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President," said he, "this is worse than another Bull Run. Pray let me go to Secretary Chase and see if I can not induce him to withdraw his resignation. Its acceptance now might cause a financial panic." But Lincoln was in a fighting mood. "Chase thinks he has become indispensable to the country," he told Chittenden. "He also thinks he ought to be President; he has no doubt whatever about that.
Lincoln felt confident that an attempt was to have been made to assassinate him as he passed through Baltimore. Among other statements which confirmed him in this opinion was one by Mr. Chittenden, of Vermont, afterward Register of the Treasury. Mr.
"Well, I do not want this to happen on my account. I am young; I can wait; I'll take my tinkering elsewhere. You've been very good to me sir, and I should hate to see you troubled." "Chittenden, you can't leave me now. If you do, I shall never forgive you. You are a valuable piece of property just now. You are to be my test case, as the lawyers say.
A few minutes later, just as the girls of the party were busy dipping the cups and spoons into the edge of the snow, the sun so hot on their shoulders that they quite longed to get into the shade, Elliot Chittenden came hurrying back from a short excursion out to the edge of the slope, to tell them of a wicked-looking cloud in the north.
Lord Chittenden had taken them to be re-set and cleaned, and the maid who knew about it had gone for a holiday. So that was all right. 'I wonder if we ever shall see the Psammead again, said Jane wistfully as they walked in the garden, while mother was putting the Lamb to bed. 'I'm sure we shall, said Cyril, 'if you really wished it.
"If he joins the union he'll be permitted to continue the perfecting of his invention?" "His invention is not necessary at present. The output as it is meets the demand." "Look here, Mr. Morrissy, I'll make you a proposition." "What?" "You and I will go down to the molding-room and have it out with our fists. If you win, Chittenden goes; if I win, he stays and the men return to work."
"We can finish our book, you know," went on Menie. "And there are the last letters to read to Mrs Snow. I hope nobody will come in. We shall have such a quiet day." But this was not to be. There was the sound of sleigh-bells beneath the window, and Graeme looked out. "It is Doctor Chittenden," said she.
On the 19th the transports stopped for wood at Warrenton, about ten miles below Vicksburg, and here a detachment of the 4th Wisconsin, sent to guard the working party, became involved in a skirmish with the Confederates, in which Sergeant-Major N. H. Chittenden and Private C. E. Perry, of A Company, suffered the first wounds received in battle by the troops of the United States in the Department of the Gulf.
Out of this offhand speech upon the assignats grew a paper which, some time afterward, I presented in Washington before a number of members of the Senate and House, at the request of General Garfield, who was then a representative, and of his colleague, Mr. Chittenden of Brooklyn.
Here it is, word for word: Chittenden, Cal., Nov. 15, 1909. Dear Mrs. Roberts: We do not wish you to cross the State line into Oregon without carrying a few words from home with you that is our excuse for the writing of this letter. You have been one of us at Chittenden since you were invited to make our home yours last spring.
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