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Were it not for the Seward difficulty , Lincoln declared that he would offer Bates the State Department then and there . Should that position remain unavailable , he would offer Bates the Attorney Generalship and urge him to accept .
Were it not for the Seward difficulty , Lincoln declared that he would offer Bates the State Department then and there . Should that position remain unavailable , he would offer Bates the Attorney Generalship and urge him to accept .
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Then they considered New York appointments from the cabinet down , Lincoln revealing that he had offered Seward the State Department . Weed , according to rumor , “ made an authorized intimation ... of Mr. Seward's unwillingness to take ...
Then they considered New York appointments from the cabinet down , Lincoln revealing that he had offered Seward the State Department . Weed , according to rumor , “ made an authorized intimation ... of Mr. Seward's unwillingness to take ...
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master Generalship and the War and Navy departments , is not likely before the end of the week . ... Mr. Seward , and Mr. Cameron , the appointment of Caleb B. Smith , of Indiana , to the Interior Department , is a certainty .
master Generalship and the War and Navy departments , is not likely before the end of the week . ... Mr. Seward , and Mr. Cameron , the appointment of Caleb B. Smith , of Indiana , to the Interior Department , is a certainty .
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Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect |
| Author | William Eldon Baringer |
| Contributor | Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) |
| Publisher | Abraham Lincoln association, 1945 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 5 May 2016 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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