The Radicals have
been busy. They are feeling their way now. The President has been deceived, I
think, in some persons in whom he has confided, and the patronage of the
government, without his being aware of it, has been turned against the
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. 396
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