Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (54 page)

215
    
“
dictatorship
”
To Joseph Hooker, op. cit.

216
    
“
he fights
”
Donald, 349.

216
    
“
whole game
”
To Orville H. Browning, 9/22/61, SWII:269.

216
    
“
poor white trash
”
Donald, 317.

216
    
“
hanged for all this
”
Charles Francis Adams Jr., 95.

217
    
bait in a trap?
See Donald, 422–423.

217
    
“
to suffer
”
To the Senate and House of Representatives, 5/26/62, CWV:243.

218
    
power play
See Goodwin, 486–495.

219
    
“
circus
”
Foner, 272.

249
    
“
restricted
”
To Alexander H. Stephens, 12/22/60, SWII:194.

220
    
“
strapping negro
”
Foner, 186.

220
    
“
Human Authority
”
Stay of Execution for Nathaniel Gordon, 2/4/62, SWII:306.

221
    
“
twenty five
”
Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, DC, 8/14/62, SWII:353–357.

222
    
“
military proclamation
”
To Orville H. Browning, 9/22/61, SWII:268.

222
    
“
Butler’s fugitive slave law
”
Foner, 171.

223
    
calculated . . . estimated
Brookhiser (
Madison
), 232; Ellis, 267–268.

223
    
“
abrasion
”
Appeal to the Border-States Representatives for Compensated Emancipation, 7/12/62, SWII:341.

224
    
Delaware
Drafts of Bill for Compensated Emancipation in Delaware, c. late 11/61, SWII:276–278.

224
    
another plan
Donald, 365.

225
    
“
also do that
”
To Horace Greeley, 8/22/62, and footnote, CWV:388–389.

225
    
“
Judassis hed
”
Ward, 35.

225
    
“
to my Maker
”
Goodwin, 481–482.

226
    
he was crazy
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, 2/27/60, SWII:125.

226
    
“
actual armed rebellion
”
Final Emancipation Proclamation, SWII:424–425.

226
    
Patrick Henry . . . James Madison
Brookhiser (
Madison
), 231.

227
    
John Quincy Adams
Brookhiser (
Dynasty
), 141.

227
    
Sumner had asked
Charles Francis Adams Jr., 55–56.

228
    
“
earnest emphasis
”
HI, 197.

Chapter Thirteen

230
    
“
‘pictures of silver’
”
The image in the Hebrew original is of jewelry;
pictures
could be translated as
carvings
. See Alter, 303.

230
    
“
bruised or broken
”
To Alexander H. Stephens, 12/22/60, footnote, CWIV:161; Fragment on the Constitution and the Union, c. 1/61, CWIV:169.

231
    
“
freedom of mankind
”
To John M. Clay, 8/9/62, SWII:35.

233
    
“
curse . . . defiance
”
Madison (
Debates
), 8/8/87, 392.

234
    
“
something
else
”
Brookhiser (
Gentleman
), 61–62.

235
    
Madison . . . Hamilton
Madison (
Debates
), 6/6/87, 75; 6/18/87, 134; 6/26/87, 190.

235
    
None of the delegates
Patrick Henry did question the ramifications of “We the People” at the Virginia Ratifying Convention. James Madison, as an old man, warned against expending “so much constructive ingenuity” on the Preamble. See Brookhiser (
Gentleman
), 91–92.

237
    
“
deliberate decisions
”
Special Message to Congress, 7/4/61, SWII:261.

237
    
“
common charge?
”
Annual Message to Congress, 12/1/62, SWII:408.

238
    
“
in the world
”
Appeal to the Border-State Representatives for Compensated Emancipation, 7/12/62, SWII:342.

238
    
“
at stake
”
Reply to Chicago Emancipation Memorial, 9/13/62, SWII:365.

239
    
“
the occasion
”
Response to Serenade, 7/7/63, SWII:475–476.

239
    
“
top of my head
”
Chesnut, 219.

239
    
The bodies
For the setting at Gettysburg, see Wills, 19–40.

240
    
Everett spoke
Wills reprints his speech, 213–247.

240
    
In a letter
To Edward Everett, 11/20/63, SWII:537.

241
    
Wills noted
Wills, 174.

243
    
portentous phrase
Lowry, 9–15, and Wills, 145–146, give critical accounts of contemporary opportunists and fearmongers, respectively.

244
    
“
old American Constitution
”
Holzer (
Anthology
), 49.

245
    
the Preamble
Lincoln’s tripartite invocation of the people echoed nineteenth-century orators, such as Theodore Parker and Daniel Webster (see Wills, 129, 281), but they were intermediate stops on the way back to the Preamble.

245
    
“
long-continued applause
”
Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 11/19/63, SWII:536; AP account, SWII:748–749.

