The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

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'not much but l know he writes fl on
the Confederate Cross Roads and print
his things in the Toledo Blade"
eyes," said Mr.. Lincoln, chats 81
but that is not the whole. Pull up you
chair and listen." drew to him, ant
he began to read aloud, to me only anc
not to Stanton, one after another O
Petroleum's funny hits; and between
each of them we had a quiet little
laugh all to ourselves. But the lior
head of the secretary showed plainly
that he had no sympathy with this
amusement in fact, his face wore its
darkest and sternest expression. How.
ever, the reading vert on, occasionally
broken by General Eckert's entrance
with another telegram, to which Mr.
Lincoln paid no very serious attention
and he quickly turned back to the read
ing every time. In this way he read
paragraphs and even pages of Nasty,
until finally dispatch was brought in
of more important nature, and he
laid the pamphlet down to attend to it.
While he was thus engaged, Mr..
Stanton motloned to me to come with
him into General Eckart's room, and
when the door was shut he broke out
in fury; g. it to
he said, twas there ever such inability
to appreciate what is going on in an
awful .crisis7 Here is the fate of this
whole republic at stake, and here is
the man around whom it all centres, on
whom it all depends, turning aside from
this momentous, this incompatible is.
sue, to read the trash OF
silly mountebank !"
This fiery speech of the enraged
Secretary was interrupted by General
Eckert, who had another telegram
which he showed to him and with
which we all went back into Mr.. STAN
tons own office, in order that the Pres
ident might see it.
Hardly had he begun to read it,
however, when new occasion of irri-
tatlon arose. The messenger brought
in card and handed it to the Presi-
dent, who said at once, as he passed
the card over to the secretary, "Show
him in I" Stanton read it, and turning
to me, exclaimed in low voice, "God
in Heaven, it is Whitelaw Reid -
understood the point OF this explosion
at once. MIR. Reid who was then the
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
and great friend of Secretary Chase,
in Washington, was not liked by the
Secretary of War. This dislike had
gone so far that the doorkeepers at the
War Department had received direc-
tions that Mr.. Reid was not to be ad.
mltted. But when he sent his card in
to the President, they could not refuse
it. Mr.. Reid came in and was greeted
by Mr.. Lincoln, but not by the Secre-
tary HIS purpose was merely to OBJ
tam from headquarters and from the
highest authority the assurance that the
election had certainly gone in favor of
Lincoln ; and after expressions of thanks
and congratulations he withdrew. Just
then Judge David e. Carter came in
with two or three other gentlemen
among them Mr.. Fox of the Navy De-
partment, and the reading of Petroleum
v. Nasty, from the Confederate Cross
Roads, was not resumed. -
These incidents of memorable his
torical event are not recorded in any
annals of the time that l have seen
and yet they appear to me interesting
and characteristic enough not to be for.
gotten.-Mez0 York San. ...........