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 At the inaugural exercises, March 4, 1861, one of the first to offer his congratulations and to pledge his support to Lincoln was his erstwhile opponent, Douglas.

Lincoln's cabinet consisted of Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; Simon Cameron, Secretary of War; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy; Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior; Edward Bates, Attorney-General; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-General. In January, 1862, Cameron withdrew and in his place Edwin M. Stanton, a Democrat, was appointed. Although of different political convictions, he served his chief loyally until the end.