CHAPTER XIII

INCIDENTS OF THE YEARS 1863 AND 1864

The movement in the Senate for the retirement of Secretary Seward--Letters from Gustave Koerner, Alfred Iverson, and Walter B. Scates--The appointment of M. W. Delahay as judge of the U.S. District Court of Kansas--His subsequent impeachment and resignation--Letters of General John M. Palmer, Colonel Fred Hecker, and Jesse K. Dubois--Trumbull doubts the expediency of Lincoln's second nomination--He thinks that there is a lack of efficiency in the prosecution of the war--This opinion shared by Henry Wilson and by Congressmen generally in the beginning of 1864--The people, however, were for Lincoln's renomination--The Cleveland Convention, and nomination of General Frémont--Simultaneous retirement of Frémont and Postmaster-General Blair 210