by Larry Tagg
315 “The President may be a fool”: Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 237.
315 “I can only trust in God”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 438.
316 “My Dear Sir:”: ibid., p. 444.
316 “had imparted no vigor”: Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 1999), p. 352.
317 “reign of hell on earth”: October 1, 1862, Richmond Enquirer, from Brayton Harris, p. 201.
317 “What shall we call him?”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 588.
317 “strengthen the South”: October 7, 1862, Staunton Spectator, from Ayers, p. 332.
317 “is not that a human being”: Gienapp, p. 116.
317 “Mr. Lincoln will do his best”: October 7, 1862, London Times, Hugh Brogan, ed., The Times Reports the American Civil War (London: Times Books, 1975), p. 86, 88.
Page 317 “Lincoln will be known”: October 21, 1862, London Times, from Harper, p. 178.
318 “a monstrous usurpation”: September 24, 1862, Chicago Times, Mitgang, p. 303.
319 “The ‘Irrepressible Conflict’ upon Us”: September 24, 1862, The Crisis.
319 “Is not this a Death Blow” and “We have no doubt”: October 1, 1862, The Crisis.
319 “Lincoln has swung loose”: September 24, 1862, New York World, reprinted in October 1, 1862, The Crisis.
319 “act of Revolution” and “the restoration”: September 23, 1862, New York Evening Express, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 380.
321 “The measure is wholly unauthorized”: Louisville Journal, reprinted in October 8, 1862, National Intelligencer, Mitgang, p. 313.
321 “He said he had studied the matter”: Entry of September 26, 1862, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 50.
321 “Having an hour to spare”: Springfield Republican, reprinted in November 29, 1862, Cincinnati Gazette, from Harper, p. 179.
321 “Dictator”: William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), p. 97.
321 “The Presdt’s late Proclamation”: Letter of September 25, 1862, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 481.
322 “[T]he good of the country”: Letter of October (c. 29), 1862, to his wife, ibid., p. 515.
322 “absurd proclamation”: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 559.
322 “The Proclamation was ridiculed”: September 30, 1862, New York World, from Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 238.
322 “countermarch [the army]” and “his sword across the government’s policy”: ibid., p. 231n.
322 “officers of rank”: Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004), p. 107
322 “Potomac Army clique”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 385
322 “an ill-timed, mischief making instrument”: Mahood, p. 114
323 “I did not enlist”: Letter of February 19, 1863, from Brayton Harris, p. 201.
323 “If the president makes this a war”: ibid.
323 “Those men of the South”: ibid.
323 “The army is dissatisfied”: Letter of September 24, 1862, L.A. Whiteley to James Gordon Bennett, from George Winston Smith and Charles Judah, eds., Life in the North During the Civil War: A Source History (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1966), p. 91.
323 “His proclamation”: William C. Davis, Lincoln ‘s Men (NY: Touchstone, 1999), p. 93.
323 “a common ambulance”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 387.
324 Instances of resistance to the draft “Northern Draft of 1862,” “The American Civil War”, http://www.etymonline.com/cw/draft.htm
324 “an exercise of despotic power”: Entry for November 28, 1862, Browning, p. I: 588.
324 “useless and … mischievous proclamations”: Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 174.
324 “The proclamation”: Mark E. Neely, The Fate of Liberty (NY: Oxford Press, 1991), p. 64.
324 “seeking to inaugurate a reign of terror”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 382.
325 “Stop him! Hold him!”: Letters of September 26, 1862 and November 15, 1862, Hugh Campbell to Joseph Holt, ibid.
325 “The people of Yankeedom”: October 2, 1862, Richmond Dispatch, Mitgang, p. 315-316.
Chapter 25: Emancipation Rebuked
Page 326 “ruined the Republican party”: Entry of December 5, 1862, Browning, p. I: 592.
326 “will defeat me”: John C. Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency (Da Capo Press, 1997), p. 13.
326 “The Constitution as it is”: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 560.
326 “another advance”: ibid.
326 “the despot Lincoln”: Gray, p. 112.
326 “Party feeling runs high in Ohio”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 614.
