A rainy day. We were
to have had an excursion to the Pawnee, the flag-ship of Admiral Dahlgren, but
the weather has prevented.
I read to the
President two letters from Senator Sumner of the 4th and 5th of July, on the
subject of negro suffrage in the Rebel States. Sumner is for imposing this upon
those States regardless of all constitutional limitations and restriction. It
is evident he is organizing and drilling for that purpose, and intends to make
war upon the Administration policy and the Administration itself. The President
is not unaware of the scheming that is on foot, but I know not if he
comprehends to its full extent this movement, which is intended to control him
and his Administration.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 330
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