Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson (Volume 3) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XL VI The Circumstances attending Motley's Resignation discussed in Cabinet ? The North Carolina Plan published in the Richmond Papers ? The Matter of the R. R. Cuyler, bought by the Colombian Government and seized by the United States ? Failure of the Samand Negotiations ? Thaddeus Stevens's Proposal to establish Military Governments in the Southern States opposed in the House ? Banks leads the Opposition ? Stanton's Sensational Report on the Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act ? Plain Talk with the President about Stanton ? Stevens's Bill passes the House ? Sherman's Substitute adopted in the Senate ? The House makes Further Amendments ? Impeachment discussed in the Cabinet ? The Tenure-of-Office Bill condemned in the Cabinet. February 1, Friday. The President did not bring forward the document which he submitted to me yesterday, nor make any allusion to it. A number of gentlemen from the South, committeemen from their respective States, are here, or have been recently, many of whom have called on me, and each has had something to say on the unhappy condition of affairs. The Radical leaders Ipok upon them and all the Southern people not as fellow countrymen, but treat them as though they had no rights and as if they did not intend they should be considered as equals, or as citizens who have, or are entitled to, a voice in the Government. Seward spoke of the call which had been made or was being made on him for the letters and author of the accusations against Mr. Motley and others. He was, as usual when in difficulty and especially conscious that he may have made a mistake, very talkative, almost garrulous. The letters which passed between Seward and Motley, ending with the resignation of the latter, have been published, and very generally the Secretary of State has bee...