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Show THURLOW WEED LINCOLN'S iTiiEiiD New York Editor and Statesman Shown to Have Had His Complete Confidence. AIDED IN SELECTING CABINET As Leader In Politics of the Empire State Mr. Weed Was Invited to Springfield to Talk Over the Coming President's Presi-dent's Advisers. New traits of the character of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, his appreciation of a compliment, his own estimate of his inaugural address and his Insistence on telling the truth, even though it were not only unpopular but humiliating humili-ating to himself, are revealed in a letter of a long correspondence between be-tween him and Thurlowv Weed, first editor of the Albany Evening Journal, and for many years the Republican leader of the state. The letter written by Mr. Weed has not been preserved, but it was in praise of President Lincoln's inaugural inaugu-ral address and of his speech of notification. noti-fication. 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 expresses ex-presses the opinion that the inaugural address will wear as well as or better than anything else he has produced. It is not at all likely that the present pres-ent generation will agree wifh his estimate es-timate of the lasting o.ualities of the address. Few persons now know, except ex-cept in the mopt gen err 1 way, what it was about, while his Gettysburg address ad-dress has become one of the classicss of the English language. Mr. Weed was one of the strong personalities per-sonalities of the convention at Chicago Chi-cago which nominated Lincoln,1 the head of the New York delegation, and in charge of the campaign which had for its purpose the nomination tof William H. Seward, generally regarded regard-ed as the leading candidate'. The defeat of Governor Seward was a 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 did not do so at that tiree, but went to Iowa, where he had planned to rest, but on his way back to Albany he did stop r.nd had a five liour conversation with the nominee of hia 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 re-lation to national matters, but not infrequently in-frequently the personal element crept in. They did not meet again until after fhe election, when Mr. Lincoln invited 'he leader of the party in New York to 3pringfield to talk over the make-up of i cabinet. Although Mr. Weed had se-:cted se-:cted governors and their cabinets in Vew York state, this was the first time '?e had ever been asked by a president or assistance of that kind, and he told Tr. Lincoln bo. They discussed men nder consideration, but Mr. Weed dmitted in his autobiography that he men were Mr. Lincoln's selection, md when he objected to this one or hat one the president-elect hvould, urn the conversation by one of his nimitable stories. Some of the letters showed thai Mr. Lincoln had a grasp of political detail .'1th which he had not been credited, ifter his election and before his in-ugural in-ugural he used Mr. Weed to convey o a convention of editors his vk:w n secession, and in one and another ue correspondence was kept up even uring the trying days of the Civil var. |