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405 “The long, ghastly procession”: ibid., p. 299-300.
405 “It makes me sick”: Letter of May 29, 1864, John A Hiestand to Thaddeus Stevens, from Randall and Current, p. 112.
405 “I pray god”: Letter of February 6, 1864, A. Wattles to Horace Greeley, ibid.
405 “Mr. Lincoln may mean well”: Letter of March 7, 1864, S. Wolf to Rev. Dr. McMurdy, ibid.
406 “You and I have reached a point”: Lincoln, Works, p. VII: 419.
406 “clear and cold” and “a singularly violent politician”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 152.
406 “mischievous in his schemes”: July 1, 1864, from Allan Nevins, The War for the Union: Organized War to Victory, 1864-1865 (NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971), p. 88.
407 “He is no statesman” and “lawless and daring”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. III: 131.
407 “The important point”: Entry of July 4, 1864, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 205
408 “In the disorder”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 154-5.
408 “If [the Radicals] choose”: Entry of July 4, 1864, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 204-6
408 “Washington was in a ferment”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 159.
409 “We have five times as many generals”: Frank Vandiver, Jubal’s Raid (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1960), p. 142.
409 “Get down, you damn fool”: Entry of July 11, 1864, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p.
Page 409 “Grant’s distance from the scene”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 162.
409 “egregious blunder”: Goodwin, p. 644.
409 “contemptible”: Entry of July 13, 1864, Welles, p. II: 76
409 “our nation humiliation”: Entry of July 15, 1864, ibid., p. II: 77.
409 “In the country at large”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 163-4.
410 “the great noodles”: July 27, 1864, from Waugh, p. 244.
410 “It will be seen”: Reprinted in July 30, 1864, Illinois Daily State Journal, from Harper, p. 126.
410 “One tall, and bony and lank”: Reprinted in July 27, 1864, The Crisis.
411 “Lincoln is deader than dead”: Letter of July 20, 1864, Samuel Medary to Charles Medary, from David E. Long, The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1994), p. 122.
411 “Gold goes up like a balloon”: Nevins, 1864-1865, p. 95.
411 “Among the masses”: Sherwin, p. 496.
411 “great and almost universal dissatisfaction”: Letter of July 11, 1864, Chase to William C. Noyes, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 524.
411 “Took tea at Mr. Longfellow’s”: Lawrence, William, Life of Amos A. Lawrence, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1888), p. 195.
411 “not higher than it was”: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man, p. 186.
411 “This entire administration”: Letter of August 3, 1864, James Grimes to C. H. Ray, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 524.
412: Text of the Wade-Davis Manifesto: http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/DocsWadeDavisManifesto.htm
412 “the dissatisfaction”: August 6, 1864, New York Herald, from Stephenson, p. 372.
412 “arrogance”: August 6, 1864, New York Herald, from Maihafer, p. 194-5.
412 “As President”: August 6, 1864, New York Herald, from Randall and Current, p. 209.
412 “a blow between the eyes”: August 9, 1864, New York World, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 524.
412 “coming as it did”: Brooks, Washington, D. C., p. 156.
412 “Its appearance created something like a panic”: ibid., p. 155.
412 “No such bomb”: Letter of August 6, 1864, from J. K. Herbert, Benjamin Butler, Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler during the Period of the Civil War, Ed. Jessie Ames Marshall, 5 vols (The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass., 1917), p. V: 8, 9.
413 “Union men were quite unanimous”: Riddle, p. 305.
413 “If the Republican party desires to succeed”: Richard N. Current, Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1980), p. 202.
413 “Lincoln is gone”: Letter of August 6, 1864, from J. K. Herbert, Butler, p. V: 9.
413 “I told Mr Lincoln”: Lincoln, Works, p. VII: 514n.
413 Whitelaw Reid convinced Lincoln’s reelection was hopeless: Letter of August, 22, 1864, from Reid, Chase, Correspondence, p. 423-4.
413 “Things in a political way”: Letter of August 14, 1864, G. C. Rice to Washburne, from Randall and Current, p. 211.
413 “everywhere in the towns”: Letter of August 25, 1864, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 211-12.
