September 5, 1861 — Loyalty of the Employees of the Executive Mansion

The New York Herald, New York, NY

The recent Intimations that some of the employes at the White House are secessionists are entirely unjust. Mr. Stackpole and all the other men there have been ready at any moment to take their guns in defence of the capital. They are faithful Union men, familiar with their duties, polite and attentive, and very much devoted to the President. It is small business, when the ranks of our army are flush with democrats, to ask the removal of these men on account of their former party politics, or — when we remember the gallant Sixty-ninth and Col. Corcoran — because some of them are Irishmen.

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