Great questions not
taken up at the Cabinet. Several minor matters considered. Mr. Harlan,
successor of Mr. Usher in the Department of the Interior, was with us to-day.
Remarked to President Johnson that Governor Dennison and myself proposed
leaving on Saturday next for Charleston, and if the subject of reconstruction
and amnesty was to be taken up before we left, there might be haste. He said
the whole matter would be satisfactorily disposed of, he presumed, before
Saturday; is expecting some North Carolina Union men.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 306-7
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