413 “from pure necessity” and “get a competent, loyal President”: Letter of July 18, 1864, Edgar Conkling to Benjamin Butler, from Zornow, p. 111.
413 “The present condition”: Letter of August 16, 1864, from John H. Martindale, Butler, p. 54-5.
413 “I have seen and talked”: Letter of August 17, 1864, from J. W. Shaffer, ibid., p. 67.
Page 413 “Political affairs in this state”: Letter of August 20, 1864, John A. Gray to Montgomery Blair, Lincoln, Papers.
414 “The people seemed to be utterly spiritless”: Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917), p. III:102.
414 “feeling of despondency”: Entry for August 13, 1864, Welles, p. II: 103.
414 “Distrust and disintegration”: McClure, p. 125.
414 “I found the most alarming depression”: Letter of September 8, 1864, Leonard Swett to his wife, from David E. Long, p. 235.
414 “Unless material changes can be wrought”: Waugh, p. 265.
414 “disastrous panic”: Letter of August 28, 1864, ibid., p. 264.
414 “The feeling against Old Abe is daily increasing”: Sherwin, p. 496.
414 “The people regard Mr. Lincoln’s candidacy as a misfortune”: Rhodes, p. IV: 518-9.
414 “inconceivably impudent”: Letter of August 25, 1864, to John Nicolay, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 211-12.
414 “I know that nine-tenths”: August 9, 1864, from Rhodes, p. IV: 517.
415 “Under the figure of a jester”: Reprinted in August 18, 1864, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
415 “[W]e determine him”: Reprinted in August 1, 1864, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
415 “has brought even honesty into disrepute”: Entry for September 8, 1864, Bates, p. 404.
415 “the only way to redeem the State”: ibid.
415 “The fact begins to shine out”: August 12, 1864, Richmond Examiner, reprinted in August 16, 1864, New York World, from Waugh, p. 262.
415 “Mr. Lincoln is already beaten”: Rhodes, p. 518.
416 “to concentrate the union strength”: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 326.
416 “Chase will be there”: Letter of August 17, 1864, from J.W. Shaffer, Butler, p. 68.
417 “He spoke as if he felt a pressing need”: Schurz, Reminiscences, p. III: 103-4.
417 “I spent an hour with him”: McClure, p. 125.
417 “To be wounded”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p., 156.
417 “You think I don’t know”: Letter of August 11, 1864, from J. K. Herbert, Butler, p. 35.
417 “In the memory of men”: Brooks, Washington D.C., p. 157.
417 “One denounces Mr. Lincoln”: August 10, 1864, New York Times, from Waugh, p. 264.
418 “This morning”: Lincoln, Works, p. VII: 514.
419 “Mr. Raymond, who has just left me”: ibid., p. VII: 514-5n.
419 “I feel compelled”: Letter of August 22, 1864, from Henry Raymond, Lincoln, Papers.
420 “Executive Mansion”: Lincoln, Works, p. VII: 517.
421 “There have been men”: ibid., p. VII: 507.
421 “The President appeared to be not the pleasant joker”: ibid.
422 “to follow his plan”: Nicolay and Hay, A History, p. IX: 221.
422 “Out Lincoln”: Entry for September 1, 1864, Gurowski, Diary, 1863-1865, p. 329.
422 “Old Abe
is quite in trouble”: Letter of August 17, 1864, McCormick to Manton Marble, from Waugh, p. 272.
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424 “Dear Lincoln”: Letter of August 24, 1864, from M. W. Delahay, Lincoln, Papers.
425 “the people’s eyes”: Letter of November 14, 1863, from Sears, The Young Napoleon, p.
425 “with a statesman’s vision”: ibid., p. 360.
426 “your only fortnight of peace”: Letter of August 10, 1864, ibid., p. 369
426 “I have no doubt”: Letter of August 21, 1864, ibid.
Page 426 “politically the chances are for McClellan”: Letter of August 13, 1864, from his wife, Butler, p. V: 47-48.
426 “useless and inexpedient”: Letter of August 31, 1864, George Wilkes to E.B. Washburne, from Randall and Current, p. 224.
427 “Mr. Lincoln will go down to posterity”: Reprint in October 5, 1864, The Crisis.
