The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . wOrleans, or Galveston. Filling up regiments is going on veryslowly. I said: Mr. President, you gave me permission to tell you when from the action of the Administration. He said hastily: You think we are wrong, do you? I said, Yes, in this: You are making this too much of aparty war. That perhaps is not the fault of the Administration, butthe result of political conditions. All the northern Governors areRepublicans, and they of course appoint only their Republicanf
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . wOrleans, or Galveston. Filling up regiments is going on veryslowly. I said: Mr. President, you gave me permission to tell you when from the action of the Administration. He said hastily: You think we are wrong, do you? I said, Yes, in this: You are making this too much of aparty war. That perhaps is not the fault of the Administration, butthe result of political conditions. All the northern Governors areRepublicans, and they of course appoint only their Republicanfriends as officers of regiments, and then the officers only recruitRepublicans. Now this war cannot go on as a party war: Youmust get the Democrats in it, and there are thousands of patrioticDemocrats who would go into it if they could see any opportunity onequal terms with Republicans. .... He said: There is meat in that, General, a favorite ex-pression of his, what is your suggestion? I said: Empower me to raise volunteers for the United Statesand to select the officers, and I will go to New England and raise a. From The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Ida M. Tarbell. LINCOLN IN 1861 From a photograph taken when he began to let his beard grow. This was the subjectof humorous comment and caricature by the press generally. (428) DEFIANCE, DISASTER, SORROW 429 division of 6,000 men in sixty days. If you will give me power toselect the officers I shall choose all Democrats. And if you putepaulets on their shoulders they will be as true to the country as Ihope I am. He said: Draw such an order as you want, but dont get meinto any scrape with the Governors about the appointments of theofficers if you can help it. The order was signed, the necessary funds were furnished thenext day, and I started for New England; in ninety days I had 6,000men enlisted, and was ordered to make preparations for an expedi-tion to Ship Island, and the last portion of that expedition sailedon the 2 5th of Febru
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