. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . paignmanagers. He gave $i,ooo to the Pennsylvania StateRepublican Committee, which was acknowledged as fol-lows : Harrisburg, July 24, 1864. Dear Sirs: Our friend. General Moorhead, writes that you will contribute one thousand dollars to me for the use of the State Committee, as several other good Union men have already done. For this liberality please accept my thanks. Will you send a check for the amount or shall I draw on your house? Very truly yours, ^ , ^ Simon Cameron. Jay Cooke and Company. In judging Jay Cookes course at this time it is to bere
. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . paignmanagers. He gave $i,ooo to the Pennsylvania StateRepublican Committee, which was acknowledged as fol-lows : Harrisburg, July 24, 1864. Dear Sirs: Our friend. General Moorhead, writes that you will contribute one thousand dollars to me for the use of the State Committee, as several other good Union men have already done. For this liberality please accept my thanks. Will you send a check for the amount or shall I draw on your house? Very truly yours, ^ , ^ Simon Cameron. Jay Cooke and Company. In judging Jay Cookes course at this time it is to beremembered that the bond between Ohio men is per-sistent and strong and that the personal relations of theChases and Cookes were unusually friendly and the financier was open, straightforward andof the largest views, innocent of all knowledge ofpractical politics. He studied the war on its financialside and looked at it as a financial problem. SecretaryChase standing before him as a greater figure than > > DC. FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR 367 those who were performing deeds better calculated toquicken the pulses of the great body of the were many reasons for Chases failure to winthe honor which he so much coveted, but which neitherhe nor his friends under the circumstances could openlyclaim for him. One reason was an intrinsic defect inhis nature. It was not better illustrated anywhere thanin his dealings with Mr. Cooke. It was well describedby Zelotes Fuller, the old editor of the United StatesJournal of Philadelphia, when he wrote about this time:Although I have never seen Mr. Chase or receivedfrom him a single line I am much prepossessed in hisfavor and would like to see him on the road to the presi-dential chair. Who knows but that one day Jay Cookewill be a member of his cabinet? . . There is butone thing in him which I do not like, and that is heseems to care too much for his enemies and too little forhis friends, and apparently would go farth
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