317 "acres of land": B. F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, Sept. 23, 1861, Chandler MSS, LC.

317 "hang a man": Donald, Lincoln's Herndon, p. 150.

317 "property by proclamation?": CW, 4:531532.

317 "an ordinary man": Browning, Diary, 1:516.

317 "and unbounded confidence": George B. McClellan, McClellan's Own Story (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887), pp. 8283.

318 "scare-crow on horseback": Levi S. Gould, "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," Magazine of History with Notes and Queries 16 (Jan. 1913): 12.

318 "vacil[l]ating and inefficient": Zachariah Chandler to Let.i.tia Chandler, Oct. 27, 1861, Chandler MSS, LC.

318 "French and dancing": B. F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, Oct. 8, 1861, Chandler MSS, LC.

318 taken into account: Hay, Diary, pp. 3132.

319 "by parricidal rebellion ": CW, 5:10.

319 "do it all": Hay, Diary, p. 33.

319 "is an idiot": McClellan, Civil War Papers, pp. 8586.

319 Cameron a rascal: Ibid., pp. 106107, 113114.

319 "a rare bird?": Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, p. 45.

320 "and personal dignity": Hay, Diary, pp. 3435.

320 win a victory: Nicolay and Hay, 4:469n.

320 "ones, at variance": CW, 5:51.

320 "Davis at once": Zachariah Chandler to Let.i.tia Chandler, Oct. 27, 1861, Chandler MSS, LC.

320 "vast future also": The full text of the message is in CW, 5:3553.

321 Secretary of State: Clarence E. Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931), p. 124.

321 "Chicago Post Office": Martin B. Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, 18071886 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1961), p. 257.

321 British Foreign Office: For a facsimile of this doc.u.ment, showing Lincoln's numerous corrections, see Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York: North American Review, 1888), following the printed transcription on pp. lvlxix.

322 state in Washington: I have sketched the Lincoln-Sumner relationship in Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), chap. 6, and have drawn it in much more detail in Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), esp. chap. 1.

322 "justly with us": Browning, Diary, 1:516.

323 "of the nation": Bates, Diary, p. 216.