538 "a free Government": CW, 7:505.

538 "any thing else": Gil Troy, See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate (New York: Free Press, 1991), p. 69.

538 after the election: For advice that Lincoln received on Pennsylvania politics, see Thomas Fitzgerald to AL, Sept. 28, 1864; Fitzgerald to John G. Nicolay, Sept. 29, 1864; William D. Kelley to AL, Sept. 30, 1864-all in Lincoln MSS, LC. Curtin's words appear in Joseph C. McKibbin to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Oct. 1, 1864, Barlow MSS.

538 "than Mr. Conkling": CW, 7:498.

538 "he thinks fit": CW, 7:402, 480481.

538 James Gordon Bennett: In addition to the specific citations that follow, see two excellent studies: David Quentin Voigt, "'Too Pitchy to Touch'-President Lincoln and Editor Bennett," ALQ 6 (Sept. 1950): 139161, and John J. Turner, Jr., and Michael D'Innocenzo, "The President and the Press: Lincoln, James Gordon Bennett and the Election of 1864," LH 76 (Summer 1974): 6369.

539 editor with flattery: Green Clay Smith to AL, Sept. 2, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

539 "too pitchy to touch": Hay, Diary, p. 215.

539 "amount to much": CW, 7:461.

539 "mentioning your name": William O. Bartlett to AL, Oct. 20, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

539 "less repulsive way": Turner and D'Innocenzo, "The President and the Press," p. 67.

539 "and ruined us": CW, 8:100101.

539 September draft call:. Stanton did grant a four-day delay, so that some state quotas and draft districts could be rearranged. Harold M. Hyman and Benjamin P. Thomas, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 328.

539 "you at once": CW, 8:11.

539 Nevada a state: In his Recollections of the Civil War (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898), pp. 174177, Charles A. Dana remembered that Lincoln had actively promoted the statehood of Nevada, primarily to secure additional votes in the next session of Congress for the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery and that he had liberally distributed patronage to persuade Democrats to vote for admission. But Earl S. Pomeroy, "Lincoln, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Admission of Nevada," Pacific Historical Review 12 (1943), 362368, points out numerous errors in Dana's account and shows (p. 367) "there is no reason to suppose that Nevada was a favorite project of Lincoln or that he viewed it with great warmth."

540 "any presidential election": CW, 8:72.

540 "vanity, or ambition": CW, 7:506.

540 "to the country": Segal, Conversations, p. 338.

540 a Washington merchant: O. H. Browning, Diary, July 3, 1873, MS, ISHL.

540 "will know all": Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 346347.

540 "all future ages": CW, 8:96.

540 "with their own": CW, 8:52.

540 "this great nation": CW, 7:506.

541 "fickle-minded man": C. Peter Ripley, ed., The Black Abolitionist Papers: The United States, 18591865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), p. 277.

541 "Despotism and Slavery": Ibid., p. 306. For additional statements of African-Americans' support for Lincoln, see James M. McPherson, The Negro's Civil War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), chap. 21.