Senator Morgan tells
me that Sumner grows more radical and violent in his views and conduct on the
subject of reëstablishing the Union, declares he will oppose the policy of the
Administration, and acts, Morgan says, as if demented. It has been generally
supposed that Wilson would occupy a different position from Sumner, but Morgan
says they will go together. Morgan himself occupies a rather equivocal
position. That is, he will not, I am satisfied, go to the extreme length of
Sumner. Yet he does not frankly avow himself with the President, nor does he
explicitly define his opinions, if he has opinions which are fixed. He was one
of the sixteen in the Republican caucus who opposed Stevens's joint resolution,
while fourteen supported. As there must, I think, be a break in the
Administration party, Morgan will be likely to adhere, in the main, to the
Administration, and yet that will be apt to throw him into unison with the
Democrats, which he will not willingly assent to, for he has personal
aspirations, and shapes his course with as much calculation as he ever entered
upon a speculation in sugar.
He says Grimes told
him that Harlan was expecting to be President. Not unlikely, and Grimes himself
has probably similar expectations. So has Morgan, and so have a number of
Senators and Representatives as well as other members of the Cabinet. Both
Seward and Stanton are touched with the Presidential fever, or rather have the
disease strong in their system.
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