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For an interesting account of these incidents, from Secretary Chase's Diary, see Warden, 401. Lamon, 332; Herndon, 353-356; N. and H. try to mitigate this story, v. 133. He did not always feel his tongue tied afterward by the obligations of office; e.g., see Julian, Polit. Recoll. 210. For a singular tale, see McClellan, Own Story, 153.
When General Grant took command of the Eastern armies he said that the country should be cautioned against expecting too great success, because the loyal and rebel armies were made up of men of the same race, having about the same experience in war, and neither able justly to claim any great superiority over the other in endurance, courage, or discipline. Chittenden, Recoll. 320.
The quarreling politicians were doing, very efficiently, the work which Southern sympathizers had been expected to do. Recoll. 204. To the people who had been engaged in changing Illinois from a wilderness into a civilized State, Europe had been an abstraction, a mere colored spot upon a map, which in their lives meant nothing.
Invaluable lessons had been learned, and no lives which were lost in the war bore fruit of greater usefulness than did those which seemed to have been foolishly thrown away at Bull Run. George W. Julian, somewhat ruefully acknowledging that Lincoln "was always himself the President." Polit. Recoll. 190.
See Arnold, Lincoln, 385. But the fact is notorious among all who remember those times. Polit. Recoll. 243 et seq. Mr. Julian here gives a vivid sketch of the opposition to Mr. Lincoln. In the National Intelligencer, February 22, 1864. Lovejoy had generally stood faithfully by the President. N. and H. ix. 40. I Samuel xxii. 2.
General Palfrey says of this committee that "the worst spirit of the Inquisition characterized their doings." Through Stanton; McClellan, Own Story, 156. Only a few days before this time Lincoln had said that he had no "right" to insist upon knowing the general's plans. Julian, Polit. Recoll. 201. It appears that he feared that what he said would leak out, and ultimately reach the enemy.
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