[Gutenberg 28926] • Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862

[Gutenberg 28926] • Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862

[...]terrible opposition by Seward, but it was overcome by the radicals in the House, in the Senate, and outside of Congress by such men as Curtis, Noyes, J. S. Wadsworth, Opdyke, Barney, Welles was from the start considered sound and safe in every respect; Smith was considered a Seward man. From what I witnessed of Cabinet-making in Europe, above all in France under Louis Philippe, I do not forebode anything good in the coming-on shocks and eruptions, and I am sure these must come. This Cabinet as it stands is not a fusion of various shadowings of a party, but it is a [...].