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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxiii. (search)
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Soon after the chalk sketch of my conception had been placed upon the canvas, I attended one of the receptions given by the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Welles.
While standing as I thought unobserved, near a corner of the room, Mr. Seward approached me, and in a manner of more than usual warmth, said, I told the President the other day that you were painting your picture upon a false presumption.
Looking at him in some surprise, I inquired his meaning.
Oh, he rejoined, you appear to think in common with many other foolish people, that the great business of this Administration is the destruction of slavery.
Now allow me to say you are much mistaken.
Slavery was killed years ago. Its death knell was tolled when Abraham Lincoln was elected President.
The work of this Administration is the suppression of the Rebellion and the preservation of the Union.
Abolitionists, like the different religious sects, have been chasing one idea, until they have come to believe that t
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xlviii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxvi. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxxii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)