Today New York was in a fever and stocks went down, down,
down, because Lincoln and General Pope went up to West Point by special train
last night to see General Scott, who it was reported was going back to
Washington with them, which also occasioned intense excitement, when, behold!
he went as far as Jersey City and there remained at one of the stations.
Lincoln being called upon to make a speech came upon the platform and told the
people that if they could only know the object of his visit, they would find it
much less important than they supposed, but that he couldn't tell them what it
was, because Stanton was very particular about the press, and he didn't know
what would happen to him if he should "blab."
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 29
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