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": Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, p. 791.
"had absolutely no foundation...to the quick": Helm, The True Story of Mary, pp. 20809.
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": Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, 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 Emanc.i.p.ation 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: 18311877 (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...18611872, 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 Emanc.i.p.ation 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: 18601874 (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893), p. 114.
Army of the Potomac into winter quarters..."Valley Forge of the war": McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 58688, 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. 10506.
"Ought this war"...then let her go: Clement L. Vallandigham, "The Const.i.tution-Peace-Reunion," January 14, 1863, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 37th Cong., 3rd sess. pp. 55, 5759 (quotes on p. 55).
The time had come...let her go: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 70.
Saulsbury...removed from the Senate floor: Ibid., pp. 8788.
"baneful...only for the negro": Andrew H. Foote, paraphrased in entry for January 9, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 611.
Orville Browning, who considered..."the government": Entry for January 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 620.
"conversed with...will re enlist": Entry for January 29, 1863, in ibid., pp. 62021 (quotes p. 621).
"the alarming condition...a fixed thing": Entry for January 19, 1863, in ibid., p. 616.
"the democrats would soon...leave them": Entry for January 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 620.
"The resources...can be maintained": AL, "To the Workingmen of London," February 2, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 8889.
the people"s representatives had pa.s.sed: See Curry, Blueprint for Modern America.
"the grandest pledge...means to prevail": NYT, February 20, 1863.
"largest popular gathering...home of the brave": NYT, April 21, 1863.
"the greatest popular...in Washington": Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., April 1, 1863.
Lincoln was dressed...of his father"s embrace: Jane Grey Swisshelm, quoted in St. Cloud [Minn.] Democrat, April 9, 1863, in Frank Klement, "Jane Grey Swisshelm and Lincoln: A Feminist Fusses and Frets," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 6 (December 1950), pp. 23536.
Lincoln sent a telegram to Thurlow Weed..."and so I sent for you": AL, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 43435.
The amount needed was $15,000: Ibid., p. 435; AL to TW, February 19, 1862, in CW, VI, pp. 11213.
"to influence...Connecticut elections": Entry for February 10, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 235.
"a stunning blow to the Copperheads": NYT, April 8, 1863.
"puts the Administration...seas to the end": NYT, April 9, 1863.
"frightened"...depress voter sentiment: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, April 23, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln"s Side, p. 38.
"I rejoiced...the War commenced": EMS to Isabella Beecher Hooker, May 6, 1863, in Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 160.
"The feeling of...everywhere manifest": JGN to TB, March 22, 1863, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
"The glamour...the denunciations": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 138.
when Lincoln engaged..."be crippled": Entry for January 17, 1863, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"Well...not one has got there yet": AL, quoted in "Personal," Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1863.
"smoking cigars..."good victuals"": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 175.