Part 130 (1/2)
”The courage...popular government”: AL, ”Congratulations to the Army of the Potomac,” December 22, 1862, in CW, VI, p. 13.
”awful arithmetic...Confederacy gone”: AL, paraphrased in Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 101.
”more depressed...[his] life”: Entry for December 18, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 601.
Tuesday, December 16...”cause was lost”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 23132 (quote p. 232).
Chase had claimed...”of the cabinet”: Benjamin Wade, paraphrased in entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 597.
had repeatedly griped...”salvation of the country”: SPC to John Sherman, September 20, 1862, reel 22, Chase Papers (quote); SPC to Zachariah Chandler, September 20, 1862, reel 1, Chandler Papers, DLC.
”paralizing influence...the President”: Boston Commonwealth, December 6, 1862, quoted in David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), p. 87.
”President de facto...to Uncle Abe's nose”: Chicago Tribune, quoted in Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 352.
”controlling influence...of the President”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 232.
”should go in...dismissal of Mr Seward”: Benjamin Wade, paraphrased in entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 597.
”that measures should...to the war”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 234.
”a want of confidence...from the Cabinet”: Senator Grimes, paraphrased in ibid., p. 233.
Fessenden asked...”on mere rumors”: Ibid., p. 235.
”had no evidence...our cause greatly”: Entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, pp. 59798.
”without entire...productive of evil”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 236.
”give time for reflection”: Entry for December 16, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 598.
Preston King felt...”'I can't get out'”: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, pp. 14647 (quotes); entry for December 19, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 194.
”They wish to...impose upon a child”: Entry for December 18, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 600.
”disappointed...and chagrined”: Entry for December 20, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 201.
Frances had journeyed...family for Christmas: Entry for December 22, 1862, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
”Do not come...& uncomfortable night”: Entry for c. December 18 and 20, 1862, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
Charles Sumner was particularly...of the Confederates: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 242.
Republican senators convened...December 18: Ibid., pp. 23638.
”I saw in a moment...ray of hope”: Entry for December 18, 1862, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 600.
during a three-hour session: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 242.
Jacob Collamer...”purpose and action”: Committee of Nine paper, quoted in ibid., p. 239.