. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . he had al-ready sent /lis nomination to the Senate. Fes-senden leaped to his feet, exclaiming, Youmust withdraw it. I cannot accept. If youdecline, said the President, you must do itin open day, for I shall not recall the nomina-tion. We talked about it for some time,said the President, and he went away lessdecided in his refusal. The nomination was instantly confirmed,the executive session lasting no more than aminute. It gave immediate and widespreadsatisfaction. There seemed to be no differenceof opinion in regard to Mr. Fessenden; theonl
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . he had al-ready sent /lis nomination to the Senate. Fes-senden leaped to his feet, exclaiming, Youmust withdraw it. I cannot accept. If youdecline, said the President, you must do itin open day, for I shall not recall the nomina-tion. We talked about it for some time,said the President, and he went away lessdecided in his refusal. The nomination was instantly confirmed,the executive session lasting no more than aminute. It gave immediate and widespreadsatisfaction. There seemed to be no differenceof opinion in regard to Mr. Fessenden; theonly fear was that he would not accept. Hisfirst impulse was to decline; but being besiegedall day by the flattering solicitations of hisfriends, it was impossible for him to persist inrefusing. The President was equally surprisedand gratified at the enthusiastic and generalapproval the nomination had met with. Hesaid : ^ it is very singular, considering that this appoint-ment is so popular when made, that no one ever THE RESIGNATION OF MR. CHASE, 297. WILLIAM PITT (AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) mentioned his name to me for that place. Think-ing over the matter, two or three points occurred tome : first, his thorough acquaintance with the busi-ness; as chairman of the Senate Committee ofFinance he knows as much of this special subjectasMr. Chase ; he possesses a national reputation andthe confidence of the country ; he is a radical with-out the petulant and vicious fretfulness of manyradicals. There are reasons why this appointmentought to be very agreeable to him. For some timepast he has been running in rather a pocket of badluck; the failure to renominate Mr. Hamlin makespossible a contest between him and the Vice-Presi-dent, the most popular man in Maine, for the elec-tion which is now imminent. A little while ago inthe Senate you know Trumbull told him his ill-temper had left him no friends, but this suddenand most gratifying manifestation of good feelingover his a
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