SCHUYLER COLFAX (1832-1885) Speaker of the House during the Civil War and Grant's vice president whose career was ruined by his involvement in the ""Credit Mobilier"" scandal. Fine content A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. Washington June 11 1861 to his partner in the St. Joseph Valley Register Alfred Wheeler. In part: ""...By last account from Springfield it is not certain that Smith's [Caleb Blood Smith] to be in but I guess I am out. Smith's Soap Factory Mex. War Commission & Railroad management in Cincinnati are ugly matters for Lincoln to get over...factions of the North [are] saying that L. wants to appoint him but does not wish to offend Northern Inda. which all seems for me & urging them to get signatures privately to a recommendation for him and send them to Springfield. I could have thousands all over the State if I had descended to this kind of electioneering. But rather not speak of it in the Register. Smith's friends have been very malignant in their attacks on me as perhaps you have heard..."". It was alleged that Caleb Smith was offered the post of Secretary of the Interior as payment for delivering the votes of the Indiana Delegation at the 1860 Republican Convention in Chicago. Lincoln did not like Colfax personally and considered him a ""little intriguer...not trustworthy.""