urged by radicals to remove Blair, [287];
refuses at first, later does so, [288];
refuses to interfere in campaign, [289];
refuses to postpone call for more troops, [289];
refutes campaign slanders, [290];
prepares for defeat, [291];
re-elected easily, [291], [292];
his remarks on election, [292]-[294];
refuses to intervene to secure counting of electoral
votes of Border States, [295];