. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson . als, cooperatedwith them, slandered and misrepresented the President,and was every way mischievous. The President assented, but asked what could be done?I told him the Intelligencer was respectable and able, buthad its infirmities and weak owners, was opposed by itsrival, the Chronicle, owned by Radicals and non-supportersof the Administration. He asked what I thought of Hans-com of the Republican. I told him I had no confidence inhim whatever. The President remarked that the same washis opinion, that he considered him
. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson . als, cooperatedwith them, slandered and misrepresented the President,and was every way mischievous. The President assented, but asked what could be done?I told him the Intelligencer was respectable and able, buthad its infirmities and weak owners, was opposed by itsrival, the Chronicle, owned by Radicals and non-supportersof the Administration. He asked what I thought of Hans-com of the Republican. I told him I had no confidence inhim whatever. The President remarked that the same washis opinion, that he considered him a mercenary in themarket. That the Radicals in Congress intended to attack theExecutive and the Judiciary he had no doubt, and withthem the Constitution itself, by undermining, if they could,the distinctive rights of the States. END OF VOLUME II < ■ I. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY fltbe fltoecjftDe pre^S <£ambri&oe 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1909, AND I91O, BY EDGAR T. WELLESCOPYRIGHT, I9I I, BY EDGAR T. WELLES AND HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October iqn the ::. public lib:7C3060A ASTOR, LE:TILDEN POUNDSR 1934 L DIARY OFGIDEON WELLES IN THREE VOLUMESVOLUME II THE MEW YOK*fUBUC LIBRARY ■I.—»wj
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