276 "time is artificial": CW, 4:238.

276 "not deciding anything": CW, 4:195196.

277 "stand by it": CW, 4:220. In the source the words are in full capitals.

277 "of this Union": CW, 4:233.

277 "foot down firmly": CW, 4:237.

277 pa.s.sed through Baltimore: This account of the Baltimore plot is based on the following sources: Norma B. Cuthbert, ed., Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861 (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1949), which publishes doc.u.ments from the Pinkerton records; Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, Publishers, 1866), 1:279281, which gives Lincoln's own version; John W. Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873), 1:248256, which offers Felton's narrative; WHH, interview with Norman B. Judd, [1866], HWC; Allan Pinkerton to WHH, Aug. 23, 1866, HWC; and Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 18471865, ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (Washington, D.C.: 1911), pp. 4046.

277 "in doing so": Allan Pinkerton to WHH, Aug. 23, 1866, HWC.

277 "to surrender it": CW, 4:240.

278 "piece of cowardice": WHH, interview with Norman B. Judd, [1866], HWC.

278 "out Judd's plan": Lamon, Recollections, p. 42.

278 "at his absence": Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, p. 13.

278 "a brainless egotistical fool": Ibid., p. xx.

278 "that on me": Ibid., p. 82.

279 remarkable course: Herbert Mitgang, ed., Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971), p. 230.

279 "on his Administration": Strong, Diary, p. 102.

279 "risk was necessary": Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, p. xvi.

279 the first day: This account of Lincoln's schedule is based on Lincoln Day by Day, 3:2122.

279 "natural, and agreeable": Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Washington... 18461861 (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 511.

279 "peculiarly pleasant": Robert W. Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 841.

280 "where it may": Baringer, A House Dividing, p. 307.

280 "other the more": CW, 4:246247.

280 "without moral grace": Baringer, A House Dividing, p. 313.

280 "himself laughs uproariously": New York Evening Post, Mar. 3, 1861; J. W. Schulte Nordholt, "The Civil War Letters of the Dutch Amba.s.sador," JISHS 54 (Winter 1961): 361.

280 "man Douglas is!": George Fort Milton, The Eve of Conflict: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934), p. 545.

281 eleven favored Chase: CW, 4:248.