. . . lately called to see the President. After the usual greetings, etc., ‘Lincoln,’ said
he, ‘when you turned out Cameron why didn’t you turn out all the rest of your
Cabinet?’ ‘That,’ said the President, ‘makes
me think of something that took place near home in Illinois. An old man had been pestered with a colony of
skunks, that depredated nightly upon his poultry. He determined to be rid of them, and finally
succeeded in getting them into one hole, where he could kill them at his
pleasure. He drew one forth by the tail
and executed him, but, said he, in telling the story, this caused such an
infernal stench that he was glad to let the rest run.’
– Published in The Cedar Valley Times, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862, p. 1
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