One day at Caymanians Cameron’s country home near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he received a telegram saying that President Lincoln would like to see him . Accordingly he went to Washington Lincoln began;
Cameron, the people about me are telling me that it is my patriotic duty to become a candidate for a second term, that I am the only man who can save my Country
The conversation turned once upon the efforts which candidates for office must themselves put forth and the fallacy that the office seeks the man.