Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [636]
“as the reading…President Lincoln”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 207, 208.
“Indeed…than Abraham Lincoln”: Harper’s Weekly, February 25, 1865.
employed the failed…slavery intact: Richmond Dispatch, February 7, 1865, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X, p. 130.
“I can have…element of my nature!”: Jefferson Davis, quoted in NR, February 13, 1865.
drafted a proposal…“executive control”: AL, “To the Senate and House of Representatives,” February 5, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 260–61.
unanimous disapproval…“adverse feeling”: Entry for February 6, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 237.
Usher believed…“assault on the President”: J. P. Usher, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 66.
Stanton had long maintained…“compensation for slaves”: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 258.
Fessenden declared…“come from us”: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Francis Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907), p. 8.
sum he proposed…“approved the measure”: J. P. Usher, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 66.
Sherman had headed north…on February 17: Entry for February 17, 1865, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 639–40.
Stanton ordered…“parts of the city”: NR, February 22, 1865.
“cheerful…brightest day in four years”: Entry for February 22, 1865, Welles Diary, Vol. II, p. 245.
“more depressed”…in the four years: Entry for February 23, 1865, in The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. II, 1865–1881, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall; Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Vol. XXII (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1933), p. 8.
low spirits…“brigand, and pirate”: Jonathan Truman Dorris, Pardon and Amnesty Under Lincoln and Johnson: The Restoration of the Confederates to Their Rights and Privileges, 1861–1898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), pp. 76–78 (quote p. 77).
“I had to stand…out of my mind yet”: Henry P. H. Bromwell, quoted in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), p. 41.
he would “not receive…seven o’clock p.m.”: NR, March 2, 1865.
“The hopeful condition”…the capital: NR, March 1, 1865.
so overcrowded…“found for them”: NR, March 3, 1865.
Douglass decided…“of other citizens”: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 803.
visited Chase’s…“a strange thing”: Ibid., pp. 799–800.
steady rain…foreign ministries: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 210–11; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 418, 420 (quote).
“One ambassador…feet on the floor”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 421.
Johnson rose…“extraordinarily red”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 211.
“in a state of manifest…a petrified man”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 422, 423.
“All this is…drunk or crazy”: Entry for March 4, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 252.
Dennison…“serene as summer”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 423–24.
“emotion on…revisiting the Senate”: Entry for March 4, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 252.
Lincoln listened…harangue to end: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 423.
his eyes shut: Marquis de Chambrun [Charles Adolphe Pineton], “Personal Recollections of Mr. Lincoln,” Scribner’s 13 (January 1893), p. 26.
“You need not…a drunkard”: AL, as quoted by Hugh McCullough in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, p. 320.
audience proceeded…“glory and light”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 424, 425 (quote).
an auspicious omen…Freedom: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 213, 20–21.
“Both read the same…this terrible war”: AL, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 333. For a thorough discussion of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, see Ronald C. White, Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002).
“the eloquence of the prophets”: Chambrun, “Personal Recollections