I don't anticipate. much activity during the month of
August anywhere unless a battle shotild be precipitated
at or near Culpepper, which I do not anticipate, in the
meantime the draft is going on. Our broken regiments
are filled up & negro brigades & divisions are being
added with great rapidity. Stanton assured me 4
weeks ago to-day that we should have 100,000 negro
troops in the field within 60 days from that date. I
have little fear that the President will recede. He is
stubborn as a mtile when he gets his back up & it is
up now on the proclamation. Seward & Weed are
shaky [?] but this peculiar trait of stubbornness
(which annoyed us so much 18 months ago) is now
our Salvation. I shall remain here during this month
& should be glad to see you here, present my kind
regards to Mrs. Trumbtill & believe me

*'Very truly yours,

*'Z. Chandler."



74 ZACHARIAH CHANDLER

In September® Mr. Chandler went to Ohio to stump
the State. A. G. Riddle writes:^ *'I met Senator
Chandler at Painesville early in September and he
offered to accompany me. He had a single well worn
and easy going speech, not very long, which always
closed with a phillipic against England.''

The election being over, ** Senator Zachariah
Chandler^® having seen in the newspapers a para-
graph that Mr. Thnrlow Weed and Governor Morgan
had been in consultation with the President in regard
to his message," wrote a vehement letter to the Presi-
dent telling him that there was a 'patriotic organiza-
tion in all the free and border states, containing to-day
over one million of voters, every man of whom is yotir
friend upon the radical measures of your Administra-
tion; but there is not a Seward, Weed or Blair man
among them all. *How are these men,' he asked
'to be of service to you in any way? They are a
millstone about your neck. You drop them and they

are politically ended forever Conservatives and

traitors are buried together. For God's sake don't
exhume their remains in your message. They will
smell worse than Lazarus did after he had been buried
seven days.' There was no man slower than Mr.
