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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.
CHAPTER 15: ”MY BOY IS GONE”