245
    
“
no good to them
”
Special Message to Congress, op. cit., SWII:260.

Chapter Fourteen

247
    
“
terrible war
”
To Eliza P. Gurney, 9/4/64, SWII:627; Second Inaugural Address, 3/4/65, SWII:687.

248
    
“
and act
”
Grant, 382.

249
    
“
ever made
”
Grant, 477.

249
    
“
as possible
”
To Ulysses S. Grant, 8/17/64, SWII:620.

249
    
“
public opinion
”
Foner, 230.

249
    
“
of the United States
”
Final Emancipation Proclamation, SWII:425.

249
    
“
no matter
”
To James C. Conkling, 8/26/63, SWII:498.

250
    
grand painting
See Fischer, 1–4, 21–22, 25, 488.

253
    
“
hair of a nigger
”
Charles Francis Adams Jr., 94–95.

253
    
“
impossibility
”
Donald, 528.

253
    
scenarios
See Holzer (
Objects
), for two of Lincoln’s preelection vote counts.

254
    
“
but the negro
”
Donald, 537.

255
    
Chase yearned
Chase was unemployed at the time, having submitted his resignation once too often. Lincoln accepted it June 30, 1864 (see SWII:603).

255
    
“
‘material aid’
”
Thomas, 452.

256
    
“
privileges and positions
”
Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment, Washington, DC, SWII:626.

257
    
“
‘Here we are again’
”
William Herndon to Ward Lamon, 3/3/70, Ward Hill Lamon Papers, LN2327, Huntington Library.

257
    
“
from a desert,” “like a child
”
Brooks, 215, 278.

257
    
“
expect it
”
To Fanny McCullough, 12/23/62, SWII:420.

258
    
Lydia Bixby
To Mrs. Lydia Bixby, 11/21/64, SWII:644, 755; CWVIII:117.

259
    
“
shot off
”
Brooks, 238.

260
    
Lincoln answered
HI, 157.

261
    
“
this terrible war
”
To Eliza P. Gurney, op. cit., SWII:627.

261
    
“
bleed to death
”
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act of Peoria, Illinois, 10/16/54, SWI:338.

261
    
a canto
Don Juan
, canto VIII, stanza 20.

262
    
Charles Sumner proposed
The French text (Article 6) reads:
Tous les citoyens étant égaux à ses yeux
. . . (All citizens being equal in its [the law’s] eyes . . .). See Foner, 291–292.

264
    
“
to be in it
”
To James M. Ashley, 1/31/65, CWVIII:248.

264
    
Davis had embargoed
Howe, 257.

265
    
“
two countries,” “one common country
”
Jeffn. Davis to F. P. Blair, 1/12/65, A. Lincoln to F. P. Blair, 1/18/65, SWII:674–675.

265
    
without result
Donald, 555–560.

265
    
“
slave trade
”
Donald, 560.

Chapter Fifteen

269
    
Paine . . . mocked
P, 683, 722, 676.

269
    
favorite phrases
Brooks, 216.

270
    
“
a good book
”
Bayne, 32–33, 184.

271
    
“
not end yet
”
Meditation on the Divine Will, c. early 9/62, SWII:359.

271
    
“
seen of men
”
CWV:404.

272
    
“
other minds
”
Reply to Chicago Emancipation Memorial, 9/13/62, SWII: 361, 363.

273
    
“
their refuge
”
Gurney, 307–312.

273
    
“
vague tradition
”
To Solomon Lincoln, 3/6/48, SWI:177. John Lincoln married a Quaker.

273
    
a good word for
See P, 821–822.

274
    
“
governs it
”
Reply to Eliza P. Gurney, 10/26/62, CWV:478.

275
    
“
assured friend
”
Gurney, 313–316.

275
    
“
in another
”
HI, 106–107.

276
    
“
in Heaven
”
To Eliza P. Gurney, 9/4/64, SWII:627.

276
    
“
goodness of God
”
To Albert G. Hodges, 4/4/64, SWII:586.

277
    
“
as long as I live
”
Chesnut, 350.

278
    
the address
Second Inaugural Address, 3/4/65, SWII:686–687.

282
    
“
any other way
”
P, 702.

Chapter Sixteen

286
    
“
liberally all around
”
Donald, 574.

286
    
“
to God only
”
Donald, 576.

286
    
“
touch him further
”
Macbeth
, act III, scene ii. See Chambrun, 35, who quotes no specific lines, but says that Lincoln read the scene.

287
    
“
upon his army
”
Grant, 604.

288
    
“
intelligent black man
”
To Edwin M. Stanton, 2/8/65, CWVIII:273–274. Joseph Louis Cook, who had a black father, was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army in 1779, but he self-identified as an American Indian.

289
    
“
their situation
”
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, 10/16/54, SWII:315.