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he suggested his own provocative logic: Bradley, Simon Cameron, p. 203; Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 134 n7.
"It is clearly a right...from the enemy": "From the Report of the Secretary of War, Dec. 1, 1861," in Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion, 18611865, 2nd edn. (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Philp & Solomons, 1865; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), p. 249 (quote). For the official version of the annual report of the secretary of war sent to Congress, see OR, Ser. 3, Vol. I, pp. 698708 (esp. p. 708).
It remains unclear: See Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 13435; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, pp. 23637, 260.
"an abolitionist at heart": Jeremiah S. Black, "Senator Wilson and Edwin M. Stanton," Galaxy 9 (June 1870), p. 822.
his boyhood pledge to his father: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 25.
"my personal friend...war against Slavery": CS to Francis Lieber, December 19, 1861, reel 64, Summer Papers.
when Stanton talked with fellow Democrats: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 135.
his approval emboldened Cameron...to the president: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 116.
"This will never do!"...copy already sent: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 136.
"must be provided for in some way": AL, "Annual Message to Congress," December 3, 1861, in CW, V, p. 48.
"otherwise unconst.i.tutional...necessity": AL to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 28182.
Lincoln informed Cameron...the vetoed language: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, p. 127.
he complained..."dreaded most": Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 39495 (quote p. 395).
"have sought our s.h.i.+ps...a livelihood": NYT, December 4, 1861, p. 3.
Welles resolved that...into the Confederacy: Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 395.
he outlined his ideas..."new beginner to help him": AL, "Annual Message to Congress," December 3, 1861, in CW, V, pp. 48, 49, 52.
"Away with...free as the white man": Worthington G. Snethen to SPC, December 10, 1861, reel 18, Chase Papers.
"his attachment...than iron": "The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered: An Address Delivered in Hudson, Ohio, on 12 July 1854," The Frederick Dougla.s.s Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. Vol. II: 184754, ed. John W. Bla.s.singame (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 524.
"Give him wages...by hard work": Dougla.s.s' Monthly (January 1862), p. 579.
"One black regiment...free colored people": Dougla.s.s' Monthly (May 1861), p. 451.
"We are striking...the loyal North": Frederick Dougla.s.s, "The Reasons for Our Troubles," ed. Philip S. Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Dougla.s.s. Vol. III: The Civil War, 18611865 (New York: International Publishers, 1952), p. 204.
"It appeals to the judgment...aspirations": NYT Supplement, December 4, 1861.
"the moderate men...with popularity": Ibid.
"country and the world...railing accusations": NYTrib, December 4, 1861.
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"unusually beautiful...than January": NYT Supplement, January 3, 1862.
"For the first time...in old times": FAS to LW, January 1, 1862, reel 119, Seward Papers.
"All the world"...opened at noon: Entry for January 1, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 221.
The Marine Band...cabinet officials: Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 10506; NYT Supplement, January 3, 1862.
"a compact little...head arrangement": Entry for January 1, 1862, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
Lincoln cordially greeted every guest: Leech, Reveille in Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 12223.
"the bottom...out of the tub": AL, quoted in Montgomery C. Meigs, "General M. C. Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War," American Historical Review 26 (January 1921), p. 292.
"If the new year...to be expected": Entry for January 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 137.
Seward questioned whether..."to Mr. Cameron": Maunsell B. Field, Memories of Many Men and of Some Women: Being Personal Recollections of Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes, Presidents, Statesmen, Authors, and Artists, at Home and Abroad, During the Last Thirty Years (New York: Harper & Bros., 1874), pp. 26667.
Lincoln's initial preferences...Joseph Holt: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 116.
West Point graduate Montgomery Blair..."sound judgment": Gideon Welles, "Narrative of Events," in "Three Ma.n.u.scripts of Gideon Welles," comp. A. Howard Meneely, American Historical Review 31 (April 1926), p. 491.
Seward would never forget: Wilson, "Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly (1870), p. 465.
"to be loved...power to express": EMS to SPC, December 2, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
"He puts his whole...upon the issue": Philadelphia Press, January 20, 1862.
an uncharacteristically brusque letter: Memorandum of conversation between SPC and J. W. Schuckers, January 22, 1871, Papers of Jacob William Schuckers, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.
"expressed a desire...minister to Russia": AL to Simon Cameron, January 11, 1862, reel 8, Papers of Simon Cameron, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Cameron Papers, DLC].
to have wept..."personal degradation": Recollection of Alexander McClure, in Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 234.
Chase drove Cameron..."to all concerned": Entry for January 12, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 32526.
Lincoln agreed to withdraw his terse letter: A. K. McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollections of War and Politics During the Lincoln Administration, 4th edn. (Philadelphia: Times Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1892; Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), p. 165.
"gratify...could render at home": AL to Simon Cameron, January 11, 1862, reel 8, Cameron Papers, DLC. For Cameron's resignation letter, see Simon Cameron to AL, January 11, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
Cameron expressed his fervent opinion: Simon Cameron to Frank A. Flower, March 6, 1887, reel 16, Cameron Papers, DLC.
Lincoln asked George Harding..."of the three": Charles F. Benjamin, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 136.
Ellen..."objected to his acceptance": Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 153.
diminish the lifestyle of the Stanton family: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 137.
