was called) should be relieved from duty,
the President remarked:

"What I want and what the people want is generals who will fight battles
and win victories.

"Grant has done this, and I propose to stand by him."

This declaration found its way into the newspapers, and Lincoln was
upheld by the people of the North, who, also, wanted "generals who will
fight battles and win victories."

A VERY BRAINY NUBBIN.

President Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward met Alexander H.
Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, on February 2nd, 1865, on
the River Queen, at Fortress Monroe. Stephens was enveloped in overcoats
and shawls, and had the appearance of a fair-sized man. He began to take
off one wrapping after another, until the small, shriveled old man stood
before them.

Lincoln quietly said to Seward: "This is the largest shucking for so
small a nubbin that I ever saw."

President Lincoln had a friendly conference, but presented his ultimatum
that the one and only condition of peace was that Confederates "must
cease their resistance."

SENT TO HIS "FRIENDS."

During the Civil War, Clement L. Vallandigham, of Ohio, had shown
himself, in the National House of Representatives and elsewhere, one
of the bitterest and most outspoken of all the men of that class which
insisted that "the war was a failure." He declared that it was the
design of "those in power to establish a despotism," and that they had
"no intention of restoring the Union." He denounced the conscription
which had been ordered, and declared that men who submitted to be
drafted into the army were "unworthy to be called free men." He spoke of
the President as "King Lincoln."

Such utterances at this time, when the Government was exerting itself to
the utmost to recruit the armies, were dangerous, and Vallandigham was
arrested, tried by court-martial at Cincinnati, and sentenced to be
placed in confinement during the war.

General Burnside, in command at Cincinnati, approved the sentence,
and ordered that he be sent to Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor; but the
President ordered that he be sent "beyond our lines into those of
his friends." He was therefore escorted to the Confederate lines in
Tennessee, thence going to Richmond. He did not meet with a very cordial
reception there, and finally sought refuge in Canada.

Vallandigham died in a most peculiar way some years after the close of
the War, and it was thought by many that his death