Am in better health
than at any time for the last two or three weeks. Congress accomplishes little
that is good, and is really delaying national unity and prosperity. There is
little statesmanship in the body, but a vast amount of party depravity. The
granting of acts of incorporation, bounties, special privileges, favors, and
profligate legislation of every description is shocking. Schemes for increasing
the enormous taxation which already exists to benefit the iron and wool
interests are occupying the session.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, pp. 548-9
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