A little ill for a
day or two. Edgar and the Miss F.'s from Harrisburg left. At the Cabinet.
Little done. Friends in Connecticut are some of them acting very
inconsiderately. They feel outraged by the conduct of Dixon and others in
procuring the nomination of Henry Hammond for marshal, a nomination eminently
unfit to be made. The President was deceived into that matter. He was told that
Hammond and the clique were his true supporters and friends, and that those
opposed were his enemies. This falsehood the disappointed ones seem determined
to verify by making themselves opponents
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 510
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