. The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls . st one or two made me a littleuncomfortable, but I came at length to look for a regu-lar installment of this kind of correspondence in everyweeks mail, and up to inaugTiration day I was in con-stant receipt of such letters, but they have ceased togive me any apprehension. The friend expressed sur-prise at this, but Lincoln replied in his peculiar way, There is nothing like getting used to things. The morning of March 4 found the new Presidentstill in doubt as to who were to be in his cabinet, forSeward, whom he had depended upon from the first
. The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls . st one or two made me a littleuncomfortable, but I came at length to look for a regu-lar installment of this kind of correspondence in everyweeks mail, and up to inaugTiration day I was in con-stant receipt of such letters, but they have ceased togive me any apprehension. The friend expressed sur-prise at this, but Lincoln replied in his peculiar way, There is nothing like getting used to things. The morning of March 4 found the new Presidentstill in doubt as to who were to be in his cabinet, forSeward, whom he had depended upon from the first,had taken offense because Chase was to be Secretaryof the Treasury, and he was now declining to serveas Secretary of State. At the last moment, and afterthe ceremony of the inauguration was over, Lincolnpersuaded Seward to change his mind, and the cabi-net list was complete. William H. Seward of NewYork was to be Secretary of State; Salmon P. Chaseof Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury; Simon Cameronof Pennsylvania, Secretary of War; Edward Bates of. THE PRESIDENCY 89 Missouri, Attorney-General; Gideon Welles of Con-necticut, Secretary of the Navy; Caleb B. Smith ofIndiana, Secretary of the Interior; Montgomery Blairof Maryland, Postmaster-General. Of these sevenmen, upon whose loyal support and wise advice thesuccess of his administration as President was solargely to depend, he had no real knowledge. The firstfour were chosen because in the nominating conventionat Chicago they had been his prominent rivals for thepresidency. Bates of Missouri, and Blair of Maryland,he had chosen because they were from slave Statesand so could help him in the effort that he knew mustbe made to keep the slave States that bordered uponMason and Dixons Line loyal to the Union. Amongthem all, not one was his personal friend ; and yet itwas to them he must look for guidance in the strugglehe was now entering. At noon, James Buchanan, the retiring President,worn and broken with the cares of state, and
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