ard
of New York, Secretary of State; Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, Secretary of
the Treasury; Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, Secretary of War; Gideon E.
Welles of Connecticut, Secretary of the Navy; Caleb B. Smith of
Indiana, Secretary of the Interior; Montgomery Blair of Maryland,
Postmaster-General; Edward Bates of Missouri, Attorney-General.

Mr. Chase, although an anti-slavery leader, was a States-Rights Federal
Republican, while Mr. Seward was a Whig, without having connected
himself with the anti-slavery movement.

Mr. Chase and Mr. Seward, the leading men of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, were
as widely apart and antagonistic in their views as were Jefferson, the
Democrat, and Hamilton, the Federalist, the two leaders in Washington's
Cabinet. But in bringing together these two strong men as his chief
advisers, both of whom had been rival candidates for the Presidency, Mr.
Lincoln gave another example of his own greatness and self-reliance, and
put them both in a position to render greater service to the Government
than they could have done, probably, as President.

Mr. Lincoln had been in office little more than five weeks when the War
of the Rebellion began by the firing on Fort Sumter.

GREATER DIPLOMAT THAN SEWARD.

The War of the Rebellion revealed to the people--in fact, to the whole
world--the many sides of Abraham Lincoln's character. It showed him as
a real ruler of men--not a ruler by the mere power of might, but by
the power of a great brain. In his Cabinet were the ablest men in the
country, yet they all knew that Lincoln was abler than any of them.

Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, was a man famed in statesmanship
and diplomacy. During the early stages of the Civil War, when France
and England were seeking an excuse to interfere and help the Southern
Confederacy, Mr. Seward wrote a letter to our minister in London,
Charles Francis Adams, instructing him concerning the attitude of
the Federal government on the question of interference, which would
undoubtedly have brought about a war with England if Abraham Lincoln had
not corrected and amended the letter. He did this, too, without yielding
a point or sacrificing in any way his own dignity or that of the
country.

LINCOLN A GREAT GENERAL.

Throughout the four years of war, Mr. Lincoln spent a great deal of time
in the War Department, receiving news from the front and conferring with
Secretary of War Stanton concerning military affairs.

Mr