Part 160 (1/2)
”as the reading...President Lincoln”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 207, 208.
”Indeed...than Abraham Lincoln”: Harper's Weekly, February 25, 1865.
employed the failed...slavery intact: Richmond Dispatch, February 7, 1865, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X, p. 130.
”I can have...element of my nature!”: Jefferson Davis, quoted in NR, February 13, 1865.
drafted a proposal...”executive control”: AL, ”To the Senate and House of Representatives,” February 5, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 26061.
unanimous disapproval...”adverse feeling”: Entry for February 6, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 237.
Usher believed...”a.s.sault on the President”: J. P. Usher, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 66.
Stanton had long maintained...”compensation for slaves”: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 258.
Fessenden declared...”come from us”: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Francis Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907), p. 8.
sum he proposed...”approved the measure”: J. P. Usher, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 66.
Sherman had headed north...on February 17: Entry for February 17, 1865, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 63940.
Stanton ordered...”parts of the city”: NR, February 22, 1865.
”cheerful...brightest day in four years”: Entry for February 22, 1865, Welles Diary, Vol. II, p. 245.
”more depressed”...in the four years: Entry for February 23, 1865, in The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. II, 18651881, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall; Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Vol. XXII (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1933), p. 8.
low spirits...”brigand, and pirate”: Jonathan Truman Dorris, Pardon and Amnesty Under Lincoln and Johnson: The Restoration of the Confederates to Their Rights and Privileges, 18611898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), pp. 7678 (quote p. 77).
”I had to stand...out of my mind yet”: Henry P. H. Bromwell, quoted in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), p. 41.
he would ”not receive...seven o'clock p.m.”: NR, March 2, 1865.
”The hopeful condition”...the capital: NR, March 1, 1865.
so overcrowded...”found for them”: NR, March 3, 1865.
Dougla.s.s decided...”of other citizens”: Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, p. 803.
visited Chase's...”a strange thing”: Ibid., pp. 799800.
steady rain...foreign ministries: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 21011; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 418, 420 (quote).
”One amba.s.sador...feet on the floor”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 421.
Johnson rose...”extraordinarily red”: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 211.
”in a state of manifest...a petrified man”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, pp. 422, 423.
”All this is...drunk or crazy”: Entry for March 4, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 252.