Mr.Lincoln would not have appointed him during this term.

It was during Mr.Lincoln's first term that Mr.
Stanton received his appointment, and not this term; and an appointment by a President during one term, by the operation of this law, will not extend the appointee during another term because that same party may happen to be re-elected to the Presidency.

Mr.Stanton therefore holds under his commission and not under the law_." Mr.Thaddeus Stevens attempted to address the Senate, but found himself too much exhausted and handed his manuscript to General Butler, who read it to the Senate.

The argument had many of the significant features of Mr.Stevens's style, but lacked the vigor which in the day of his strength he had always shown.

He was rapidly failing in health and was then within a few weeks of his death.