Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [588]
“never doubted…to abolish slavery”: AL, “Message to Congress,” April 16, 1862, in ibid., p. 192.
“I trust I am not…seem like a dream”: Frederick Douglass to CS, April 8, 1862, reel 25, Sumner Papers.
As slaves in the District…“when they wished”: Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 354.
“all but one…quarters”: EBL to SPL, April 19, 1862, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 130.
Henry…the rest of his life: Henry, quoted in Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 354.
Nanny…“children are free”: EBL to SPL, April 19, 1862, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 130.
a new confiscation bill: “An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes,” July 17, 1862, in Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America, Vol. 12 (Boston, 1863), pp. 589–92, available through “Chronology of Emancipation During the Civil War,” Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, College Park, www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/conact2.htm (accessed April 2004).
“It was…a dead letter from the start”: “Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862,” in Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982), p. 68.
a “disturbing influence…to break anew”: CS, quoted in James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield, Vol. I (Norwich, Conn.: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1884), p. 374.
“our friends…take it at its flood”: Entry for July 14, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 558.
“will be an end…errors of policy”: Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke, July 16, 1862, in Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1907), p. 199.
“looked weary…in his voice”: Entry for July 15, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 560.
the president traveled…final days of the term: JGN to TB, July 18, 1862, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
an extraordinarily productive session: See Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), pp. 101–36, 147–48, 179–97, 244–52.
“he had lately begun…d’etat for our Congress”: Entry for July 21, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 348.
“I ask Congress…lost one advocate”: WHS to FAS, July 12, 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 115–16.
The debates had grown…“part in them”: Field, Memories of Many Men, pp. 264–65.
“a moral…political wrong”: AL, “Sixth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Quincy, Illinois,” October 13, 1858, in CW, III, p. 254.
uses to which slaves were put by the Confederacy: Welles, “History of Emancipation,” Galaxy (1872), pp. 843, 844; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 355.
emancipation could be considered a military necessity: Welles, “History of Emancipation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 850.
the funeral of Stanton’s infant son: Star, July 11, 1862.
“emancipating the slaves…justifiable”: Entry for c. July 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 70–71.
when messengers…by the diplomats in attendance: Entry for July 21, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 348.
all members save the postmaster: Welles, “History of Emancipation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 844.
books in the library: MTL to Benjamin B. French, July 26, [1862], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 129–30; Seale, The President’s House, Vol. I, pp. 291–92, 380.
“profoundly concerned…and slavery”: Entry for July 21, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 348.
Lincoln read several orders…“decide the question”: Entry for July 21, 1862, ibid., pp. 348–49.
another cabinet session; Carpenter painting: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 11; entry for July 22, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 351.
Lincoln took the floor…“on the slavery question”: Welles, “History of Emancipation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 844.
“had resolved upon…their advice”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 21.
His draft proclamation…“and forever”: AL, “Emancipation Proclamation