His influence in aid of the finances of the government in its early period of depression was given without stint and was of incalculable value.

In the neighboring State of New Jersey, Governor Charles Olden was ready for hearty co-operation, and seconded with patriotic zeal every movement in aid of the loyal cause.
Of a different type from Governor Morgan, but equally valuable and more enthusiastic, was the Governor of Pennsylvania, Andrew G.
Curtin.

Circumstances had thrown him into close and cordial relations with Mr.Lincoln,--relations which had their origin at the time of the Chicago Convention, and which had grown more intimate after Mr.Lincoln was inaugurated.

Before the firing on Sumter, but when the States of the Confederacy were evidently preparing for war, Mr.Lincoln earnestly desired a counter signal of readiness on the part of the North.

Such a movement in New England would have been regarded in the South merely as a fresh ebullition of radicalism.