427 “They have a peace leg and a war leg”: Waugh, p. 89.
427 “One week before the Chicago convention”: ibid., p. 307.
427 “makes Lincoln an anchor”: Entry of October 2, 1864, Gurowski, Diary, 1863-1865, p. 366.
427 “Atlanta is our and fairly won”: Raymond, p. 544.
427 “There has been the most extraordinary change”: Letter of September 8, 1864, Zachary Chandler to his wife, from David E. Long, p. 235.
427 “There has never been an instance”: Letter of September 8, 1864, Leonard Swett to his wife, ibid.
427 “There was no time”: McClure, p. 124.
428 “the duty of all Unionists”: Letter of September 5, 1864, from Theodore Tilton to Anna Dickinson, from Randall and Current, p. 226.
428 “The conspiracy against Mr. Lincoln”: Letter of September 20, 1864, Thurlow Weed to William Seward, from David E. Long, p. 237.
428 “I shall fight like a savage”: Letter of August 30, 1864 from John Nicolay, Lincoln, Papers.
428 “Henceforth we fly the banner”: September 6, 1864, New York Tribune, from Maihafer, p. 204.
429: Lieber’s letter to Sumner: Sumner, Memoirs, p. IV: 196.
429 “I may accomplish nothing”: Letter of September 2, 1864, Zachary Chandler to his wife, from David E. Long, p. 240.
429 “You very well know”: Letter of September 23, 1864, Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 18.
429 “I only wish”: Trefousse, Benjamin Franklin Wade, p. 231.
429 “He says sometimes he feels so disgusted”: Letter of September 26, 1864, from J.K. Herbert, Butler, p. 167.
430 “trickster” and “truckler”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 366.
430 “not to aid in the triumph of Mr. Lincoln”: Letter of September 21, 1864, Fremont to “Messrs. George L. Stearns and others,” from Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America, Duringthe Great Rebellion (Washington: James J. Chapman, 1882), p. 426-7.
430 “I would cut off both hands”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. III: 246.
430 “soon became one of great acrimony”: Waugh, p. 315.
431 “Lincoln Upon the Battlefield”: Reprinted in August 3, 1864, The Crisis.
431 “Abe may crack his jolly jokes”: Lamon, Recollections, p. 146.
432 “No, there has already been too much said”: ibid., p. 145.
432 “If the loyal people”: Reprinted in July 26, 1864, Cincinnati Enquirer, from Harper, p. 215.
432 “The most powerful monarchy”: August 7, 1864, Illinois State Register, Mitgang, p. 406-7.
432 “We have no honeyed words”: Reprinted in August 10, 1864, The Crisis.
432 “There is some excuse”: August 26, 1864, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
432 “has swapped the Goddess of Liberty”: August 29, 1864, Ohio Statesman, from Harper, p. 229.
432 “May Almighty God forbid”: William Hanchett, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), p. 18.
Page 434 “The Lincoln Catechism”: April 15, 1863, The Crisis.
435 “foul-tongued and ribald punster”: October 8, 1864, London Evening Standard, from Bloom, p. 48-9.
435 “that concentrated quintescence”: November 5, 1864, Leeds Intelligencer, ibid., p. 49.
435 “These are the terms”: September 24, 1864, Harper’s Weekly.
435 “The President is too busy”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 538.
436 Lincoln’s campaign moves: Randall, Mr. Lincoln, p. 329.
436 Political officials tithe to the party: Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered, p. 177.
436 Party finances: Randall and Current, p. 252.
436 “All the power and influence”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1913), p. 261.
437“I am just enough”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 196.
437 “one of the most solemn days”: Nicolay and Hay, A History, p. IX: 375.
437 “found it difficult”: Brooks, Washington D.C., p. 196.
437 “seemed to have a keen and surprised regret”: Nicolay and Hay, A History, p. IX: 375.
437 “It is a little singular”: Entry for November 8, 1864, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 233.
438 “I shall never forget the fire”: Dana, p. 262.
438 “went awkwardly and hospitably to work”: Entry for November 8, 1864, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 235.
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439 “The size of his majority”: Schurz, Reminiscences, p. 106
439 “I am here by the blunders”: Hugh McCulloch, Men and Measures of Halfa Century (NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888), p. 162.
440 “No man was ever elected”: Letter of September 5, 1864, from “Mr. Sedgwick,” John Murray Forbes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, ed. Sarah Forbes Hughes, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), p. II:101.
440 “Nothing but the undying attachment”: Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered, p. 169.
440 “Mr. Lincoln is re-consecrated”: Entry for November 10, 1864, Gurowski Diary, 1863-1865, p. 394.
440 “to keep out worse people”: Nevins, 1864-1865, p. 142.
440 “not that Abraham Lincoln”: Address of February 7, 1865, from Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 59.
440 “There was no enthusiasm”: ibid., p. III: 662.
440 “the heaviest calamity”: Waugh, p. 357.
440 “As the bird of Arabia”: December 3, 1863, London Punch, Mitgang, p. 423.
441 “to the strength of his party”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. III: 582.
442 “The renewal of Mr. Lincoln’s term”: ibid., p. III: 582-3.
442 “We can regard the reappointment of Mr. Lincoln”: November 22, 1864, London Times, Brogan, p. 153-4.
442 “Yesterday”: November 9, 1864, Richmond Dispatch, Mitgang, p. 417.
443 “the time may come”: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 152.
443 “The war will cease”: ibid.
443 “absolute, unqualified submission”: Nevins, 1864-1865, p. 210.
443 “maintenance of the destructive policy”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. III: 652.
443 “Ridicule would seem to be the first and only weapon”: December 14, 1864, The Crisis.
443 Davis demanded a test of strength in the House: The Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 38th Congress, Second Session, p. 48.
Page 444 “[Wendell] Phillips has just returned”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. III: 663.
444 “I claim not to have controlled events”: Lincoln, Works, p. VII: 282.
444 “king’s cure”: ibid., p. VIII: 254.
444 “For a moment”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 187.
445 “drummed up from the riff-raff”: Sumner, Memoirs, p. 226.
445 “the most absurd”: Charles Hallan McCarthy, Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction (NY: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901), p. 333.
445 “The perturbation in Washington”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 202.
446 “Let me have that one condition”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV:
61.
446 “None of the Cabinet were advised”: Entry of February 2, 1865, Welles, p. II: 235.
446 “Fools meet and separate”: Letter of February 6, 1865, from Chandler to wife, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 355.
446 “It did not meet with favor”: Entry of February 6, 1865, Welles, p. 251.
447 “Flocks of women”: Dispatch of March 12, 1865, to the Sacramento Union, from Noah Brooks, Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, Ed. Michael Burlingame (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. 165.
447 “There was great want”: Entry of March 4, 1865, Welles, p. II: 251.
447 Second Inaugural Address: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 332-3.
449 “There was a leaden stillness”: Ronald C. White, Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 184.
449 “I believe it is not immediately popular”: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 356.
450 “We did not conceive”: March 6, 1865, Chicago Times, from Ronald C. White, p. 191.
450 “with a blush of shame”: March 6, 1865, New York World, ibid., p. 190-191.
450 “substitution of religion”: March 6, 1865, New York World, from Goodwin, p. 700.
450 “The President’s theology”: March 6, 1865, New York World, from Ronald C. White, p. 194.
450 “an effort to avoid any commitment”: March 5, 1865, New York Herald, p. 190.
450 “He makes no boasts”: March 6, 1865, New York Times, ibid., p. 189.
450 “Thus in a day”: March 6, 1865, New York Tribune.
450 “We are not”: March 17, 1865, New York Tribune.
451 “His face was ragged with care”: July, 1891, Century Magazine, from J. Seymour Currey, Chicago: Its History and Its Builders: A Century of Marvelous Growth (Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1912), p. 157.
451 “He looked jaded”: Letter of January 12, 1866, Speed to William Herndon, from Wilson and Davis, p. 156, 157; also Joshua Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (Louisville: John P. Morton and Company, Louisville, 1884), p. 26, 28.
451 “Poor Mr. Lincoln”: Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (NY: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 157
451 “In their private chamber”: ibid., p. 158.
451 “darted at him”: Carpenter, p. 276.
451 “It seems as though the bare thought”: ibid.