326 Refugee cautionary tale: October 22, 1862, Valley Spirit, from Ayers, p. 329.
327 John Stuart Todd’s refusal to debate: Donald, Lincoln, p. 382.
327 “even if the streets be made to run red with blood”: ibid.
327 “This election decides”: Joel H. Silbey, A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868 (NY: W. W. Norton, 1977), p. 85-6n.
327 “a swarthy inundation”: ibid.
327 “a proposal for the butchery”: Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 302.
328 “literally bending under the weight”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 382
328 “Things look badly”: Letter of October 28, 1862, to John Nicolay, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 52.
328 “ill wind”: Goodwin, p. 485.
328 “a vote of want of confidence”: November 7, 1862, New York Times, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 383.
328 “I could not conceive it possible”: McClure, p. 113.
328 “that unwise, ill-timed and seditious”: V. Jacque Voegeli, Free but Not Equal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), p. 64.
328 “No Emancipation”: ibid.
328 “Abolition Slaughtered”: ibid.
328 “The Home of Lincoln Condemns the Proclamation”: ibid.
328 “Fanaticism, Abolitionism and Niggerism Repudiated”: October 22, 1862, Valley Spirit, from Ayers, p. 327-8.
329 “unless there is an immediate & continued change”: Letter of November 8, 1862, from David Dudley Field, Lincoln, Papers.
329 “The New York and other elections”: Letter of November 9, 1862, John C. Ropes to John C. Gray, from Tap, p. 138.
329 “The people after their gigantic preparations”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 610-11.
329 “We saw the President of the United States”: ibid., p. 611.
330 “I do not think”: Letter of November 5, 1862, from John Cochrane, Lincoln, Papers.
330 “Probably two-thirds”: Entry of November 5, 1862, Strong, p. III: 271-272.
330 “This great nation”: Letter of November 5, 1862, from S.W. Oakey, Lincoln, Papers.
330 “I deplore the result”: Letter of November 8, 1862, from Charles Sumner, Lincoln, Papers.
331 “I think the country is ruined”: Waugh, p. 12.
331 “it was not your fault”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 606-7.
331 “[Lincoln] is ignorant”: Letter of October 29, 1862, George Bancroft to Francis Lieber, from Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered, p. 62.
331 “All the Blame on Mr. Lincoln”: October 22, 1862, The Crisis.
331 “The democrats were left in a majority”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 494.
332 “I fear you entertain too favorable a view”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 510, 511.
332 “Many were in favor”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 652.
Page 332 “Officers and men unite” and “Upon every occasion”: November 12, 1862, Valley Spirit, from Ayers, p. 329-330.
332 “and a few even going so far”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 342.
332 “which the Army of the Union will never forgive”: ibid., p. 342-3.
333 “When the chief had passed”: Nevins, 1862-1863., p. 332.
333 “I a
m much afraid”: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Ed. Michael Burlingame (Carbondale: S. Ill. Univ. Press, 2007), p. 117.
333 “You can not change Lincoln’s head”: Letter of October 27, 1862, Adam Gurowski to John A. Andrew, from Fischer, p. 100.
333 “tow-string of a President”: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 183.
333 “The dogmas of the quiet past”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 537.
333 “Mr. Lincoln’s whole soul”: Letter of November 26, 1862, David Davis to Leonard Swett, from Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 235. The proposal in Lincoln’s December 1862 Annual Message, and his signing of a contract for a colonization of 500 blacks on Vache Island, off the coast of Haiti on December 31, 1862, were Lincoln’s last public attempts to advance colonization. The latter project met with disaster, so that on July 1, 1864, John Hay wrote in his diary that Lincoln had given up on the scheme “I am glad the President has sloughed off that idea of colonization.” For excellent discussions of the history and politics of Lincoln’s colonization schemes, see Michael Vorenberg, “The Politics of Black Colonization,” The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 23; and Philip Shaw Paludan, “Lincoln and Colonization: Policy or Propaganda?” The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 23.
334 “May the Lord”: Letter of December 3, 1862, James Sloan Gibbons to Garrison, from Randall, Spring field to Gettysburg, p. II: 240-1.
