Lincoln (161 page)

479
“forever of slavery”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:410.

479
of “colored loyalists”:
Chase to Thomas J. Durant, Nov. 19, 1863, Chase MSS; Chase to AL, Apr. 12, 1865, Lincoln MSS, LC.

480
“head of the Treasury Department”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 101.

480
“spot he can find”:
Ibid., p. 110.

480
“upon the Government”:
Leon Burr Richardson,
William E. Chandler: Republican
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940), pp. 43–44; Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin,
Lincoln and the Patronage
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1943), p. 235.

480
“kept my promise”:
Erwin S. Bradley,
Simon Cameron: Lincoln’s Secretary of War
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), pp. 237–238; Hay,
Diary,
pp. 152–153.

481
“not a party”:
Philadelphia Union League,
Abraham Lincoln,
[1864], pamphlet, Widener Library, Harvard University.

481
“his pre-eminent fitness”:
For this statement, and for other resolutions by Union Leagues, I am indebted to a careful memorandum prepared by Gerald Prokopowicz.

481
urging Lincoln’s reelection:
New England Loyal Publication Society, Broadside No. 158.

481
“spirit of the age”:
For the text of this pamphlet and astute commentary on the Chase campaign, see Charles R. Wilson, “The Original Chase Organization Meeting and
The Next Presidential Election,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review
23 (June 1936): 61–79.

481
“and abusive pamphlet”:
Lamon to AL, Feb. 6,1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

482
“had better quit”:
Wilson, “Original Chase Organization Meeting,” pp. 64–65.

482
“other available candidate”:
S. C. Pomeroy, printed circular letter, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

482
“your entire confidence”: CW,
7:200–201.

482
the “treasury rats”:
John G. Nicolay to John Hay, Feb. 17, 1864, Nicolay MSS, LC.

482
“inquire for more”: CW,
7:212–213.

482
“wish to hear”:
Helen Nicolay,
Lincoln’s Secretary,
pp. 188–189.

483
Indiana Republican convention:
John D. Defrees to WHH, Aug. 21, 1866, HWC.

483
“every honorable mind”: Congressional Globe,
38 Cong., 1 sess., Appendix, p. 51.

483
“be safely landed”: New York Herald,
Mar. 12, 1864.

483
“present Chase again”:
Willard L. King,
Lincoln’s Manager: David Davis
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960), pp. 215–216.

484
“citizens of New York”: New York World,
Dec. 11, 1863.

484
Kentucky, and Wisconsin:
Hesseltine,
Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction,
p. 99.

484
“fix the rest”: CW,
7:155.

484
“some worthy gentlemen
”:
CW,
7:126.

485
“right side up”: CW,
5:345.

485
“the people possible”: CW
, 5:505, 462.

485
“disgusting and outrageous”: CW,
5:504.

485
“of the matter”: CW,
6:364–365.

486
“you are master”: CW,
7:89–90.

486
“the eastern States”:
Banks to AL, Dec. 6, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

486
“inoperative and void”: Banks to AL, Dec. 30, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

486
“or against it”:
Ibid.

487
“has ever seen”:
Banks to AL, Feb. 25, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

487
“only [as] a suggestion “: CW,
7:243.

487
“a military officer”:
Belz,
Reconstructing the Union,
p. 192.

488
“cannot stand Radicalism”: Cuthbert Bullitt to O. H. Browning, Feb. 25, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

488
“Secretary of the Treasury”:
Belz,
Reconstructing the Union,
pp. 195–196, 199.

489
his “leg cases”:
Richard N. Current,
The Lincoln Nobody Knows
(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), pp. 165–166.

489
throughout the country:
Chase,
Diary,
pp. 192–196.

489
“on the public works”: CW,
6:357.

489
“or hang them”:
Mary Mann to E. A. Hitchcock, Nov. 18, 1863, Hitchcock MSS, LC.

489
“act for revenge”:
J. G. Randall,
Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln
(rev. ed.; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1951), pp. xvi-xvii.

