Part 127 (1/2)
”profoundly concerned...and slavery”: Entry for July 21, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 348.
Lincoln read several orders...”decide the question”: Entry for July 21, 1862, ibid., pp. 34849.
another cabinet session; Carpenter painting: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 11; entry for July 22, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 351.
Lincoln took the floor...”on the slavery question”: Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 844.
”had resolved upon...their advice”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 21.
His draft proclamation...”and forever”: AL, ”Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation-First Draft,” [July 22, 1862], in CW, V, p. 337.
statistics on slaves in border states and Confederacy: These statistics are based on 1860 census data for the numbers of slaves living in the border slave states that remained in the Union, and the eleven slave states that formed the Confederacy.
”fraught with consequences...could not penetrate”: Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 841.
the members were startled...”immediate promulgation”: EMS memorandum, July 22, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
Bates's approval...cadet at West Point: Introduction, and entries for April 14, 1862, and November 30, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. xvxvi, 250, 319.
his ”very decided...the white race”: Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), pp. 84445.
”among our colored...'which they profess'”: Entry for September 25, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 26364.
Welles remained silent...”intensify the struggle”: Memorandum from September 22, 1862, quoted in Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 848.
”extreme exercise of war powers”: Entry for October 1, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 159.
Caleb Smith...”attack the administration”: Usher, President Lincoln's Cabinet, p. 17.
Blair spoke up...”were in vain”: Welles, ”History of Emanc.i.p.ation,” Galaxy (1872), p. 847.
”beyond anything...universal emanc.i.p.ation”: EMS memorandum, July 22, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
”depredation and ma.s.sacre...soon as practicable”: Entry for July 22, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 351.
The bold proclamation...”was his specialty”: Entry for August 22, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 415.
”golden moment...four thousand years”: Christopher Wolcott to Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, July 27, 1862, in Wolcott, ”Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 158a.
Lincoln later maintained...”Seward spoke”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 21.
a racial war in the South...their economic interests: EMS memorandum, July 22, 1862, reel 3, Stanton Papers, DLC.
”The public mind...to give them effect”: WHS to FAS, August 7, 1862, in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 121.
”would have been...territory was conquered”: Carpenter, ”A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.
”Mr. President...shriek, on the retreat”: WHS, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 2122.