334 “The President is demented” and “borders upon hopeless lunacy”: December 5, 1862, The Liberator, from Mayer, p. 543-4.
334 “A man so manifestly”: December 26, 1862, The Liberator, ibid.
334 “If there is a worse place than Hell”: Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 351-2.
334 “How long”: Rawley, p. 99.
334 “The War is a failure!”: December 18, 1862, Albany Atlas and Argus, from Gary Gallagher, ed., The Fredericksburg Campaign (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 64.
334 “The feeling of utter hopelessness”: Letter of December 1862, Joseph Medill to Schuyler Colfax, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 236.
335 “We are indulging in no hyperbole”: December 27, 1862, Harper’s Weekly.
336 “A year ago we laughed”: Entry for December 18, 1862, Strong, p. III: 281-2.
336 “almost everybody is dissatisfied,” “utterly disgusted” and if things are not more successfully managed”: Letters of December 17, 19, 1862, from Nicolay and Hay, Observations, p. 117-18.
336 “I am losing confidence”: Letter of December 30, 1862, John D. Baldwin to Charles Sumner, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 241.
336 “would be received with great satisfaction”: Letter of December 17, 1862, George F. Williams to Sumner, from David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), p. 89.
336 “The days are growing shorter”: Guelzo, Redeemer President, p. 354.
336 “Folly, folly folly reigns supreme”: Letter of Dec. 18, 1862, Zachary Chandler to his wife, from Randall, Midstream, p. 134, and Nicolay and Hay, Observations, p. 118.
337 “Seward must be got out”: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 205.
Page 337 “They seemed to think”: Entry of December 19, 1862, Bates, p. 269
337 “a back stairs and malign influence”: Entry of December 16, 1862, Browning, p. I: 597-98.
337 “now and then for talk”: Letter of September 20, 1862, Chase to John Sherman, Chase, Correspondence, p. III: 278.
337 “Many speeches were made”: Entry of December 17, Browning, p. I: 598-9.
337 “vigorous & successful” and “result of [the] combined wisdom”: December 17, 1862, Lincoln, Papers.
338 “exceedingly violent”: Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 243.
338 “They wish to get rid of me” and “We are now on the brink”: Entry of December 18, 1862, Browning, p. I: 600-601.
338 “perplexed to death”: Letter of December 25, 1862, S. Noble to E.B. Washburne, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 243.
338 “the president looked haggard”: Letter of December 22, 1862, T.S. Bell to Joseph Holt, ibid., p. 243-4n.
338 “His eyes were almost deathly”: Noah Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, Ed. Herbert Mitgang (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989), p. 15.
339 “in milder spirit than it met”: Nicolay and Hay, Observations, p. 130.
339 “Secretary Chase had a very different tone”: ibid., p. 131.
339 Cabinet rumors in Washington: Entry for December 20, 1862, Bates, p. 270.
339 Chase resignation episode: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles, p. I: 201-2.
340 “I can ride on now”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 405.
340 “The President of the United States is responsible”: Entry of December 31, 1862, George B. Smith Diary, from Frank Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 39.
340 “The year 1862”: December 31, 1862, The Crisis, ibid.
340 “We feel no reliance”: Letter of December 19, 1862, G.F. Forbes to Charles Sumner, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 167.
340 “The first of January”: Letter of December 18, 1862, J.M. Forbes to Charles Sumner, ibid.
340 “Old Abe will do nothing decent”: Letter of December 24, 1862, from Donald, Charles Sumner, p. 89.
340 “The President says”: Letter of December 28, 1862, to J. M. Forbes, Sumner, Selected Letters, p. 136.
341 “I do not believe Mr. Lincoln”: Letter of December 26, 1862, Orestes Brownson to Charles Sumner, from Donald, Charles Sumner, p. 89, and Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 241.
341 “general air of doubt”: December 27, 1862, New York Times, from Goodwin, p. 497.
341 “Will Lincoln’s backbone carry him through?”: Entry of December 30, 1862, Strong, p. III: 284.
Chapter 26: Emancipation Proclaimed
342 “will do no act”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 434.
342 “abstain from all violence”: Lincoln, Works, p. VI: 30.
343 “And upon this act”: ibid.
