Part 150 (1/2)

”mendacious slanders”: Thomas Heaton to SPC, April 29, 1864, reel 33, Chase Papers.

”violent and injudicious...with discretion”: Entry for April 28, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 20.

told about the speech...”approval of the President”: Riddle, Recollection of War Times, pp. 267, 268.

He considered Frank Blair...”did while here”: James A. Garfield to J. Harrison Rhodes, April 28, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, Vol. I, p. 376.

Chase told Riddle...”perfectly satisfied”: Riddle, Recollection of War Times, pp. 268, 27076.

”in the midst...actual din of battle”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 325.

the National Union Convention: Ibid., pp. 33233. According to Brooks, twenty-three states ”were represented without contest,” and the contested delegations of Missouri and Tennessee were allowed to vote. Unofficial representatives from Confederate states and the territories attended but were not included on the official roll.

David Davis...”no one is necessary”: David Davis to AL, June 2, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Horace Greeley...”so heavy investments”: Horace Greeley, quoted in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, pp. 32021.

”popular instinct...the popular will”: William Dennison, et al., to AL, June 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

”the country at large...but Lincoln's”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 140.

gathered in Cleveland's: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 17780.

with a platform...”among the soldiers”: Resolutions of the ”Radical Democracy” party platform, quoted in NYT, June 1, 1864.

in the telegraph office...”four hundred men”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 19495 (quote p. 195).

”renomination...the odd bits of gossip”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 141.

was initially confronted...”short-haired women”: Clark E. Carr, quoted in Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 192.

the radicals had tacitly...unanimous: Ibid., pp. 195, 196.

the tumultuous applause...”defense of their country”: ”Platform of the Union National Convention,” quoted in note 1 of AL, ”Reply to the Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination,” June 9, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 38182.

”The enthusiasm...Lincoln was spoken”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 335.

”a purge of any”...platform in full: Sixth plank of Union Convention platform, paraphrased in Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 193.

”Harmony was...their kerchiefs”: NR, June 9, 1864.

his towering presence...allotted to a single state: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 199200; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 326.

Weed had initially supported...the victorious Johnson: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 429.

”Stanton's theory...the United States”: Albert E. H. Johnson, quoted in New York Evening Post, July 13, 1891.

a clerk handed him a dispatch...”a President?”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 163.