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Rh, five thousand two hundred and seventy for Lincoln, five thousand and six for Breckenridge, three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-one for Douglas, and one hundred and eighty-three for Bell.

President Lincoln organized an able cabinet as follows: William H. Seward, Secretary of State; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; Simon Cameron, Secretary of War; Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy; Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-General, and Edward Bates, AttorneyGeneral.

Mr. Lincoln's appointments for Oregon were as follows: District Attorneys E. D. Shattuck, April 2, 1862; E. W. McGraw, January 26, 1863; Joseph N. Dolph, January 30, 1865; United States Marshal, William H. Bennett; Surveyor-General, B. J. Pengra; Superintendent of Indian Affairs, W. H. Rector; Collector of Customs at Astoria, William L. Adams; William Matlock, receiver, and W. A. Starkweather, register of the land office at Oregon City.

The defeat of General Lane for Vice-President closed his political career. I was quite well acquainted, though not intimate, with General Lane. I have never known a man in Oregon to whom the Latin maxim, Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re (gentle in manners, brave in deed), could with more propriety be applied. He had all the essential qualifications of a successful politician, and if he had not been so imbued with a desire to extend slavery, might, in all human probability, have represented Oregon in the senate as long as he lived. He was intensely southern in all his feelings and sympathies, a devoted friend to Jefferson Davis, and opposed to coercive measures to preserve the union. I sincerely believe he was wrong and opposed him upon that ground, but it is due to his memory to say that he had, what many shifty