Senator Morgan says
that in the debate on Lewis Campbell's appointment as Minister to Mexico, Wade
declared in executive session he intended to vote in favor of no man for any
appointment who favored the Johnson policy and opposed the policy of Congress.
Campbell, he said, was in favor of the Johnson policy. He then launched off
into a tirade against Maximilian, in which he got terribly excited, but finally
closed by voting for Campbell, who is an Ohio man.
The Senate rejected
the nomination of Frank Blair for Collector at St. Louis. No man in the
country, perhaps, did so much and so efficiently and timely against the
Rebellion as General Blair in Missouri at the beginning of the Rebellion. But
he is not of the Radical faction.
A. E. Burr, who is a
member of the Connecticut Legislature from Hartford, writes me that there is a
good deal of feeling on the subject of Senator; thinks that a majority might be
concentrated on me if I am so disposed. One of the newspaper correspondents,
Ripley, has called on me on the same subject. R. has seen Dixon, who says he
should like to have me elected and will do anything to bring it about, provided
it is my wish, but he adds the difficulty is I will do nothing for myself. D.
says there is not a doubt of my election if I will earnestly enter the canvass.
He may be correct, probably is, but I cannot approve, or do, what others do in
these matters. While I should feel gratified with the unsolicited compliment of
such a testimonial, I do not so crave it as to employ or enter into such means
as are too freely used to obtain it. If a good and true man can be secured I
will aid him.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 501-2
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