Part 106 (1/2)

”seven days and seventeen hours”: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 140.

”grand...in every respect”: NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

”convincing...manner”: New York Evening Post, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

”eminently...under the Const.i.tution”: Philadelphia Bulletin, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

”the work...its contents”: Commercial Advertiser, N.Y., reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

”wretchedly...unstatesmanlike paper”: Hartford Times, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

”It is he...Civil War”: Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., quoted in Albany Evening Journal, March 5, 1861.

”couched in the cool...civil war”: Richmond Enquirer, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.

”might as well...inevitable”: Herald, Wilmington, N.C., quoted in Star, March 7, 1861.

”won some favorable...slave states”: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 248.

”without getting...can stand”: WHS to FAS, March 8, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 518.

”been fully justified...my country”: Entry for March 4, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.

Radicals...considered an appeasing tone: T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), p. 22.

Frederick Dougla.s.s...cruel slaveholders: Frederick Dougla.s.s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla.s.s, an American Slave, introduction by Houston A. Baker, Jr. (The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845; New York: Penguin Books, 1986), chapters IX.

”it was unlawful...rid of thinking!”: Ibid., pp. 78 (first quote), 84 (second and third quotes).

”no more pervasive...in America”: Blight, Frederick Dougla.s.s' Civil War, p. 3.

”It has taught...the Presidency”: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (December 1860).

”no lawful power...Pierces and Buchanans”: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (April 1861).

White House family quarters: William Seale, The President's House: A History, Vol. I (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: White House Historical a.s.sociation/National Geographic Society, 1986) pp. 366, 368, 377, 37980, ill.u.s.tration 41.

”the grounds...closets”: WHS to home, March 16, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 530.

hundreds of people...securing a job: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 147; William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), p. 5.

”from Edward...that he was handsome”: Grimsley, ”Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 47, 48.

memorizing railroad timetables...”perfect precision”: John Hay, ”Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century 41 (November 1890), p. 35.

Tad...”worry of the household”: Grimsley, ”Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 4849.

A speech impediment: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 8; Hay, ”Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 35.

”a very bad...discipline”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.