Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet: Salmon Chase; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Among the transient guests who interested me were Schuyler Colfax, john Sherman, Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, and, particularly, james A. Garfield, then a member of the house, who frequently came to dine or dropped in some time in the course of the evening. After the return from the wedding journey, Mrs. Sprague te sumed her place in the secretary's drawing-room, and eu tertained all comers with a simple grace of manner which even the gay capital has rarely excelled. In one of our morning walks, the secretary took me to an old building standing on a partly vacant lot in G Street. It was of one story, as I remember, with a roof lping away from a higher building against which it abutted. It was gloomy and deserted, with shattered windows, and weeds growing about the door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.