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Cameron read his draft: Henry Wilson, “Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly 25 (February 1870), p. 238; Bradley, Simon Cameron, p. 203.
“I sought out…Edwin Stanton”: Simon Cameron, quoted in Henry Wilson, “Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870), p. 470.
“read the report…hearty support”: Ibid.
he suggested his own provocative logic: Bradley, Simon Cameron, p. 203; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 134 n7.
“It is clearly a right…from the enemy”: “From the Report of the Secretary of War, Dec. 1, 1861,” in Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion, 1861–1865, 2nd edn. (Washington, D.C.: Philp & Solomons, 1865; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), p. 249 (quote). For the official version of the annual report of the secretary of war sent to Congress, see OR, Ser. 3, Vol. I, pp. 698–708 (esp. p. 708).
It remains unclear: See Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 134–35; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 236–37, 260.
“an abolitionist at heart”: Jeremiah S. Black, “Senator Wilson and Edwin M. Stanton,” Galaxy 9 (June 1870), p. 822.
his boyhood pledge to his father: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 25.
“my personal friend…war against Slavery”: CS to Francis Lieber, December 19, 1861, reel 64, Summer Papers.
when Stanton talked with fellow Democrats: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 135.
his approval emboldened Cameron…to the president: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 116.
“This will never do!”…copy already sent: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 136.
“must be provided for in some way”: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 3, 1861, in CW, V, p. 48.
“otherwise unconstitutional…necessity”: AL to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 281–82.
Lincoln informed Cameron…the vetoed language: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, p. 127.
he complained…“dreaded most”: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 394–95 (quote p. 395).
“have sought our ships…a livelihood”: NYT, December 4, 1861, p. 3.
Welles resolved that…into the Confederacy: Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 395.
he outlined his ideas…“new beginner to help him”: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 3, 1861, in CW, V, pp. 48, 49, 52.
“Away with…free as the white man”: Worthington G. Snethen to SPC, December 10, 1861, reel 18, Chase Papers.
“his attachment…than iron”: “The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered: An Address Delivered in Hudson, Ohio, on 12 July 1854,” The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. Vol. II: 1847–54, ed. John W. Blassingame (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 524.
“Give him wages…by hard work”: Douglass’ Monthly (January 1862), p. 579.
“One black regiment…free colored people”: Douglass’ Monthly (May 1861), p. 451.
“We are striking…the loyal North”: Frederick Douglass, “The Reasons for Our Troubles,” ed. Philip S. Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Vol. III: The Civil War, 1861–1865 (New York: International Publishers, 1952), p. 204.
“It appeals to the judgment…aspirations”: NYT Supplement, December 4, 1861.
“the moderate men…with popularity”: Ibid.
“country and the world…railing accusations”: NYTrib, December 4, 1861.
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“unusually beautiful…than January”: NYT Supplement, January 3, 1862.
“For the first time…in old times”: FAS to LW, January 1, 1862, reel 119, Seward Papers.
“All the world”…opened at noon: Entry for January 1, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 221.
The Marine Band…cabinet officials: Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 105–06; NYT Supplement, January 3, 1862.
“a compact little…head arrangement”: Entry for January 1, 1862, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
Lincoln cordially greeted every guest: Leech, Reveille in Washington, pp. 122–23.
“the bottom…out of the tub”: AL, quoted in Montgomery C. Meigs, “General M. C. Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War,” American Historical Review 26 (January 1921), p. 292.