Note 365 — Chapter XXVI · SEYMOUR AND THE PEACE DEMOCRATS 1860-1861
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New York Evening Post, December 26, 1860.
"On Tuesday, January 8, my father received a dispatch from the President to come at once to the White House. He went immediately and was offered the War Department. This he declined, informing Mr. Buchanan, as had been agreed upon, that at that moment he could be of no service to him in any position except that of the Treasury Department, and that he would accept no other post. The President asked for time. The following day he had Mr. Philip Thomas's resignation in his hand, and sent General Dix's name to the Senate. It was instantly confirmed."—Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 362.