Abraham Lincoln: a history . at by a cautious dis-crimination, the number so discharged would notbe large enough to do any considerable mischief inany event, would relieve distress in at least somemeritorious cases, and would give me some relieffrom an intolerable pressure. I shall be glad, there-fore, to have your cheerful assent to the dischargeof those whose names I may send, which I will onlydo with circumspection. In answer to the aboveletter, Stanton, on the next day, wrote: Mr. Pres-ident : Your order for the discharge of any prison-ers of war will be cheerfully and promptly obeyed. As
Abraham Lincoln: a history . at by a cautious dis-crimination, the number so discharged would notbe large enough to do any considerable mischief inany event, would relieve distress in at least somemeritorious cases, and would give me some relieffrom an intolerable pressure. I shall be glad, there-fore, to have your cheerful assent to the dischargeof those whose names I may send, which I will onlydo with circumspection. In answer to the aboveletter, Stanton, on the next day, wrote: Mr. Pres-ident : Your order for the discharge of any prison-ers of war will be cheerfully and promptly obeyed. As Lincoln thus always treated Stanton, not asa department clerk, but with the respect and con-sideration due a Cabinet minister, questions of dif-ference rarely came to a head. There were very fewinstances in which they ever became sufficientlydefined to leave a written record. One such waswhen the President ordered Franklins division tojoin McClellan, against Stantons desire that itshould be kept with McDowells army moving by. ~%v. yjW>-VA^ CAMERON AND STANTON 145 land to cover Washington. Another when Stanton several other members of the Cabinet signed aprotest against McClellans being placed in commandof the Army of the Potomac after Popes defeat inVirginia. In this instance these Cabinet signershad the good sense not to send their protest to Still a third when Stanton made anorder giving Bishop Ames control of the Methodistchurches which had fallen into our hands in theSouth, in plain violation of a prior letter from thePresident that the Government must not under-take to run the churches. In these and similarcases Stanton yielded readily. One authentic caseremains where the trial of will between the twomen was brought to the point of a sharper is related by Q-eneral James B. Fry, who wit-nessed the scene. Its beginning is sufficientlystated in the following order, made by Lincoln onSeptember 1, 1864: It is represented to me that there a
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