The extremists are
angry and violent because the President follows his own convictions, and their
operations through the press are prolific in manufacturing scandal against him.
No harm will come of it, if he is prudent and firm. The leaders had flattered
themselves that they had more than two thirds of each house, and could,
therefore, carry all their measures over any veto. The President says there has
been a design to attempt impeachment if he did not yield to them. I am inclined
to believe this has been talked of among the leaders, but they would not press
a majority of their own number into the movement.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 439-40
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