Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [596]
“If my name…soul is in it”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 269.
“stiff and numb”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 151.
“If my hand trembles…‘He hesitated’”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 269.
“slowly and carefully”…sent out to the press: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 151.
“Has Lincoln played false to humanity?”: Entry for January 1, 1863, in Adam Gurowski, Diary from November 18, 1862 to October 18, 1863. Vol. II. Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works #229 (New York, 1864; New York: Burt Franklin, 1968), p. 61.
At Tremont Temple…Anna Dickinson: Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (1893 edn.), reprinted in Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies. Library of America Series (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1994) p. 790 (quote); Boston Journal, January 2, 1863; Boston Transcript, January 2, 1863.
At the nearby Music Hall…Oliver Wendell Holmes: Boston Journal, January 2, 1863; Boston Post, January 2, 1863; Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 143.
“Every moment…one other chance”: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 791.
“had absolutely no foundation…to the quick”: Helm, The True Story of Mary, pp. 208–09.
Mary had rushed…the joyous occasion: MTL to CS, December 30, 1862, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 144.
“was becoming agony…joy and gladness”: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 791.
“It was a sublime…with us, here”: Eliza S. Quincy to MTL, January 2, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
a crowd of serenaders…in securing their freedom: Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, p. 186; NYT, January 3, 1863 (quote).
“Whatever partial…goes backward”: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, January 2, 1863.
“Strange phenomenon…in all future ages”: James A. Garfield to Burke Hinsdale, January 6, 1863, quoted in Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield. Vol. I: 1831–1877 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925), p. 266.
“Fellow-citizens…the latest generation”: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 1, 1862, in CW, V, p. 537.
“had done nothing…will be realized”: AL, paraphrased in Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in HI, p. 197.
“discord in the North…spirit of the nation”: Louisville Journal, quoted in Boston Post, January 2, 1863.
“union and harmony…destruction”: WHS to FS, September 1862, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 135.
“It is my conviction…sustained it”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 77.
“slavery and quiet… by tremendous majorities”: Walt Whitman, “Origins of Attempted Secession,” The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman, Vol. II (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1902), p. 155.
“A man watches…strong enough to defeat the purpose”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 77.
Horatio Seymour denounced…inaugural message: Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, p. 187.
James Robinson recommended: NYT, January 10, 1863.
Democratic legislatures…“crusade against Slavery”: Oliver P. Morton to EMS, February 9, 1863, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
“under the subterfuge…oppose the War”: JGN to TB, January 11, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
The “fire in the rear”: AL, quoted in CS to Francis Lieber, January 17, 1863, quoted in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner. Vol. IV: 1860–1874 (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893), p. 114.
Army of the Potomac into winter quarters…“Valley Forge of the war”: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 586–88, 590 (quote).
Copperheads: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 493, 591, 593, 600; John C. Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency (New York: Crown Publishers, 1997), p. 91.
“fearfully changed”…a piercing shriek: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 105–06.
“Ought this war”…then let her go: Clement L. Vallandigham, “The Constitution—Peace—Reunion,” January 14, 1863, Appendix to the Congressional Globe,