Show THROW 17 LINCOLM lift IS new york editor and statesman in shown to have had his complete confidence AIDED IN SELECTING CABINET As leader in politics of the empire state mr weed invited to springfield to talk over the coming preal dent dents a advisers new traits of the character of abra ham lincoln hia his appreciation of a compliment his own estimate of his inaugural address and his insistence on telling the truth even though it a vere not only unpopular but aumill aej n g to himself are revealed la in a lett letter er of a long correspondence between him and thurlow weed first editor of the albany evening journal and tor for many years the republican leader ot of the state the letter written by mr weed has not been preserved but it was in praise of president lincoln Lincol ns s ral address and of his speech of noti nott fi cation but the answer Is in the possession of william barnes jr of albany chairman of the republican state committee and grandson of mr weed in it president lincoln ex presses ane opinion that the inaugural address will wear ear as well as or better than anything else he has produced it Is not at all likely that the pres ent generation will agree with bis big es dimate of the lasting qualities of the addres i few persons now know ex capt la in the most go general way what it was about while his gettysburg ad dress dregs has become one of the classless of the english language mr weed was one of the strong per of the convention at chi cago which nominated lincoln the bead head of the new york delegation and in charge of the campaign which had for its purpose the nomination tot william 11 seward generally regard ed as the leading candidate the defeat of governor seward was EL great disappointment to mr weed and as he was preparing to leave the convention city he was asked to visit mr lincoln at springfield lie ile did not do so at that time but went to iowa where he had planned to rest but on bis his way back to albany he did stop and had a five hour conversation with the nominee of his party it was that conversation that began a friendship that lasted through the life of mr lincoln and this last letter was one of many that passed between the men they were ordinarily in relation laniog to nat national lonal matters but not in frequently the personal el element ment crept in they did not meet again until after the election when mr lincoln invited the leader of the narty darty in new york to springfield to talk over the makeup make up of a cabinet although mr weed had selected governors and their cabinets in new york state this was the first time he had ever been asked by a president for assistance of that kind and he told mr air lincoln so they discussed men under consideration but mr weed admitted in his autobiography that the men were mr lincoln s selection and nd when he objected to this one or that one the president elect would mould turn the conversation by one of hia his inimitable stories some of the letters showed that mr lincoln had a grasp of political detail with which he had not been credited after his election and before his in augerl he used mr weed to convey to a convention of editors his v w on secession and in one and another the correspondence was kept up even luring during the trying days of the civil tar |