Part 159 (1/2)

Ashley learned...”the more resolute”: AL, quoted in JGN memorandum, January 18, 1865, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, pp. 171, 257 n11.

leader of the...”political a.s.sociates”: Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, p. 537.

Democrats who considered changing: Harris, Lincoln's Last Months, p. 128.

”We are like whalers...into eternity”: AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. X (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 74.

Rumors circulated...”have failed”: AL and James M. Ashley correspondence, quoted in James M. Ashley to WHH, November 23, 1866, in HI, pp. 41314.

”never before...within hearing”: Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, before the Ohio Society of New York, February 19, 1899 (privately published), p. 21.

Chief Justice Chase...foreign ministries: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 18586; Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, p. 21.

McAllister...”Southern Confederacy”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 186.

brought forth applause...”without a murmur”: Alexander Coffroth, quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. IV (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939), p. 10.

”Hundreds of tally”...votes short: Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, pp. 2324.

Colfax stood...”Resolution has pa.s.sed”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 18687.

five Democrats...would have lost: Harris, Lincoln's Last Months, p. 132.

”For a moment...ever heard before”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 187.

”Before the members...had pa.s.sed”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 365.

Ashley brought...”great honor”: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 190.

”The pa.s.sage...emanc.i.p.ation proclamation”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 36566.

”The occasion was...They will do it”: AL, ”Response to a Serenade,” February 1, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 254.

legislatures in twenty...had spoken: ”Thirteenth Amendment,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.

”And to whom...to Abraham Lincoln!”: William Lloyd Garrison, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X, p. 79n.

remained unconvinced...a pa.s.s: AL, pa.s.s for FPB, December 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

proceeding on...”without reserve”: FPB to Jefferson Davis, December 30, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

arrived in Richmond...”around him”: NR, January 19, 1865.

”Oh you Rascal...to see you”: EBL to SPL, January 16, 1865, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 463.

”might be the dreams...in his prayers”: FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.

his proposal...allied against the French: FPB, address made to Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.

Davis agreed...”a Foreign Power”: FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.