WASHINGTON, D.C., _February 5, 1868_.
The PRESIDENT.
SIR: Your note of this date was handed to me this evening. My
recollection of the conversation at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the
14th of January, corresponds with your statement of it in the letter of
the 31st ultimo[45] in the published correspondence.
The three points specified in that letter, giving your recollection of
the conversation, are correctly stated.
Very respectfully,