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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxiii. (search)
Xxiii.
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)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , October (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , March (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , June (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863 , April (search)
April 3.
Secretary Welles issued an order, naming such of the petty officers, seamen, and marines of the United States Navy, as were entitled to receive the Medal of Honor authorized by Congress, to be given to such as should most distinguish themselves by gallantry in action, and other seamanlike qualities, during the present war.--(Doc. 156.)
The British steamer Tampico was captured off Sabine Pass, Texas, by the United States gunboat New London.--Phillip Huber and three others, having been arrested at Reading, Pa., on a charge of being connected with a treasonable organization known as Knights of the Golden Circle, were taken to Philadelphia and placed in prison.
Considerable excitement existed at Reading in regard to the affair.--Philadelphia Press.
Governor Bonham, of South-Carolina, sent a message to the Senate and House of Representatives of that State, informing them that the spirit of speculation had made such alarming strides in the State as to render their