WASHINGTON, March
16, 1861.
Every day affords
proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in
the administration. Seward, Bates and Cameron form one wing; Chase, Miller,
Blair, the opposite wing; Smith is on both sides, and Lincoln sometimes on one
and sometimes on the other. There has been agreement in nothing. Lincoln, it is
complained in the streets, has undertaken to distribute the whole patronage,
small and great, leaving nothing to the chiefs of departments. Growls about
Scott's "imbecility" are frequent The Republicans are beginning to
think that a monstrous blunder was made in the tariff bill, and that it will
cut off the trade of New York, build up New Orleans and the Southern ports, and
leave the government no revenue; they see before them the prospect of some
being without money and without credit. But with all this it is certain that
Anderson will be withdrawn.
SOURCE: Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, The Letters and Times of the Tylers, Volume 2, p.
636
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