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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