453 "praised by the other": CW, 6:234.

453 "of a polecat": Joseph Medill to AL, Oct. 3, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

453 "make Missouri free": Browning, Diary, 1:611612.

453 "of immediate emanc.i.p.ation": New York Herald, June 12, 1863.

453 "vested interest therein": Hay, Diary, p. 73.

453 "pettifogging, piddling politician": William E. Parrish, Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union, 18611865 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1963), p. 160.

453 "wagon or not": Nicolay and Hay, 8:214.

454 "what to forbear": CW, 6:499504.

454 "friends in Missouri": Edward Bates to AL, Oct. 22, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

454 "plowed round them": Chicago Tribune, Oct. 30, 1863.

454 "inspire the South": T. J. Barnett to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Sept. 14, 1863, Barlow MSS, HEH.

454 defeat of the Democrats: William B. Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), pp. 319339, offers a full account of these elections.

455 "of President Lincoln": S. P. Chase to Jay Cooke, Sept. 4, 1863, Chase MSS.

455 "he was chosen": Welles, Diary, 1:470.

455 "prosecution of this war": Nicolay and Hay, 7:378.

456 "their old bearings": Hay, Diary, p. 77.

456 the Davis government: For details on these abortive negotiations, see Welles, Diary, 1:358363.

456 "commenced in Illinois": Conkling to AL, Aug. 21, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

456 "it very slowly": CW, 6:414.

457 "thanks to all": CW, 6:406410.

457 "with the greatest enthusiasm": James C. Conkling to AL, Sept. 4, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

457 "an historic doc.u.ment": Wilson to AL, Sept. 3, 1863; Sumner to Lincoln, Sept. 7, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

457 "honest Abraham Lincoln": New York Times, Sept. 7,1863.

457 "G.o.d bless Old Abe!": Chicago Tribune, Sept. 3, 1863.

457 "before it comes": Hay, Diary, p. 92.