The last public evening reception of the season took place
last evening at the Executive Mansion. It was a jam, not creditable in its
arrangements to the authorities. The multitude were not misbehaved, farther
than crowding together in disorder and confusion may be so regarded. Had there
been a small guard, or even a few police officers, present, there might have
been regulations which would have been readily acquiesced in and observed.
There has always been a want of order and proper management at these levees or
receptions, which I hope may soon be corrected.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 —
December 31, 1866, p. 15
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