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Fessenden of Maine put it plainest: “The simple truth is, there was never such a shambling half-and-half set of incapables collected in one government since the world began.” Privately, many of the Jacobins agreed with the charge, though for different reasons, the main one being that Lincoln, irresolute by nature, had surrounded himself with weak-spined members of the opposition party. Instead, the main eastern army, under the Democrat McClellan-“McNapoleon,” they called him-had held back, as if on purpose, and then retreated to the James, complaining within hearing of the voters that the Administration was to blame. About to open their campaigns for reëlection in November, they had counted on battlefield victories to increase their prospects for victory at the polls.
It also seemed to these Republicans that entirely too many Democrats were seated in high places, specifically in the cabinet and the army and now their anger was increased by apprehension. “The politicians were in full bay, particularly those of his own party who had been urging, without success, his support of antislavery legislation which he feared would lose him the border states, held to the Union so far by his promise that no such laws would be passed.
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