[139] General Orders, No. 49.
[140] Statutes at Large, Vol. IV. p. 736.
[141] Ante, p. 135.
[142] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Part 2, p. 37.
[143] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Part 2, p. 4.
[144] Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869: Congressional Globe, 41st Cong. 1st Sess., p. 1.
[145] Daily Morning Chronicle, March 17, 1869.
[146] New York Custom-House Investigation,—Testimony of Gen. G. W. Palmer: Senate Reports, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., No. 227, Vol. III. p. 581.
[147] Testimony of William Atkinson: Ibid., p. 626.
[148] Private letter to Mr. Sumner, quoted in Speech of March 27, 1871: Ante, Vol. XIX. p. 32.