"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. 26061.
unanimous disapproval..."adverse feeling": Entry for February 6, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 237.
Usher believed..."a.s.sault 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. 63940.
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, 18651881, 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, 18611898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), pp. 7678 (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.
Dougla.s.s decided..."of other citizens": Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, p. 803.
visited Chase"s..."a strange thing": Ibid., pp. 799800.
steady rain...foreign ministries: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln"s Time, pp. 21011; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, pp. 418, 420 (quote).
"One amba.s.sador...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. 42324.
"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, 2021.
"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 of Mr. Lincoln," Scribner"s, p. 27.
"Fondly do we hope...with all nations": AL, "Second Inaugural Address," March 4, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 33233.
"as he became...Church member": Leonard Swett to WHH, January 17, 1866, in HI, pp. 16768.
crowd cheered...drew to a close: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, March 4, 1865.
"the largest crowd...been here yet": JGN to TB, March 5, 1865, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
president was...five thousand people: Star, March 6, 1865.
"It was a grand...every 4 minutes": Entry for March 5, 1865, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 466.
"On reaching the door...you liked it!": Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, pp. 80304.
his own a.s.sessment..."Almighty and them": AL to TW, March 15, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 356.
New York World..."statesmanship": New York World, March 6, 1865, quoted in Harris, Lincoln"s Last Months, p. 149.
Tribune charged...chance for peace: NYTrib, March 6, 1865, quoted in Harris, p. 150.
"That rail-splitting...keynote of this war": Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to Charles Francis Adams, Sr., quoted in Harris, Lincoln"s Last Months, p. 148.
London Spectator... "village lawyer": London Spectator, March 25, 1865, quoted in Lincoln As They Saw Him, ed. Herbert Mitgang (New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956), pp. 447, 446.
Arnold overheard...Seward himself: Harris, Lincoln"s Last Months, p. 148.
"The President"s...position in history": Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 40405.
"He has called...sickening to the heart": Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, January 10, 1865, reprinted in Liberator, March 3, 1865.