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35. CW, 6: 248, 262–69, 303–5.
36. Mark E. Neely Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (New York, 1991), 67–71; Frederick P. Stanton, “Union Not to Be Maintained by Force,” Continental Monthly, 5 (January 1864), 75; Henry W. Bellows, Unconditional Loyalty (New York, 1863), 5; Nicholas B. Wainwright, ed., A Philadelphia Perspective: The Diary of Sidney George Fisher Covering the Years 1834–1871 (Philadelphia, 1967), 462. On wartime patriotism, the best account is Melinda Lawson, Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North (Lawrence, Kans., 2002).
37. CW, 6: 407–10, 414, 430.
38. David P. Brown to Lincoln, June 15, 1863; Hugh McCulloch to Lincoln, June 16, 1863; William A. Hall to Lincoln, June 15, 1863; Israel Washburn Jr. to Lincoln, September 15, 1863, all in ALP; Boston Transcript in Liberator, September 11, 1863; V. Jacque Voegeli, Free but Not Equal: The Midwest and the Negro during the Civil War (Chicago, 1967), 121–31; Flood, 1864, 22.
39. Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows (New York, 2008), 98–113; CW, 7: 23.
40. Springfield Weekly Republican, November 28, 1863; Edward Everett to Lincoln, November 20, 1863, ALP; Chicago Times, November 23, 1863.
41. CW, 1: 108; CG, 37th Congress, 1st Session, 4; Dorothy Ross, “Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism,” JAH, 96 (September 2009), 387; Boritt, Gettysburg Gospel, 118. Psalm 90:10 reads, “The days of our years are threescore and ten.”
42. CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 736–37; Herman Belz, Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the Civil War (Ithaca, 1969), 40–63, 75–79.
43. CW, 6: 440–41; 7: 2.
44. CW, 6: 48–49, 358; Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, eds., Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (Stanford, 1996), 146.
45. CP, 4: 6; Brownson’s Quarterly Review, National Series, 1 (January 1864), 93.
46. New York Times, August 13, 1863; Speech of the Hon. Montgomery Blair (postmaster general) on the Revolutionary Schemes of the Ultra Abolitionists… (n.p., 1863), 3–6; The Works of Charles Sumner (15 vols.; Boston, 1870–83), 7: 493–546.
47. Montgomery Blair, Comments on the Policy Inaugurated by the President, in a Letter and Two Speeches (New York, 1863); Francis P. Blair Sr. to Appoline Blair, October 25, 1863, Blair Family Papers, LC; Henry Wilson to Lincoln, August 21, 1863; Zachariah Chandler to Lincoln, November 15, 1863, both in ALP; Burlingame and Ettlinger, Inside Lincoln’s White House, 105–6; CW, 7: 24.
48. Allan Peskin, Garfield (Kent, Ohio, 1978), 223; Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (New York, 1998), 93–94; William E. Chandler to Montgomery Blair, November 20, 1863, Blair Family Papers, LC.
49. CW, 7: 36–56.
50. Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2 vols.; Baltimore, 2008), 2: 594–98; Chicago Tribune, December 15, 1863; Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, December 11, 1863; New York Times, December 10, 1863; Virginia J. Laas, ed., Wartime Washington: The Civil War Correspondence of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Urbana, Ill., 1991), 325–26; Brownson’s Quarterly Review, National Series, 1 (January 1864), 93; New York Herald, December 11, 1863.
51. James G. Smart, ed., A Radical View: The “Agate” Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid 1861–1865 (2 vols.; Memphis, 1976), 2: 110; Beverly W. Palmer, ed., The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner (2 vols.; Boston, 1990), 2: 216; Boston Commonwealth, December 18, 1863; CP, 4: 202–3, 225, 246; Montgomery Blair to Lincoln, December 6, 1864, ALP.
52. Michael Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks (Baltimore, 1998), 94; Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1863; William B. Hesseltine, Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1960), 96–97; CW, 6: 440.
53. Henry J. Raymond, The Administration and the War (New York, 1863), 9; Victor B. Howard, Black Liberation