Lincoln (165 page)

535
“appear tomorrow”:
Hayes,
Du Pont,
3:394.

535
“financially a failure”:
McPherson,
Political History,
pp. 426–427.

535
“support Lincoln”:
Hayes,
Du Pont,
3:394.

535
“pure, and dignified”:
David Davis to AL, Oct. 4, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

535
“dutifully and manfully”:
Salmon P. Chase to Charles F. Schmidt, Aug. 12, 1864, Chase MSS.

535
“we would wish”:
Salmon P. Chase to Richard C. Parsons, Sept. 14,1864, Chase MSS.

536
“not know him”:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 254.

536
“my active support”:
Salmon P. Chase to George S. Denison, Sept. 20, 1864, Chase MSS.

536
the next Chief Justice:
David M. Silver,
Lincoln’s Supreme Court
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956), chaps. 15–16, offers a full account of the controversies over naming Taney’s successor. See also the careful review of all the evidence in Charles Fairman,
Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864–88
(New York: The Macmillan Co., 1971), chap. 2.

536
“of my life”:
Edward Bates to AL, Oct. 13, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

536
“from your Cabinet”:
Francis P. Blair, Sr., to AL, Oct. 20, 1864, Blair MSS, LC.

536
“his other recommendations”:
Nicolay and Hay, 9:391–392.

536
“expect great things”:
Salmon P. Chase to Charles Sumner, Oct. 19, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

537
“of the nation”: New York Herald,
Aug. 23, 1864.

537
“judgment of history?”:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 253.

537
“the
people’s
business”:
Emanuel Hertz,
Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait
(New York: Horace Liveright, 1931), 2:941.

537
“but the negro”:
Frank Freidel, ed.,
Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861–1865
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), 2:981, 988.

537
“on the patent”: CW,
7:508.

537
“incompetency, and corruption”:
James Ford Rhodes,
History of the United States from the
Compromise of 1850
(New York: Macmillan Co., 1907), 4:531.

537
in St. Louis:
Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 180.

538
“know was right”:
Ward Hill Lamon,
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847–1865,
ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (Washington, D.C.: 1911), pp. 145–149. For further comment on this matter, see Randall,
Lincoln the President,
4:247–249.

538
“anything to say”: CW,
7:398.

538
“a free Government”: CW,
7:505.

538
“any thing else”:
Gil Troy,
See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate
(New York: Free Press, 1991), p. 69.

538
after the election:
For advice that Lincoln received on Pennsylvania politics, see Thomas Fitzgerald to AL, Sept. 28, 1864; Fitzgerald to John G. Nicolay, Sept. 29, 1864; William D. Kelley to AL, Sept. 30, 1864—all in Lincoln MSS, LC. Curtin’s words appear in Joseph C. McKibbin to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Oct. 1, 1864, Barlow MSS.

538
“than Mr. Conkling”: CW,
7:498.

538
“he thinks fit”: CW,
7:402, 480–481.

538
James Gordon Bennett:
In addition to the specific citations that follow, see two excellent studies: David Quentin Voigt, “‘Too Pitchy to Touch’—President Lincoln and Editor Bennett,”
ALQ
6 (Sept. 1950): 139–161, and John J. Turner, Jr., and Michael D’Innocenzo, “The President and the Press: Lincoln, James Gordon Bennett and the Election of 1864,”
LH
76 (Summer 1974): 63–69.

539
editor with flattery:
Green Clay Smith to AL, Sept. 2, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

539
“too pitchy to touch”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 215.

539
“amount to much”: CW,
7:461.

539
“mentioning your name”:
William O. Bartlett to AL, Oct. 20, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

539
“less repulsive way”:
Turner and D’Innocenzo, “The President and the Press,” p. 67.

539
“and ruined us”: CW,
8:100–101.

539
September draft call:.
Stanton did grant a four-day delay, so that some state quotas and draft districts could be rearranged. Harold M. Hyman and Benjamin P. Thomas,
Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 328.

539
“you at once”: CW,
8:11.

539
Nevada a state:
In his
Recollections of the Civil War
(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898), pp. 174–177, Charles A. Dana remembered that Lincoln had actively promoted the statehood of Nevada, primarily to secure additional votes in the next session of Congress for the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery and that he had liberally distributed patronage to persuade Democrats to vote for admission. But Earl S. Pomeroy, “Lincoln, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Admission of Nevada,”
Pacific Historical Review
12 (1943), 362–368, points out numerous errors in Dana’s account and shows (p. 367) “there is no reason to suppose that Nevada was a favorite project of Lincoln or that he viewed it with great warmth.”

540
“any presidential election”: CW,
8:72.

540
“vanity, or ambition”: CW,
7:506.

540
“to the country”:
Segal,
Conversations,
p. 338.

540
a Washington merchant:
O. H. Browning, Diary, July 3, 1873, MS, ISHL.

540
“will know all”:
Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
pp. 346–347.

540
“all future ages”: CW,
8:96.

540
“with their own”: CW,
8:52.

540
“this great nation”: CW,
7:506.

541
“fickle-minded man”:
C. Peter Ripley, ed.,
The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States,
1859–1865
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), p. 277.

541
“Despotism and Slavery”:
Ibid., p. 306. For additional statements of African-Americans’ support for Lincoln, see James M. McPherson,
The Negro’s Civil War
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), chap. 21.

541
“call you blessed”:
Benjamin Quarles,
Lincoln and the Negro
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), p. 211.

541
“advocated his cause”:
Segal,
Conversations,
pp. 345–347.

541
abolitionists had often:
These paragraphs draw heavily from James M. McPherson’s admirable study,
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964), esp. chap. 12.

542
“to the emancipated”: William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His
Children
(New York: Century Co., 1889), 4:117.

542
“us the churches”: CW,
7:350–351.

542
“and to liberty”: CW,
7:368.

542
“all on one side”:
James H. Moorhead,
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil
War
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 156–157.

542
women of letters:
For an excellent analysis of the changing views of Northern intellectuals and literary figures, see George M. Fredrickson,
The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
(New York: Harper & Row, 1965).

542
“never in history”:
Ralph L. Rusk,
The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949), p. 426.

542
“will be saved”:
Samuel Longfellow, ed.,
Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886), 3:47.

542
“in a net”:
Forrest Wilson,
Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1941), pp. 484–485.

542
“who could hesitate!”:
John B. Pickard, ed.,
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975), 3:77.

543
“and his God”:
Paul Revere Frothingham,
Edward Everett: Orator and Statesman
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925), pp. 461–463.

543
“a practical statesman”:
James Russell Lowell, “The Next General Election,”
North American
Review
99 (Oct. 1864): 570; Horace E. Scudder,
James Russell Lowell: A Biography
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901), 2:56.

543
evening of October 11:
The following paragraphs draw on Hay’s very full account in Hay,
Diary,
pp. 227–230.

543
“give up my office”: The Works of Charles Sumner
(Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883), 15:66.

543
to his column: CW,
8:46.