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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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with you, sir;I shant do it. Utterly indignant, I turned to the clerk and askedto withdraw the paper. * Dont you let him have it, sir, said Stanton; * dontlet him have it. The clerk, whose hands were trembling like an East-ern slave before his pasha, withdrew the document whichhe was in the act of giving to me. I felt my indignationgetting too strong for me, and, putting on my hat andturning my back to the Secretary, I slowly went to thedoor, with set teeth, saying to myself, As you will nothear me in your own forum, you shall hear from mein mine. A few days later, after recovering my coolness, Ireported the affair to the President. A look of vexationcame over his face. Then he gave me a positive orderfor the promotion of the colonel to be a brigadier, andtold me to take it over to the War Department. I repliedthat I could not speak again with Mr. Stanton till heapologized for his insulting manner to me on the pre-vious occasion. * Oh/ said the President, Stanton has gone to Fort-^24
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EDWIN M. STANTON, SECRETARY OF WARFrom a photograph by Brady A PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET ress Monroe and Dana is acting. He will attend to itfor you/ Judge Usher, Lincolns Secretary of the Interior,says, Chief among his great characteristics were hisgentleness and humanity, and yet he did not hesitatepromptly to approve the sentences of Kennedy and Beall.During the entire war there are but few other evidencesto be found of a willingness on his part that any oneshould suffer the penalty of death. His great effortseemed to be to find some excuse, some palliation foroffences charged. He strove at all times to relieve thecitizens on both sides of the inconveniences and hard-ships resulting from the war. It has often been re-ported that Secretary of War Stanton arbitrarily refusedto carry out his orders. In all such cases reported it willbe found that the President had given directions to himto issue permits to persons who had applied to gothrough the lines into the insurgent districts. Th

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