Identifier: trueabrahamlinc19044curt (find matches)
Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ion. Their places had to be filledwith untrained men who did not understand their dutiesand had not been accustomed to official labor or disci-pline. It would have been remarkable if they had con-ducted the routine work without friction, but theurgency and the magnitude of the responsibility andlabor that were thrown upon them was more than atrained corps of officials could have executed withoutconfusion and delay. The President was probably theonly man connected with the government that did notlose his self-control. During all that most trying period,as was the case throughout his life, he was composed,serene, and confident. Oftentimes, when subordinateofficials and outsiders came to him raging with indigna-tion, he heard them with patience, replied with a jeston his lips, and quieted their nerves by talking of com-monplace matters. His Cabinet officers were often fret-ful, and there was continual friction between the severaldepartments. Several times it almost reached the break- i86
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MONTGOMERY BLAIR, POSTMASTER-GENERALFrom a photograph by Brady A PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET ing-point. But Lincoln soothed and satisfied all partieswithout taking the side of either. Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, was not only a rep-resentative of the border State aristocracy, but belongedto one of the most prominent Democratic families inthe country, was one of the founders of the Republicanparty, and was first known to Lincoln as the attorneywho argued Dred Scotts case in the Supreme Court.He was a graduate of West Point Military Academy,had several years of military training in Indian cam-paigns, had studied law, and was appointed a judge ofthe Court of Common Pleas when he was a very youngman. President Buchanan made him solicitor of theCourt of Claims, but removed him because of his oppo-sition to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Thismade a Republican of Blair, and, with the exception ofhis brother Francis P. Blair, of Missouri, and CassiusM. Clay, of Kentucky, he was the mo

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