How McCulloch Was Constrained to Serve
For two arduous years Hugh McCulloch, banker of Indianapolis, served in organizing the Currency Control. He was looking forward to release and repose at the second Administration, when the renewed incumbent begged him to become secretary of the treasury. He remonstrated.
“But I could not help myself,” he confessed to Janet Jennings. “Mr. Lincoln looked at me with his sad, weary eyes, and throwing his arm over my shoulder, said:
“‘You must; the country needs you!’”
That was a gesture worth all the elegant tones in the elocution-books.