec-tion. I scarcely


The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera . asculine intel-lect, learning, and experience of the right sort, and physicalpower of labor and endurance, so well as he. I know he has great confidence in you, always sustaining,so far as I have observed, your opinions against any differ-ing ones. You will lay me under one more obligation if you can andwill use your influence to remove General Camerons objec-tion. I scarcely need tell you I have nothing personal in this,having never seen or heard of Colonel Meigs until about theend of last March. But that he could appoint arbitrarily is certain from thefollowing letter: . . You must make a job of it, and provide a placefor the bearer of this, Elias Wampole. Make a job of it withthe collector and have it done. You can do it for me, andyou must. In spite of the terrible pressure brought to bear upon himby the place-hunters; in spite of the frequent dissatisfactionhis appointments gave, and the abuse the disappointed heapedupon him, he rarely lost his patience, rarely was anything but.


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