Not much of special
interest in the Cabinet. Seward read dispatches to Washburn, the poor Minister
at the poor Government of Paraguay, expressing expectation that he had ere this
reached his destination, assisted by Acting Rear-Admiral Godon. The course of
Washburn has been inexcusably wrong, and the State Department scarcely less so.
He has wasted time and opportunities at Montevideo, when he should have been at
his post, if we are to have a Minister at Paraguay, and is now asking, and the
State Department is conceding, too much in order that he may get there.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 543
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