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[211] The impression made by newspaper correspondents on the country was very unfavorable, and there was a loud and general demand for the removal of Grant. The feeling took possession of a large majority of Congress and of the President’s most ardent supporters. Delegates waited on Lincoln and urged a change of commanders. Finally, A. K. McClure, a prominent editor of Philadelphia, called on the President at eleven o’clock at night, and for two hours urged Grant’s removal. After a long silence, Lincoln drew himself up in his chair, and simply said, “I can’t spare this man, he fights.”