470 "Sumner's heresies": James Dixon to Montgomery Blair, Oct. 7, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

470 "a Copperhead orator": Thaddeus Stevens to S. P. Chase, Oct. 8, 1863, Chase MSS.

471 "the loyal minority": Hay, Diary, pp. 112113.

471 "a new life": CW, 7:40.

471 "retreated from it": Chicago Tribune, Jan. 17, 1864; Christopher N. Breiseth, "Lincoln and Frederick Dougla.s.s," JISHS 68 (Feb. 1975): 926; Dorothy Wickenden, "Lincoln and Dougla.s.s: Dismantling the Peculiar Inst.i.tution," Wilson Quarterly 14 (Autumn 1990): 102112.

471 "as to slaves": CW, 7:5356.

472 "in any other way": CW, 7:5052.

472 "revolutionary struggle": CW, 5:49.

472 "we are now pa.s.sing": CW, 6:411.

472 something for everybody: Belz, Reconstructing the Union, pp. 155165, offers an able a.n.a.lysis of the message.

473 "the Supreme Court": CW, 7:54, 56.

473 "factions of the Republican party": New York World, Dec. 11, 1863.

473 "millennium had come": Hay, Diary, pp. 131132.

473 "his country's shame": Jonathan T. Dorris, Pardon and Amnesty Under Lincoln and Johnson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), p. 43.

474 "of Senator Sumner": New York Tribune, Dec. 10,1863; New York Herald, Dec. 11,1863.

474 "territorial project": John Hay, Diary, Dec. 10,1863, photostat, Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society; Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), p. 325.

474 "at the right time": E. Delafield Smith to AL, Dec. 10,1863; Thad S. Seybold to AL, Dec. 10,1863; R. H. McCurdy to AL, Dec. 10, 1863; William Dennison to AL, Dec. 10,1863-all in Lincoln MSS, LC.

474 "[Republican] convention meets": Chicago Tribune, Dec. 14, 1863; Medill to Joseph K. C. Forrest, Dec. 17, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

474 "anything about it": Hay, Diary, p. 112.

474 "schooled to the task": CW, 8:326.

475 "decline, if tendered": CW, 6:540.

475 "desire-of course": George T. Brown to Lyman Trumbull, Nov. 12, 1863, Trumbull MSS, LC.

475 "in the matter": Katherine Helm, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928), pp. 230231.

475 "I can't give him!": Chicago Tribune, Jan. 9, 1864; San Francisco Daily Alta California, Jan. 3, 1864; Agnes Macdonnell, "America Then and Now: Recollections of Lincoln," Contemporary Review 3 (1917): 567568; William A. Croffut, "Lincoln's Washington," Atlantic Monthly 145 (Jan. 1930): 63.

476 "devil of stubbornness": Helen Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1949), pp. 191192.