Had a call from
General Frank Blair. He is bitter against Chase and the management of the
Treasury Department, — its favorites and permits. Not unlikely he exaggerates
without intending it, but I apprehend there are reasons for some of his arraignments.
We had some talk on the subject of opening the whole country west of the
Mississippi to trade above New Orleans. He concurs with me.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 510-1
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