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
Fremont--Simultaneous retirement of Fremont and
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