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Title: Abraham Lincoln's cabinet
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 United States. War Department Cabinet officers
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dis-interested, unpurchased, and a sure proof of the Presi-dents loyal determination. My residence here in theDistrict is also a recommendation being free fromGeographical discriminations. I have said nothing to General Grant on the sub-ject and shall not—but I would be glad to have youtalk with him fully & freely and report to me his viewson this question. To me it may in considerable degreebe a question of life—it certainly is of health, for Imust go to the Bench or Bar. His name & fortune heowed at a critical moment to me. He can preserve meto my family under Providence. I have communicatedto you more fully than ever before to mortal man, &in confidence you will do what seems right of whichyou are a better judge than I am. Hoping to see or hear from you soon I am everYours Edwin M. StantonRt Rev Bishop Simpson Grant reacted favorably at first to the MethodistBishops entreaties, but George W. Childs, a Philadelphiabanker who was friendly with the President, insisted
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From the Lincoln National Life Foundation Matthew Simpson 1811-1884 American Methodist Episcopal Clergyman. Spoke widelyin support of Union cause during the Civil War and de-livered eulogy at Lincolns burial service in Springfield,Illinois. that Stantons, health was a factor to take into considera-tion when the former War Secretarys name was pre-sented for appointment to the Supreme Court bench.Bishop Simpson reported to Stanton as to how the matterof the appointment stood, and Stanton replied on No-vember 3, 1869:My Dear Friend I am under much obligation for your note receivedthis morning. When I heard that your daughter & herhusband were to start so soon for Europe it causedme much regret to have troubled you with any affairof my own, but I hope it gave you no inconvenience.The result of your conference is very plain to me, andgives me no surprise, being what I have expected, andI am quite sure that you will conform to my wish thatthe matter be strictly confidential and confined

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