489
raid against Richmond:
James Rodney Wood, Civil War Memoir, Maud Wood Park MSS, LC; Joseph George, Jr., “‘Black Flag Warfare’: Lincoln and the Raids Against Richmond and Jefferson Davis,”
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
115 (July 1991): 292–318; William A. Tidwell et al.,
Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988), pp. 242–247. For the orders allegedly found on Dahlgren’s body, see Frank Moore,
The Rebellion Record
(New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1865), 8:387–388.

490
Army of the Potomac:
Allan Nevins, ed.,
A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861–1865
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962), p. 308.

490
“if he fails”: CW,
6:518.

490
“are pressing him”: CW,
6:354.

490
“it’s objective point”: CW
, 6:467.

490
“would catch him?”:
John G. Nicolay, Diary, Dec. 7, 1863, Nicolay MSS, LC.

491
“gnawing at Grant”:
Ida M. Tarbell,
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
(New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 2:187–189. For a thorough evaluation of Grant’s position on the nomination, see John Y. Simon, ed.,
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 9:541–544.

491
of George Washington:
Winfield Scott had held the rank of brevet lieutenant general.

491
return to the President:
Bruce Catton,
Grant Takes Command
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1969), pp. 124–126; Nicolay,
Lincoln’s Secretary,
pp. 194–196;
New York Herald,
Mar. 12, 1864.

491
“will sustain you”: CW,
7:234.

492
“for the succession”:
Dennison to AL, Mar. 12, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

William F. Zornow,
Lincoln and the Party Divided
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), has long been the standard account of the political campaign of 1864. David E. Long,
The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-Election and the End of Slavery
(Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1994), appeared too late for me to consult it in writing this chapter. T. Harry Williams,
Lincoln and His Generals
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), is excellent on Lincoln’s relations with Grant.
Why the South Lost the Civil War,
by Richard E. Beringer et al. (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1986), offers a fresh view of Grant’s strategy. On Lincoln’s growing conflict with Congress over reconstruction, Herman Belz,
Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Practice During the Civil War
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1969), is indispensable. I have greatly profited by the opportunity to read draft chapters of Michael Vorenberg’s dissertation on “The Thirteenth Amendment and the Politics of Emancipation,” which is being prepared at Harvard University.

493
“the re-election of Mr. Lincoln”:
Zornow, p. 55.

493
“foregone conclusion”:
James G. Blaine to Hannibal Hamlin, Mar. 8, 1864, Hamlin MSS, microfilm, Columbia University.

493
“people overwhelmingly”:
Thompson Campbell to E. B. Washburne, Mar. 8, 1864, Washburne MSS, LC.

494
“on the surface”:
Lyman Trumbull to H. G. McPike, Feb. 6,1864, Trumbull MSS, LC.

494
“goes for Lincoln”:
A. Denny to John Sherman, Mar. 16, 1864, Sherman MSS, LC; E. F. Drake to John Sherman, Mar. 17, 1864, Sherman MSS, LC.

494
“to change them”:
“National Convention—Postponement Requested,” broadside, Mar. 25,1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

494
“traits of character
”: Joseph Medill to E. B. Washburne, Apr. 12,1864, Washburne MSS, LC.

494
“for the office”:
E. D. Webster to W. H. Seward, Mar. 14, 1864, Seward MSS, UR.

494
“Mr. C’s claim”:
R. M. W. Taylor to John Sherman, Mar. 18,1864, Sherman MSS, LC.

494
“to the Other”:
J. V. Denny to John Sherman, Mar. 20, 1864, Sherman MSS, LC.

494
meeting in Baltimore:
The best biography, Allan Nevins,
Frémont: Pathmarker of the West
(New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1955), stresses that Frémont himself was “sincerely indifferent to any movement” to nominate him (p. 568). See also Andrew Rolle’s interesting psychological portrait,
John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).

495
“months after his inauguration”:
Louis T. Merrill, “General Benjamin F. Butler in the Presidential Campaign of 1864,”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
33 (Mar. 1947): 550. It cannot be shown that Lincoln authorized Cameron to approach Butler, but there is ample evidence that Cameron did so and that he reported Butler’s response to the President.