. Tagebuch von Gideon Welles, Sekretär der Marine unter Lincoln und Johnson . heute und hatte mehr als Stunden Gespräch mit mir im Namen von Lee. Ich ging mit ihm über den Boden, wie ich es mit Moore tat. Aber, sagte Herr Blair, ich bitte mich selbst, die hier in Washington fünfunddreißig Jahre ohne Amt gearbeitet haben, dafür, dass Leemay eine Position in Washington hat. Er sagte, seine Söhne, Montgomery und Frank, seien geopfert worden, und er fragte mich als alten Freund, Lee zu ersparen. Ich sagte ihm, dass ich bereit sei, alles in meiner Macht stehende für ihn oder einen seiner Söhne zu tun, Buti könne nicht von dem, was richtig ist, und den usa abweichen

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. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson . in to-day and had more than anhours talk with me in behalf of Lee. I went over the groundwith him, as I did with Moore. But, said Mr. Blair, I ask as a favor to myself, who have labored here inWashington for thirty-five years without office, that Leemay have a position in Washington. He said his sons, Montgomery and Frank, had been sacrificed, and he askedme as an old friend to spare Lee. I told him I was willing todo anything in my power for him or either of his sons, butI could not depart from what is right and the usages ofthe service; that Lee had been guilty of great improprietyin procuring him to take up his cause with the President ormyself; that Lee had received special favors, had becomerich in a place which others believed justly theirs, and thatthey had imputed his success to the Blair influence; that, were I to give Lee position here in one of the bureaus, as he, Mr. Blair, requested, or were I to give him promotion asasked, it would cause great dissatisfaction in the service, . FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR, SR. fHE MEW Y0K1~r3i.IC LIBRARY 1866] CAPTAIN S. P. LEES APPOINTMENT 50T and be charged to the Blairs; that I, as a friend, was un-willing that discontent against them should be incurred forLee; that he ought not to absorb their influence nor striveto get court favor at their expense. Mr. Blair claimed that Lee stood next to Farragut andPorter in the Navy and ought to be made an admiral; sayshe would have been but for Fox, and named some thingsagainst Fox which I told him were incorrect. At length hedrew out an application from Lee, but not signed thoughin his handwriting, asking a years leave. I told him it wasan extraordinary application, such as no one of his rankhad made, and that Lee must know it was improper. Hecould not think, after his great pecuniary success, of re-maining idle in the service, nor must he strive to evade itsduty. If he declined the Navy Yard at Mare Island, hemi

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