343 “Well, what do you intend doing?”: Guelzo, Emancipation Proclamation, p. 181.
344 New Year’s Day Music Hall and Tremont Temple meetings: Mayer, p. 545-7.
344 “THE PROCLAMATION”: ibid., p. 547.
344 “All trials are swallowed up”: Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 169.
Page 344 “midnight darkness”: Mayer, p. 547.
344 “a bewilderment of joy”: Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 170.
344 “a perfect furor of acclamation”: ibid.
345 “a wicked, atrocious and revolting deed”: January 3, 1863, Chicago Times, from Voegeli, p. 76-7.
345 “crowningact of Lincoln’s folly,” etc.: Issues of January 1, 3, 6, 10, 18, 1863, Dubuque Herald, from Klement, p. 43.
345 “the most foolish joke”: January 10, 1863, Chatfield Democrat, ibid., p. 44.
345 “a half-witted Usurper”: January 7, 1863, The Crisis.
345 “‘A’ stands for Old Abe”: May 6, 1863, The Crisis.
345 “a dead letter”: January 3, 1863, New York Herald, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 176.
“miserable balderdash”: February 7, 1863, New York World, ibid., p. 36-7.
345 “not merely futile, but ridiculous” and also “Lincoln and Emancipation,” see http://www.civilwarhome.com/lincolnandproclamation.htm
345 “The best thing”: January 19, 1863, New York Evening Express, from Hans Trefousse, First Among Equals: Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation During His Administration (NY: Fordham University Press, 2005), p. 66.
346 “vile and infamous”: March 28, 1863, Metropolitan Record, ibid.
346 “cold-blooded invitation to insurrection and but chery”: Guelzo, Emancipation Proclamation, p. 189.
346 “bloody, barbarous, revolutionary�
�: ibid., p. 187.
346 “We scarcely know”: January 3, 1863, Louisville Daily Democrat, from Trefousse, First Among Equals, p. 66.
346 Kentucky reaction: Letter of January 7, 1863, Lincoln to Green Adams, note 1, Lincoln, Papers.
346 “I am despondent”: Entry of January 30, 1863, Browning, p. I: 621.
346 “useless” and “mischievous”: Entry of January 2, 1863, ibid., p. I: 609.
346 “a puff of wind” and “The Emancipation Proclamation”: Guelzo, Emancipation Proclamation, p. 222.
347 “We all agreed”: Browning, p. I: 613.
347 “as the only means”: Entry of January 19, 1863, ibid., p. I: 616.
347 “there was a strong attachment”: Letter of April 16, 1863, Thurlow Weed to John Bigelow, from Silbey, p. 84.
347 “sloughing off the secessionist sympathizers”: Letter of January 21, 1862, Abraham Oakey Hall to William H. Seward, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 422; see also Gray, p. 129.
347 “I know of no man of sense”: Letter of January 1, 1863, Benjamin Curtis to Greenough, Gray, p. 130.
347 Benjamin R. Curtis’s constitutional objections: Guelzo, Emancipation Proclamation, p. 190-1.
347 “a power to change Constitutional rights”: ibid., p. 191.
348 “undoubtedly one of the most startling exercises”: ibid., p. 191-2.
348 “have more than One Hundred Thousand”: January 3, 1863, New York Tribune, from Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 235.
348 “The proclamation of the President”: New York Journal of Commerce, reprinted in January 7, 1863, Detroit Free Press, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 216.
348 “[He] has made no friends”: January 13, 1863, Illinois State Register, ibid.
349 “Strange phenomenon”: Letter of January 6, 1863, James Garfield to Burke Hinsdale, from Goodwin, p. 501.
Page 349 “The feeling prevails”: James Ford Rhodes, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (NY: Macmillan, 1913), p. IV: 221.
349 “we had made a great mistake”: Entry of January 10, 1863, Browning, I: 612.
349 “I can understand the awful reluctance”: Gray, p. 128-9.
349 “The army is tired”: Packard, p. 153.
350 “many of our officers”: Entry for January 1, 1863, Browning, p. I: 609.
350 “conversed with a great many”: Entry for January 29, 1863, ibid., p. I: 621.
