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Zachariah Chandler

President Lincoln is timid, vacillating, and inefficient.

While the Southerners, and Northern Democrats accused Lincoln of precipitous, hasty and radical actions, radicals of his own party were not happy with him as he didn't move fast and firmly enough.

Zachariah Chandler

Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush.

Urging use of force against the South:

Zachariah Chandler

If it was only Abe Lincoln, I would say go to Hell in your own way. [But the alternative is] Traitor McLelland

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Zachariah Chandler

Born: December 10, 1813
Died: November 1, 1879
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Zachariah T. Chandler was an American businessman, politician, one of the founders of the Republican Party, whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist. He was mayor of Detroit, a four-term senator from the state of Michigan, and Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant.

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