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Chittenden was a Vermont lawyer who was appointed to serve in the Washington Peace Conference prior to the Civil War, and served as the first US Register of the Treasury. He was also a great admirer of Lincoln and a Vermont patriot, which was kind of wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Chittenden loved a good story, and was good at telling them.He witnessed the Battle at Fort Stevens, and credits the NY 10th and the Vermont 6th (of whom he was endearingly proud) with saving Washington from Early's army. He relates how he was having a late breakfast with his family a couple days before the attack, and some soldier on overhearing his conversation invited him to come check out the situation for himself. A lovely ride through the countryside, and then there - tens of thousands of Confederates camped 35 miles from the Capitol (oh), and nobody in Washington had a clue. (Ah, the wonders of modern telecommunications.) When asked if he wanted to see the rest of the army, he said that actually he had some business to attend to back home. And the soldier replies, that yes exactly - he might want to think about putting his family on a train back to Vermont. I see that Chittenden would disagree on important points with modern accounts of the skirmish.
Some passages, to give you a flavor:
"There were many anxious Cabinet consultations for the purpose of devising some means of refusing payment of these claims without subjecting the Treasury justly to the charge of repudiation. There was but one way discovered in which it could be done. Possibly there was but one man in the nation who had the moral courage to do it. The way was for the Secretary of War to undertake the personal examination of the facts in each case, and to refuse to send any claim to the Treasury until he was satisfied of its justice and equity... On the 14th of January, 1862, Mr. Stanton was invited into the Cabinet and accepted his nomination as Secretary of War. He was expected to diminish the demands of the Department of the West upon the Treasury, but it was not supposed that he would wholly arrest them... The delay became so embarrassing, that the Secretary of the Treasury requested one of the bureau chiefs to call upon Secretary Stanton... Two hours after the close of business on January 28th, the officer found Secretary Stanton literally buried in accumulated heaps of requisitions on the Treasury... There were literally cords of these requisitions." (Can't you just see Bob Gates personally evaluating every requisition for toothpaste?)
"There was at the corner of Eleventh and K Streets, a colored church, the oldest, I believe, in Washington. I passed it every day on my way to the Treasury, and frequently attended its meetings... Suddenly the old man dropped upon his knees, and, raising his clasped hands in the most unstudied attitude of supplication, exclaimed, "Oh Lord, teach my people! Teach my people!" I never heard a more earnest and touching prayer. Every person in the crowded church was kneeling, and spontaneously their musical voices, pitched to the same key, swelled a mighty refrain - "Hear him, Good Lord, Hear him!" A single voice sang, "Praise God!" and with an effect almost indescribable rang through the church from floor to roof-tree. I came away while the influence of the scene was upon me, humbled and abashed by the lesson which the old colored preacher had taught me of the injustice of my race."
"The Treasury was the creation of Alexander Hamilton. It will live as long as the nation exists, and everyone who comprehends it will accept it as a monument to the financial ability of its author."
"War is a crime against humanity. Criminals who transgress laws made by man sometimes escape the penalty; those who break the laws ordained by God, never... We who lived before the war are able to compare the tone of legislation, the purity of the judiciary, the integrity of public officers, and the conscience which regulated the intercourse of men in those days with the insane speculations, the monopolies, the thirst for office and the greed of riches of the present day, and require no other proofs of the extent of the national demoralization."
Chittenden explains his illness and retirement in the most remarkable way, and I wonder if anyone knows of other references to the incident. The British were hankering for an excuse to come in on the side of the Confederacy. The Confederacy had bought two armored ships from a private British company, and these would have probably brought about Union defeat. Charles Adams (then Ambassador) asked her Majesty's Government to intercede, which they refused to do unless he could come up with enough cash within two days to compensate the shipbuilder -- a million pounds in sterling gold coins. "But the unexpected sometimes happens. The event which prevented these floating engines of destruction from entering upon their intended work was an unanticipated miracle. It constituted, possibly, the most signal service ever rendered by a citizen of one country to the government of another." An Englishman shows up in Adam's office and offers him the full amount without any form of security, on the terms that his name shall remain forever anonymous. Adams sends word to Washington asking for ten million dollars in US bonds to be brought to England to be held as collateral against the loan. So Chittenden takes the ship to England and en route, has to personally sign all these bonds which were in denominations of $500 and $1000. "The labor imposed was continuous and severe, certainly none so inexpressibly dreary, as that of writing one's own name hour after hour, day after day." He challenges anyone who thinks he's whining to sign their name continuously for 3 days and nights at a rate of 10 signatures a minute. And this, he claims, is what took such a toll, that he didn't recover for years. At the writing of this book, he says he is the last man who knows the name of this friend of the Union, and he will die without divulging it. Who's the man?
