367 "injury than good": Browning, Diary, 1:555.

367 "join the rebellion": Frederic Bancroft, ed., Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), 1:209.

367 "Hamlin try"; James G. Smart, ed., A Radical View: The "Agate" Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 18611865 (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1976), 2:7475.

367 "good of mankind": CW, 5:370375.

367 "North and South": "The National Controversy," Pacific Appeal, Sept. 6, 1862.

368 "homes in America!": Chase, Diary, p. 112.

368 "benefit of the enslaved": Garnet, in Pacific Appeal, Oct. 11, 1862.

368 "save the Union": CW, 5:388389.

369 "to stand on": Weed to Seward, Aug. 23, 1862; Ashmun to AL, Aug. 25, 1862, both in Lincoln MSS, LC.

369 "to that music": Howe to AL, Aug. 25, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

369 "progress of events": Carpenter, Six Months, p. 22.

369 "alone prevents it": McClellan, Civil War Papers, p. 374.

369 "without reinforcements": Browning, Diary, 1:563564.

370 "do what I wish": Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 216217.

370 "these people now": Hay, Diary, pp. 4546.

371 "the contest proceeds": CW, 5:403404.

371 "unknown to us": CW, 5:478.

371 "army with him": Hay, Diary, 4547; Welles, Diary, 1:113.

372 "called me to it": McClellan, Civil War Papers, p. 428.

372 "the [War] Department": Welles, Diary, 1:9798.

372 "disrespectful to the President": "Opinion of Stanton, Chase, Smith & Bates of Want of Confidence in Genl. McClellan, given to the President," Sept. 2, 1862, copy, Lincoln MSS, LC.

372 "tools we have": Bates's note, on the doc.u.ment previously cited; John Niven, ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, vol. 1 Journals-18291872 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993), p. 369; Hay, Diary, p. 47. Lincoln's words in Chase's diary, "gladly resign his place," have caused some controversy among historians. J. G. Randall, in Lincoln the President, 2:112113, believed the pa.s.sage, which we have only in the handwriting of a copyist, should read "gladly resign his plan." I adopted that reading in my edition of Chase's diaries, Inside Lincoln's Cabinet, pp. 118120, but I defer to the authoritative edition of those diaries edited by Professor John Niven and his a.s.sociates.

372 "Harrisburg and Philadelphia": CW, 5:501.

372 "will do anything": Welles, Diary, 1:116.

373 "side of the mountains": CW, 5:417.