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Lincoln's first term as President began on March 4, 1861, his second term exactly four years later. He surrounded himself with men who shared his views on slavery. Many of his cabinet members were much better educated than Lincoln, and no doubt some, or maybe all, felt that they could do a better job. However, it is a tribute to Lincoln's management style that he was able to keep the cabinet moving in the right direction, despite the efforts of some of its members. On the surface they were usually courteous to each other; however, beneath their polite exterior, they were plagued by rivalry, disagreement, animosity, different temperaments and jealousy over the president. Lincoln would usually mediate between Cabinet members. They were free to disagree with each other but Lincoln was the balance. within the cabinet. Lincoln's political family, his executive cabinet, was a constant source of tension to the President in the early of the war. It was compromised of better men who better educated, better known, and politically experienced than the President. The original members of the Republican Party contained the most fractious members of the party. In fact all four of the cabinet members of had originally campaigned against the President against Lincoln against him for the Presidency, They Senator William Seward of New York, Senator Salmon Chase of Ohio, Senator Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania and Judge Edward Bates of Missouri.Bates's tenure as Attorney General generally met with mixed reviews. On the one hand, he was important in carrying out some of Lincoln's earlier war policies, including the arbitrary arrest of southern sympathizers and seditious northerners. On the other hand, as Lincoln's policies became more radical, Bates became increasingly irrelevant. Bates disagreed with Lincoln on emancipation and the recruitment of blacks into the Union Army.He would be replaced by James Speed. Each of these men spoke highly of the President but called him an inferior candidate. Yet, Lincoln possessed the political confidence to take on these men on one to one. He took his political rivals and incorporated them in his cabinet believing that their collective talent and patriotism his would allow the Union to survive.

Seward became Secretary of State,Chase to be Secretary of the Treasury, Cameron to Secretary of War later taken by Edwin Stanton . Secretary Chase implemented a unified nationwide banking system with the National Banking Act, and devised the idea of utilizing paper currency to function as war notes. The "greenback" bills, which came in various denominations, became the basis for the federal paper money system that Americans use today. In order to collect taxes to finance the government's war effort, he also established the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which later became known as the Internal Revenue Service. Chase was eventually fired but appointed of the Supreme Court of the United States.6 .The remaining Democrats were given posts as a gesture of goodwill, Gideon Wells was made Secretary of the Navy. Welles found the Naval Department in disarray, with Southern officers resigning en masse. His first major action was to dispatch the Navy's most powerful warship, the USS Powhatan, to relieve Fort Sumter on Lincoln's instructions. Unfortunately, Secretary of State Seward had just ordered the Powhatan to Fort Pickens, Florida on his own authority, ruining whatever chance Major Robert Anderson had of withstanding the assault. Several weeks later, when Seward argued for a blockade of Southern ports, Welles argued vociferously against the action but was eventually overruled by Lincoln. Despite his successes, Welles was never at ease in the Cabinet. His anti-English sentiments caused him to clash with Seward, and Welles's conservative stances led to arguments with Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and War Secretary Edwin M. Stanton.

Stanton was the only cabinet member to take Lincoln’s security seriously, and after the assassination he became preoccupied with bringing the killers to justice, Secretary of the Treasury, second term Hugh McCulloch, though he was anti-slavery he believed that whites were superior black., Interior Secretary John Usher was swapped out for James Harlan, one of Lincoln's staunchest supporters in the Senate. Another contender for the 1860 presidential nomination, he finished third on the first ballot, behind Lincoln and Seward was Simon Cameron. He threw his support to Lincoln only after wrangling a promise from Lincoln's staff that he would be given a cabinet post. Lincoln was unaware of this deal at the time it was made, but he decided reluctantly to honor the promise once elected. Cameron refused to follow Lincoln's directions and his term was marked by scandals and corruption, ultimately leading to a censure vote from the House of Representatives.

Of course it would have been a disaster for the North who depended on Southern Cotton and money. New York City was an divided city. Even though it was a Northern city it directly depended on the South both for export of cotton and the money it brought in. Southerners deposited their money in northern banks. Some banks today got their start from the slave trade. But there were some members of the Union Army were slave owners. Grant owned slaves. In fact he owned several slaves. Grant owned a slave named William Jones, whom he freed in 1859. Between 1854 and 1859 Grant worked and lived on an 850-acre farm in Missouri, near St. Louis, that was owned by his father-in-law. Grant’s wife, Julia, also owned slaves, and during Grant’s management of the farm he worked along with one of them, a man named Dan

If he knew about it he was complicit. He did own them and there is no escaping that.In December 1862, Grant issued General Order # 11, which expelled all Jews from the three states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi

I checked up on the charge that Grant had exiled Jews from the border states, and yes, he had. In an effort to rid that region of the black market cotton trade, Grant saw a number of Jewish names among the black marketeers. So he rationalized he could solve the problem by just ordering all the Jews out of this region. The goal was good, but the means by which Grant sought to accomplish it was hardly worthy of him, and is a stain on his historic reputation.

I had never heard of General Order #11.....I am disgusted.

Grant ended up deporting 100 people.

GENERAL ORDERS No. 11.
HDQRS. 13TH A. C., DEPT. OF THE TENN.,
Holly Springs, December 17, 1862.

The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are hereby expelled from the department within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this order.
Post commanders will see that all of this class of people be furnished passes and required to leave, and any one returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permit from headquarters.
No passes will be given these people to visit headquarters for the purpose of making personal application for trade permits.

By order of Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

The President is not fond of these two agencies. Both have had budgets cut. I would expand the authority of the NSA and FBI.If you get a government or teaching job you must provide fingerprints so they can do a background check. Sometimes you have to fee to the federal and state government to do this. When I had to apply for a financial license, I had to pay a fee or background check if I passed the test along with my fingerprints taken. In some highly secured federal areas you must provide a hand scan or pupil scan. This should be applied to everyone entering the country and cross checked with a database especially people who live in known countries who affiliate with known terrorist groups,.