Note 84 — Chapter XIII · THE FALL OF RICHMOND, AND THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
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Hon. George W. Julian says: "I spent most of the afternoon in a political caucus, held for the purpose of considering the necessity for a new cabinet and a line of policy less conciliatory than that of Mr. Lincoln; and while everybody was shocked at his murder, the feeling was nearly universal that the accession of Johnson to the presidency would prove a godsend to the country." Polit. Recoll. 255.