Little of importance at the Cabinet meeting. Seward left
early. He seemed uneasy, and I thought was apprehensive I might bring up the
subject of the Peterhoff mails. It suits him better to have interviews with the
President alone than with a full Cabinet, especially on points where he knows
himself wrong. I did not feel particularly anxious that the subject should be
introduced to-day, for I am not fully prepared with my reply, though busily
occupied on the subject-matter, giving it every moment I can spare from
pressing current business.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 285-6
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