(General Franklin heard this.)
But "Little Mac" had no design on the dictatorship, being surely a lover of the Union, too.
SHOVELING FLEAS.
On account of the looseness and corruption attending the raising of soldiers at the first, the President, noting the difference between the number of men forwarded to General McClellan for the Army of the Potomac, and the number reported arrived, said:
"Sending men to that army is like shoveling fleas across a barn-yard--half of them never get there."
THE GEORGIA COLONEL'S COSTUME.
"On account of this sectional warfare," Senator Mason, of Virginia, announced his resolve to wear homespun, and dispense with Yankee manufactures altogether. That made Lincoln laugh, and say: "To carry out his idea, he ought to go barefoot. If that's the plan, they should begin at the foundation, and adopt the well-known Georgian colonel's uniform--a shirt-collar and a pair of spurs!"--(In, speech, New England tour, 1860.)
COARSE FEED FIRST!
Secretary Whitney wrote: "In July, 1861, I was in Washington, where I merely said to President Lincoln: 'Everything is drifting into the war, and I guess you will have to put me in the army.' (He was in the Indian service at the time.)
"The President looked up from his work, and said good-humoredly: