26. George W. Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, North Shore, New York, 6 Mar., 18 June 1862, Curtis Papers, Harvard University.
27. Washington correspondence, 6 Mar., Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 1862.
28. Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 1862.
29. Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 8 Mar. 1862.
30. Elihu Burritt to Lincoln, New Britain, Connecticut, 2 June 1862, AL MSS DLC.
31. Holt to David Davis, Washington, 3 May 1863, Davis Papers, IHi.
32. Cincinnati Commercial, 11 Mar. 1862.
33. Washington correspondence, 7 Mar., New York World, 8 Mar. 1862.
34. Henry W. Bellows to his wife, Washington, 6 Mar. 1862, Bellows Papers, MHi.
35. Providence Journal, 8 Mar. 1862.
36. S. A. Raymond to John Sherman, Toledo, 10 Mar. 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
37. Isaac N. Arnold, The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery (Chicago: Clarke, 1866), 275.
38. Boston Courier, n.d., copied in the Boston Evening Journal, 11 Mar. 1862.
39. New York Herald, 8 Mar. 1862.
40. Thomas H. Hicks to Lincoln, Cambridge, Maryland, 18 Mar. 1862, AL MSS DLC.
41. Baltimore American, n.d., copied in the Cincinnati Commercial, 21 Mar. 1862.
42. Stoddard to Martin B. Anderson, Washington, 11 Mar. 1862, Martin B. Anderson Papers, University of Rochester.
43. J. Dille to John Sherman, Newark, 3 July 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
44. Charles Eliot Norton to George Perkins Marsh, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 27 Apr. 1862, Marsh Papers, University of Vermont; Norton to George William Curtis, Cambridge, 8 Mar. 1862, Sara Norton and M. A. De Wolfe Howe, eds., Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 1:252–253.
45. Washington correspondence, 10 Mar., National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 15 Mar. 1862.
46. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 22 Mar. 1862.
47. Cincinnati Commercial, 14 Mar. 1862.
48. Schuyler Colfax to Lincoln, South Bend, Indiana, 18 Oct. 1862, AL MSS DLC.
49. David McCulloch to “Dr. Manning,” Peoria, 12 Mar. 1862, Earnest E. East Papers, IHi.
50. Washington correspondence by John W. Forney, 14 Mar., Philadelphia Press, 15 Mar. 1862.
51. Lincoln to Raymond, Washington, 9 Mar. 1862, CWL, 5:153.
52. Raymond to Lincoln, Albany, 15 Mar. 1862, AL MSS DLC.
53. New York Times, 8 Mar. 1862.
54. Liverpool Post, 20 Mar., copied in the Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 1862; London Star and Dial, n.d., copied in the Philadelphia Press, 13 Apr. 1862.
55. Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1154 (10 Mar. 1862).
56. W. M. Dickson to Friedrich Hassaurek, Cincinnati, 10 Apr., 9 June 1862, Hassaurek Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
57. Michael Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), 73 (journal entry for 9 Mar. 1862).
58. Memo by Crisfield, 10 Mar. 1862, Louisville Democrat, 26 Oct. 1862, copied in the New York Herald, 31 Oct. 1862; Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, [Washington], n.d., Gay Papers, Columbia University.
59. Lincoln to James A. McDougall, Washington, 14 Mar. 1862, CWL, 5:160–161.
60. Schurz, Reminiscences, 2:328–329.
61. Hugh Campbell to Joseph Holt, Philadelphia, 24 July 1862, Holt Papers, DLC.
62. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 11 Mar., Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 15 Mar. 1862.
63. Washington correspondence by Forney, 12 Mar., Philadelphia Press, 13 Mar. 1862.
64. Washington correspondence, 12 Mar., Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 1862.
65. New York Tribune, 24 Mar. 1862.
66. Lincoln to Greeley, Washington, 24 Mar. 1862, CWL, 5:169.
67. Jacob Brinkerhoff to John Sherman, Columbus, 23 Feb. 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
68. Baltimore American, n.d., copied in the Chicago Times, 18 Apr. 1862.
69. Crisfield to his wife, Washington, 25 Apr. 1862, Crisfield Papers, Maryland Historical Society.
70. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall, eds., The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (2 vols.; Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925–1933), 1:541 (entry for 14 Apr. 1862).
71. Washington correspondence, 10 Mar., National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 15 Mar. 1862.
72. CWL, 5:192.
73. Francis F. Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: N. D. Thompson, 1887), 533.
74. Speech at Freeport, Illinois, 27 Aug. 1858, CWL, 3:42.
75. Martin B. Pasternak, Rise Now and Fly to Arms: The Life of Henry Highland Garnet (New York: Garland, 1995), 105.
76. James M. McPherson, ed., The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union (New York: Pantheon Books, 1965), 45; Weekly Anglo-African, 22 Mar. 1862.
77. Beecher, Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), 264.
78. Child to Robert Wallcut, Wayland, Massachusetts, 20 Apr. 1862, Garrison Papers, Boston Public Library; Child to Lucy Osgood, Wayland, Massachusetts, 20 Apr. 1862, Child Letters, ed. Meltzer and Holland, 410.
79. National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 26 Apr. 1862.
80. Washington correspondence, 7 Apr., National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 12 Apr. 1862.
81. Julian to William Lloyd Garrison, Washington, 16 Apr. 1862, Garrison Papers, Boston Public Library.
82. Charles Eliot Norton to George Perkins Marsh, Cambridge, 27 Apr. 1862, Marsh Papers, University of Vermont.
83. Moore and Moore, eds., Lovejoy Speeches, 345.
84. Harriet Martineau, National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 24 Mar. 1859; Samuel May, Jr., to Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Boston, 22 Apr. 1862, in Lillie Buffam Wyman and Arthur Crawford Wyman, Elizabeth Buffam Chace, 1806–1899: Her Life and Environment (2 vols.; Boston: W. B. Clarke, 1914), 1:236.
85. Arnold, Lincoln, 229; Moore and Moore, eds., Lovejoy Speeches, 345.
86. F. D. Parish to John Sherman, Sandusky, 18 Apr. 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
87. G. O. Pond to Lyman Trumbull, Griggsville, 14 Apr. 1862, Lyman Trumbull Papers, DLC.
88. London Times, n.d., copied in the New York Times, 22 May 1862.
89. Nevins and Thomas, eds., Strong Diary, 3:217 (entry for 16 Apr. 1862).
90. Washington correspondence, 17 Apr., New York Evening Express, 18 Apr. 1862.
91. Chicago Times, 8 Apr. 1862.
92. Chicago Times, n.d., quoted in the Baltimore Republican, 21 May 1862.
93. George W. Smalley to Sydney Howard Gay, Strasburg [Virginia], 21 June 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
94. Horatio King to James Buchanan, Washington, 27 Apr. 1862, draft, King Papers, DLC.
95. Peter Sturtevant to Lincoln, New York, 16 May 1862, AL MSS DLC.
96. Reverdy Johnson to Lincoln, New York, 16 May 1862, AL MSS DLC.
97. Henry Winter Davis to Samuel Francis Du Pont, [Baltimore], [no day indicated] July 1862, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
98. Washington correspondence, 9 June, National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 14 June 1862.
99. Salmon P. Chase to Lincoln, Washington, 16 May 1862, AL MSS DLC.
100. Washington correspondence, 16, 18 May, New York Herald, 17, 19 May 1862; Lincoln to Chase, Washington, [17 May 1862], CWL, 5:219.
101. Washington correspondence, 16 May, Cincinnati Commercial, 17 May 1862; Washington correspondence, 17 May, New York Times, 18 May 1862.
102. Edward Atkinson to “Dear Ned,” Boston, 10 June 1862, Atkinson Papers, MHi.
103. George W. Smalley to Sydney Howard Gay, Strasburg [Virginia], 21 June 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
104. Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, [Washington, 20 May 1862], Gay Papers, Columbia University.
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105. Proclamation of 19 May 1862, CWL, 5:222–223.
106. Israel Washburn to Hannibal Hamlin, Augusta, 23 May 1862, Israel Washburn Papers, DLC.
107. George Gorden Meade to his wife, camp opposite Fredericksburg, 23 May 1862, in George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (2 vols.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913), 1:267.
108. J. Dille to John Sherman, Newark, Ohio, 24 May 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
109. Henry Winter Davis to Sophie Du Pont, Louviers [near Wilmington], 2 Sept. 1862, and [Baltimore], 20 May 1862, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
110. Providence Journal, 21 May 1862; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 7 June 1862.
111. Alexander T. Stewart to Lincoln, New York, 21 May 1862, AL MSS DLC.
112. New York Herald, 20, 21 May 1862.
113. Medill to Chase, Chicago, 30 May 1862, Niven, ed., Chase Papers, 3:207.
114. Chase to Greeley, Washington, 21 May 1862, ibid. 3:203.
115. Hans L. Trefousse, The Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s Vanguard for Racial Justice (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969) 218; Adam Gurowski, Diary (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1863), 210 (entry for May 1862).
116. Lydia Maria Child to Jessie Fremont, n.d., The Liberator (Boston), 11 Oct. 1862.
117. Garrison to Charles B. Sedgwick, Boston, 20 May 1862, Walter M. Merrill, ed., The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison (6 vols.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971–1981), 5:93.
118. Samuel J. May, Jr., to Richard Webb, Boston, 27 May 1862, May Papers, Boston Public Library; George B. Cheever in the New York Herald, 22 May 1862.
119. Victor B. Howard, Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860–1870 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986), 28.
120. Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 3125 (5 July 1862).
121. Thaddeus Stevens to Dr. Joseph Gibbons, n.p., 17 Apr. 1862, photocopy, Schoff Collection, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
122. Philip A. Bell in the Pacific Appeal, 14 June 1862, in C. Peter Ripley, ed., The Black Abolitionist Papers (5 vols.; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985–1992), 5:143–145.
123. Andrew to Stanton, Boston, 19 May 1862, Henry Greenleaf Pearson, The Life of John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, 1861–1865 (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 2:12–13.
124. Pierce to Chase, Port Royal, SC, 13 May 1862, Niven, ed., Chase Papers, 3:199.
125. New York Tribune, 20 May 1862.
126. New York Independent, 22 May 1862.
127. Samuel J. May, Jr., to Richard Webb, Boston, 27 May 1862, May Papers, Boston Public Library.
128. National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 24 May 1862.
129. Washington correspondence, 26 May, National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 31 May 1862.
130. Schurz to Lincoln, Philadelphia, 19 May 1862, AL MSS DLC.
131. George W. Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, North Shore, New York, 6 Mar. 1862, Curtis Papers, Harvard University.
132. Washington correspondence, 14 Apr., New York Tribune, 15 Apr. 1862.
133. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 29 Apr., Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 1 May 1862.
134. Pease and Randall, eds., Browning Diary, 1:555 (entry for 1 July 1862).
135. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vols.; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901) [hereafter OR], III, 2:200; New York Herald, 11 July 1862.
136. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 24 June, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 27 June 1862.
137. Ethan Allen, “Lincoln and the Slave Trader Gordon,” in William Hayes Ward, ed., Abraham Lincoln, Tributes of His Associates: Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen, and Citizens (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895), 168.
138. Hamilton R. Gamble to Lincoln, St. Louis, 2 May 1863, AL MSS DLC.
139. Lincoln told this to Dr. Stone, who told it to Gordon’s father, who in turn told it to the author of a letter dated Wednesday (probably written in January or February 1862 but misfiled August 1851) signed “H.” and addressed to “Dear Sir” (probably John W. Garrett), Garrett Family Papers, DLC.
140. Denver Tribune, 18 May 1879.
141. New York World, 6 Feb. 1862.
142. Sumner to Orestes Brownson, Washington, 2 Feb. 1862, Beverly Wilson Palmer, ed., The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner (2 vols.; Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990), 2:100.
143. New York World, 29 January 1862.
144. Sarah Forbes Hughes, ed., Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 1:285.
145. Robert Murray, “The Slaver Erie, or the Career of Gordon, the Slaver Captain,” typescript of an 1866 unpublished MS, in the possession of Ron Soodalter, 43, 46 (courtesy of Ron Soodalter); New York Tribune, 6 Feb. 1862; New York World, 29 Jan. 1862.
146. Howard K. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866 (Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1930, vol. IV; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933), 233 (entry for 18 Feb. 1862).
147. CWL, 5:128.
148. Nevins and Thomas, eds., Strong Diary, 3:209 (entry for 22 Feb. 1862).
149. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 15 Mar. 1862.
150. Undated letter by “Pynchon,” a resident of Hampden County, Massachusetts, to the editor, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 8 July 1862.
151. London Daily News, 8 Mar. 1862, in Ron Soodalter, Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader (New York: Atria, 2006), 226–227.
152. Erastus Wright to E. B. Washburne, Springfield, 11 Apr. 1864, Washburne Papers, DLC.
153. John B. Alley in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York: North American Review, 1888), 583.
154. J. P. Thompson, “A Talk with President Lincoln,” The Congregationalist and Boston Recorder, 30 Mar. 1866, 50.
155. Sumner to an unidentified personal friend, Washington, 5 June 1862, The Liberator (Boston), 20 June 1862.
156. Moncure D. Conway to his wife Ellen, n.p., 17 Mar. [1862], Conway Papers, Columbia University.
157. Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (4 vols.; New York: Lincoln History Society, 1902), 3:73.
158. Child to Sumner, Wayland, Massachusetts, 22 June 1862, Child Letters, ed. Meltzer and Holland, 412.
159. Principia, 10 April 1862, in M. Leon Perkal, “William Goodell: A Life of Reform” (Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1972), 304.
160. Christian Recorder, 12 Sept. 1863.
161. Stearns to Sumner, Boston, 10 Feb. 1862, Sumner Papers, Harvard University.
162. CWL, 5:317–319.
163. Frederick Pike to J. S. Pike, Washington, 13 July 1862, Pike Papers, University of Maine.
164. Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 14 July 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University; Washington correspondence, 15 July, New York Evening Post, 16 July 1862; Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 15 July, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 19 July 1862.
165. Pease and Randall, eds., Browning Diary, 1:559–560 (entry for 15 July 1862).
166. Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1885), 251.
167. Frank E. Foster to John Sherman, Columbus, 10 May 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
168. Henry Winter Davis to Samuel Francis Du Pont, [Baltimore], [no day indicated] July 1862, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
169. Trumbull to his wife, Washington, 12 July 1862, Trumbull Family Papers, IHi.
170. Henry Winter Davis to Samuel Francis Du Pont, [Baltimore], [no day indicated] July 1862, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
171. Pease and Randall, eds., Browning Diary,
1:558 (entry for 14 July 1862).
172. Lincoln to Solomon Foot, Washington, 15 July 1862, CWL, 5:326.
173. Ibid., 5:328–331.
174. Washington correspondence by Agate [Whitelaw Reid], 16 July, Cincinnati Gazette, 19 July 1862.
175. Trumbull to his wife, Washington, 16 July 1862, Trumbull Family Papers, IHi.
176. Fessenden to Hamilton Fish, Washington, 15 July 1862, Fish Papers, DLC.
177. George W. Julian in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 58.
178. Smith to George Thompson, 25 Jan. 1862, printed letter, in Ralph Volney Harlow, Gerrit Smith, Philanthropist and Reformer (New York: H. Holt, 1939), 431–432.
179. W. M. Dickson to Friedrich Hassaurek, Cincinnati, 9 June 1862, Hassaurek Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
180. Duke Frederick, “The Second Confiscation Act: A Chapter in Civil War Politics” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1966), 211–214.
181. Julian in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 238.
182. Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 17 July 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
183. Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 3382 (16 July 1862).
184. Washington correspondence, 17 July, New York Herald, 18 July 1862.
185. Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 17 July 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University; Washington correspondence by Hill, 17 July, New York Tribune, 18 July 1862.
186. George W. Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1884), 220.
187. Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 18 July 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
188. Washington correspondence, 18 July, New York Evening Post, 19 July 1862.
189. New York Evening Post, 19 July 1862.
190. CWL, 5:341.
191. John Sherman, John Sherman’s Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet: An Autobiography (2 vols.; Chicago: Werner, 1895), 1:316
192. Beale, ed., Welles Diary, 1:70–71.
193. Adams’s speech, 14 Apr. 1842, John T. Morse, John Quincy Adams (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887), 264–265.
194. William Whiting, The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery (Boston: Shorey, 1862), 58.
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