Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [635]
Chief Justice Chase…foreign ministries: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 185–86; Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, p. 21.
McAllister…“Southern Confederacy”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 186.
brought forth applause…“without a murmur”: Alexander Coffroth, quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. IV (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939), p. 10.
“Hundreds of tally”…votes short: Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, pp. 23–24.
Colfax stood…“Resolution has passed”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 186–87.
five Democrats…would have lost: Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 132.
“For a moment…ever heard before”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 187.
“Before the members…had passed”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 365.
Ashley brought…“great honor”: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 190.
“The passage…emancipation proclamation”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 365–66.
“The occasion was…They will do it”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” February 1, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 254.
legislatures in twenty…had spoken: “Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.
“And to whom…to Abraham Lincoln!”: William Lloyd Garrison, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X, p. 79n.
remained unconvinced…a pass: AL, pass for FPB, December 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
proceeding on…“without reserve”: FPB to Jefferson Davis, December 30, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
arrived in Richmond…“around him”: NR, January 19, 1865.
“Oh you Rascal…to see you”: EBL to SPL, January 16, 1865, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 463.
“might be the dreams…in his prayers”: FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.
his proposal…allied against the French: FPB, address made to Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.
Davis agreed…“a Foreign Power”: FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.
Davis agreed to send…“two Countries”: Jefferson Davis to FPB, January 12, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln consulted…immediately agreed: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 257.
“You may say…one common country”: AL to FPB, January 18, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 220–21.
Davis called a cabinet…Campbell: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 590.
flag of truce…the commissioners: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 1865.
“By common consent…a gala day”: NYH, February 4, 1865.
“harbingers of peace…common sentiment”: NR, February 3, 1865.
“It was night…throughout the country”: Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War, pp. 597–98.
Seward headed south…“sincere liberality”: AL to WHS, January 31, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 250.
“convinced”…meet with them personally: USG to EMS, February 1, 1865, Lincoln Papers.
“Induced by a despatch of Gen. Grant”: AL to WHS, February 2, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 256.
“Say to the gentlemen…can get there”: AL to USG, February 2, 1865, in ibid.
a single valet…Annapolis: NYH, February 3, 1865.
“supposed to be”…little past ten: NYH, February 5, 1865.
Lincoln joined Seward…River Queen: NYT, February 6, 1865.
saloon of…“streamers and flags”: Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War, p. 599; NYT, February 6, 1865 (quote).
Stephens opened…“Sections of the country?”: Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War, p. 599.
“was altogether…was written or read”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 260.
“steward, who came”…agreement on any issue: Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War, pp. 619, 600–01, 612, 613, 609, 617.
radicals had worked…excoriated him: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 202.
“the leading members…will dishonor us”: NYT, February 3, 1865.
Both branches…on the proceedings: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 203–04.
Stanton worried…“serve their purpose”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 338.
Lincoln’s report…“given to Seward”: Brooks,