This journal was not entirely friendly to the new Chief Magistrate, but it could not see into the future. Many of the leading publications of the East, among them some of those which condemned slavery and were opposed to secession, did not believe Lincoln was the man for the emergency, but instead of doing what they could do to help him along, they attacked him most viciously. No man, save Washington, was more brutally lied about than Lincoln, but he bore all the slurs and thrusts, not to mention the open, cruel antagonism of those who should have been his warmest friends, with a fortitude and patience few men have ever shown. He was on the right road, and awaited the time when his course should receive the approval it merited. “WHAT’S-HIS-NAME” GOT THERE. General James B. Fry told a good one on Secretary of War Stanton, who was worsted in a contention with the President. Several brigadier-generals were to be selected, and Lincoln maintained that “something must be done in the interest of the Dutch.” Many complaints had come from prominent men, born in the Fatherland, but who were fighting for the Union. “Now, I want Schimmelpfennig given one of those brigadierships.” Stanton was stubborn and headstrong, as usual, but his manner and tone indicated that the President would have his own way in the end. However, he was not to be beaten without having made a fight. “But, Mr. President,” insisted the Iron War Secretary, “it may be that this Mr. Schim--what’s-his-name--has no recommendations showing his fitness. Perhaps he can’t speak English.” “That doesn’t matter a bit, Stanton,” retorted Lincoln, “he may be deaf and dumb for all I know, but whatever language he speaks, if any, we can furnish troops who will understand what he says. That name of his will make up for any differences in religion, politics or understanding, and I’ll take the risk of his coming out all right.” Then, slamming his great hand upon the Secretary’s desk, he said, “Schim-mel-fen-nig must be appointed.” And he was, there and then. A REALLY GREAT GENERAL. “Do you know General A--?” queried the President one day to a friend who had “dropped in” at the White House. “Certainly; but you are not wasting any time thinking about him, are you?” was the rejoinder. “You wrong him,” responded the President, “he is a really great man, a philosopher.” “How do you make that out? He isn’t worth the powder and ball necessary to kill him so I have heard military men say,” the friend remarked. “He is a mighty thinker,” the President returned, “because he has mastered that ancient and wise admonition, ‘Know thyself;’ he has formed an intimate acquaintance with himself, knows as well for what he is fitted and unfitted as any man living. Without doubt he is a remarkable man. This War has not produced another like him.” “How is it you are so highly pleased with General A---- all at once?”