Sunday, April 30, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, December 11, 1865

I gave the President a full relation of my interview with Sumner. He was much interested and maintains well his position. I think they will not shake him. Sumner sent me through the mail a newspaper containing a memorial for the impeachment of the President. He marked and underscored certain passages which he said wrote on the margin were answers to some of my questions put to him in our conversation. The attack upon the President is coarse and unworthy of a thought.

SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 395

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