I am no sycophant,
no parasite. What I think I say. These acts have been perpetrated over and over
again by our generals, and without rebuke; from the appointing power; and I
leave the House and the world to determine world determine where the
responsibility rests.
I charge it upon
the management of the war upon the different branches of the Administration. I
believe the President – is as honest a man as there is in the world; but I
believe him to be too easy and amiable, and to be misled by the malign
influence of Kentucky counselors — and, following that advice, that he has
permitted the adoption of the policy which I have just stated without rebuke.
SOURCE: Beverly
Wilson Palmer, Editor, The Selected
Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: January 1814 – March 1865, p. 310
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