Part 116 (1/2)

”has cast...step backwards”: Joseph Medill to SPC, September 15, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.

”poor white trash”: Benjamin F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, September 23, 1861, reel 1, Papers of Zachariah Chandler, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.

”Many blunders...them all”: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (October 1861), pp. 53031.

Blair and Meigs delivered: Entry for September 18, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 67.

”is determined...Missouri”: MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.

”more damage...can do”: EB to SPC, September 11, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.

”distressed & mortified”: EB to James O. Broadhead, September 28, 1861, Broadhead Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

”Immense mischief...place of action”: EB to Hamilton Gamble, October 3, 1861, Hamilton Rowan Gamble Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gamble Papers, Mos.h.i.+].

”I think G.o.d...in his Cabinet”: FB to MB, October 7, 1861, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 8384.

”a letter directing...and conduct”: Simon Cameron to AL, October 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

”was very much mortified”...talked with the president: Simon Cameron to AL, October 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

”const.i.tution...with its management”: NYT, October 31, 1861. For the report, see Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 54049.

”yielded to delay...deserve it”: Entry of October 22, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 19899.

Lincoln dispatched...Swett: Entry for October 24, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 73.

”the most remarkable”...publication: NYT, October 31, 1861.

When Swett reached Missouri: Leonard Swett to AL, November 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

”frown came over...'my lines?'”: General T. I. McKenny, quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, Sangamon Edition (4 vols., n.p.: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), pp. 12225 (quote p. 124).

”justified...is possible”: NYT, November 7, 1861.

”Slowly...our judgment”: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 31, 1861.

”Lincoln...the whole story”: NYH, November 7, 1861.

”I am...publ[ic] duty”: SPC to Richard Smith, November 11, 1861, reel 18, Chase Papers.

the Confederacy had dispatched...Mason and Slidell: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 308.

Charles Wilkes...Fort Warren in Boston: NYT, November 17 and 19, 1861.

”We do not believe...been found”: NYT, November 17, 1861.

Wilkes was feted...a great banquet: NYT, November 26 and 27, 1861.

”three cheers...Wilkes”: Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 315.