The veto
overridden.
Besides Stanton, three other members of the Cabinet had showed their disaffection toward the President's policy. They were Mr. Speed, the
Disaffection
in the Cabinet.
Stanton's
attitude
toward the
President.
The President knew of this difference of feeling between himself and his War Secretary at the time of his reorganization of the Cabinet in July, and would undoubtedly have been glad to receive his resignation, but he did not ask for it. The newspapers which sustained the Administration did, however, and predicted that it would be forthcoming. The Republican leaders, on the other hand, encouraged Stanton to hold on to the office, and represented to him that the welfare of his country demanded the sacrifice of his personal feelings in the matter.
It was now generally proclaimed throughout the North that the rebel chieftains had repossessed themselves of the reconstructed "State"
The opinion and feeling
in the North concerning
the condition of things
in the South.
At this moment a horrible tragedy was enacted in New Orleans which seemed to give verification to some, if not all, of these statements.