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Lee asked what she did with all this knowledge. Mrs. Baker shook her pink-and-white countenance, and almost paralysed her opposite neighbour by a sort of Grande Duchesse wink: "Oh, my dear! you are new here. If you had seen Washington in war-times and for a few years afterwards, you wouldn't ask that. We had more congressional business than all the other agents put together.
That money was once good in the Southern States, during war-times, but now it is of no value, and will not buy even a stick of candy. Of course grown persons could not be fooled by the Confederate bills, but boys, who had never seen any of that money, might be easily deceived.
"He ought to be in the Navy," retorted Braylesford, then turned, with a smile, to offer his hand to the submarine boy. "Oh, he will be, surely enough, if war-times ever come upon us again," replied the commander. Word was now sent to conduct Eph aft. "Get aboard your own craft and dress; then come on board and join us in the ward-room," invited Braylesford.
"No!" he said, banging his desk. "You'll run yourself down." "But, father, these are war-times. Could I do less could I think of " "You've done wonders. You've been the life of this work. Some one else can carry it on now. You'd kill yourself. An' this war has cost the Andersons enough." "Should we count the cost?" she asked. Anderson had sworn. "No, we shouldn't.
The story that some members of the cabinet were opposed to the measure was distinctly denied by the President. Carpenter, Six Months in the White House, 88. For interesting statements about this Altoona conference see McClure, Lincoln and Men of War-Times, 248-251. Blaine, i. 439.
See also Senator Sherman's corroborative statement; McClure, Lincoln and Men of War-Times, 219 n. Sherman, Memoirs, ii. 360. In a period of fervid political feeling it was natural that those Republicans who were dissatisfied with President Lincoln should begin, long before the close of his term of office, to seek consolation by arrangements for replacing him by a successor more to their taste.
The two unfortunate men had been captured by one of those small bands which in war-times were called guerrillas, but which we should ordinarily call banditti. They were dragged from place to place about the country by their captors, who kept them under strict surveillance.
It assumed as its own these debts of every kind whatsoever, "including all incurred for pensions, salaries, supplies, advances, transportation, forced loans, deposits, contracts, and any other debts incurred during war-times or prior thereto, chargeable to said treasuries; provided they were contracted by direct orders of the Spanish government or its constituted authorities in said territories."
He cherished no resentment against the South, and every theory of reconstruction that he ever conceived or presented was eminently peaceful and looking solely to reattaching the estranged people to the government." Lincoln and Men of War-Times, 223. Sherman, Memoirs, ii. 356.
Nothing but making the whole thing plumb over will do any good. You ought to have got you a new sash to go with the muslin; weak-eyed as I am, I can see the dirty, faded edges agin the new cloth. The two don't go together. In war-times it was considered excusable to botch things that way, but not in this day and time when all industrious folks can get what's needed."
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