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Recollections of President Lincoln and his administration L E 18241900 Chittenden 9781176485815 Books Reviews
Chittenden was a Vermont lawyer who was appointed to serve in the Washington Peace Conference prior to the Civil War, and served as the first US Register of the Treasury. He was also a great admirer of Lincoln and a Vermont patriot, which was kind of wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Chittenden loved a good story, and was good at telling them.
He witnessed the Battle at Fort Stevens, and credits the NY 10th and the Vermont 6th (of whom he was endearingly proud) with saving Washington from Early's army. He relates how he was having a late breakfast with his family a couple days before the attack, and some soldier on overhearing his conversation invited him to come check out the situation for himself. A lovely ride through the countryside, and then there - tens of thousands of Confederates camped 35 miles from the Capitol (oh), and nobody in Washington had a clue. (Ah, the wonders of modern telecommunications.) When asked if he wanted to see the rest of the army, he said that actually he had some business to attend to back home. And the soldier replies, that yes exactly - he might want to think about putting his family on a train back to Vermont. I see that Chittenden would disagree on important points with modern accounts of the skirmish.
Some passages, to give you a flavor
"There were many anxious Cabinet consultations for the purpose of devising some means of refusing payment of these claims without subjecting the Treasury justly to the charge of repudiation. There was but one way discovered in which it could be done. Possibly there was but one man in the nation who had the moral courage to do it. The way was for the Secretary of War to undertake the personal examination of the facts in each case, and to refuse to send any claim to the Treasury until he was satisfied of its justice and equity... On the 14th of January, 1862, Mr. Stanton was invited into the Cabinet and accepted his nomination as Secretary of War. He was expected to diminish the demands of the Department of the West upon the Treasury, but it was not supposed that he would wholly arrest them... The delay became so embarrassing, that the Secretary of the Treasury requested one of the bureau chiefs to call upon Secretary Stanton... Two hours after the close of business on January 28th, the officer found Secretary Stanton literally buried in accumulated heaps of requisitions on the Treasury... There were literally cords of these requisitions." (Can't you just see Bob Gates personally evaluating every requisition for toothpaste?)
"There was at the corner of Eleventh and K Streets, a colored church, the oldest, I believe, in Washington. I passed it every day on my way to the Treasury, and frequently attended its meetings... Suddenly the old man dropped upon his knees, and, raising his clasped hands in the most unstudied attitude of supplication, exclaimed, "Oh Lord, teach my people! Teach my people!" I never heard a more earnest and touching prayer. Every person in the crowded church was kneeling, and spontaneously their musical voices, pitched to the same key, swelled a mighty refrain - "Hear him, Good Lord, Hear him!" A single voice sang, "Praise God!" and with an effect almost indescribable rang through the church from floor to roof-tree. I came away while the influence of the scene was upon me, humbled and abashed by the lesson which the old colored preacher had taught me of the injustice of my race."
"The Treasury was the creation of Alexander Hamilton. It will live as long as the nation exists, and everyone who comprehends it will accept it as a monument to the financial ability of its author."
"War is a crime against humanity. Criminals who transgress laws made by man sometimes escape the penalty; those who break the laws ordained by God, never... We who lived before the war are able to compare the tone of legislation, the purity of the judiciary, the integrity of public officers, and the conscience which regulated the intercourse of men in those days with the insane speculations, the monopolies, the thirst for office and the greed of riches of the present day, and require no other proofs of the extent of the national demoralization."
Chittenden explains his illness and retirement in the most remarkable way, and I wonder if anyone knows of other references to the incident. The British were hankering for an excuse to come in on the side of the Confederacy. The Confederacy had bought two armored ships from a private British company, and these would have probably brought about Union defeat. Charles Adams (then Ambassador) asked her Majesty's Government to intercede, which they refused to do unless he could come up with enough cash within two days to compensate the shipbuilder -- a million pounds in sterling gold coins. "But the unexpected sometimes happens. The event which prevented these floating engines of destruction from entering upon their intended work was an unanticipated miracle. It constituted, possibly, the most signal service ever rendered by a citizen of one country to the government of another." An Englishman shows up in Adam's office and offers him the full amount without any form of security, on the terms that his name shall remain forever anonymous. Adams sends word to Washington asking for ten million dollars in US bonds to be brought to England to be held as collateral against the loan. So Chittenden takes the ship to England and en route, has to personally sign all these bonds which were in denominations of $500 and $1000. "The labor imposed was continuous and severe, certainly none so inexpressibly dreary, as that of writing one's own name hour after hour, day after day." He challenges anyone who thinks he's whining to sign their name continuously for 3 days and nights at a rate of 10 signatures a minute. And this, he claims, is what took such a toll, that he didn't recover for years. At the writing of this book, he says he is the last man who knows the name of this friend of the Union, and he will die without divulging it. Who's the man?
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