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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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ferson Davis, arrived in Washington :Martin J. Crawford, John Forsyth, and A. S. Romans. They requestedPresident Lincoln to give up Sumter, and also Fort Pickens, at Pensa-cola. They held consultations with Mason and Hunter, of Virginia,and Breckinridge, of Kentucky. They found J. A. Campbell, one ofthe judges of the Supreme Court, an able ally. He was from Alabama,but professed loyalty to the Union. He had the confidence of Mr.Seward, who did not mistrust that Campbell was in constant communi- OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION. 243 cation with Jefferson Daviss coramissioners. Mr. Seward was pleasedto see the gentlemen, but could not hold any official relations with them.He thought there would not be war. Fort Sumter probably would beevacuated. Nothing would be done without notice, he thought. Mr.Seward gave Judge Campbell no assurance as an officer of the Cabinet,but only as a private citizen. He had no authority to speak officially.I was in Washington during those March days. The hotels and
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MONTGOMEKY BLAIK- 244 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. boarding-houses were filled with men from nearl)^ every Northern State,and many from Maryland and A^irginia, seeking office. They swarmedinto the White House, filled the corridors and stairways leading to theexecutive chamber, waiting for the moment when they could see thePresident. Each had letters of recommendation for some office—consul,marshal, or postmaster. Senators and members of the Cabinet, entitledto precedence, who made their way through the crowd, were lookedupon as intruders. Some of the most importunate office-seekers werefrom Yirginia. They had not voted for Mr. Lincoln, did not belong tothe Republican Party ; they were Whigs, and had voted for Mr. Bell, ofTennessee. As there were no Republicans in Yirginia, they would standsome chance of obtaining an office. Many of the loud-talking men fromthe seceded States were loath to give up the salaries they were receivingfrom the Government. They were predicting war. The) said th

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