The presidential private secretary, Stoddard, maintains that his chief
sorely astonished and baffled the tribe of acquaintances who flocked in
upon him as soon as he was elevated and went back home, with empty
haversacks, wondering that he ignored them with heartless ingratitude.
"He did not make even his own father a brigadier nor invite cousin
Dennis Hanks to a seat in his Cabinet!"
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