Team Of Rivals Part 159

Ashley learned..."the more resolute": AL, quoted in JGN memorandum, January 18, 1865, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, pp. 171, 257 n11.

leader of the..."political a.s.sociates": Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, p. 537.

Democrats who considered changing: Harris, Lincoln's Last Months, p. 128.

"We are like whalers...into eternity": AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. X (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 74.

Rumors circulated..."have failed": AL and James M. Ashley correspondence, quoted in James M. Ashley to WHH, November 23, 1866, in HI, pp. 41314.

"never before...within hearing": Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, before the Ohio Society of New York, February 19, 1899 (privately published), p. 21.

Chief Justice Chase...foreign ministries: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 18586; Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, p. 21.

McAllister..."Southern Confederacy": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 186.

brought forth applause..."without a murmur": Alexander Coffroth, quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. IV (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939), p. 10.

"Hundreds of tally"...votes short: Address of Hon. J. M. Ashley, pp. 2324.

Colfax stood..."Resolution has pa.s.sed": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 18687.

five Democrats...would have lost: Harris, Lincoln's Last Months, p. 132.

"For a moment...ever heard before": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 187.

"Before the members...had pa.s.sed": Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 365.

Ashley brought..."great honor": EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 190.

"The pa.s.sage...emanc.i.p.ation proclamation": Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 36566.

"The occasion was...They will do it": AL, "Response to a Serenade," February 1, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 254.

legislatures in twenty...had spoken: "Thirteenth Amendment," in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 308.

"And to whom...to Abraham Lincoln!": William Lloyd Garrison, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. X, p. 79n.

remained unconvinced...a pa.s.s: AL, pa.s.s for FPB, December 28, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

proceeding on..."without reserve": FPB to Jefferson Davis, December 30, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

arrived in Richmond..."around him": NR, January 19, 1865.

"Oh you Rascal...to see you": EBL to SPL, January 16, 1865, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 463.

"might be the dreams...in his prayers": FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.

his proposal...allied against the French: FPB, address made to Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.

Davis agreed..."a Foreign Power": FPB, memorandum of conversation with Jefferson Davis [January 12, 1865], Lincoln Papers.

Davis agreed to send..."two Countries": Jefferson Davis to FPB, January 12, 1865, Lincoln Papers.

Lincoln consulted...immediately agreed: EMS, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 257.

"You may say...one common country": AL to FPB, January 18, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 22021.

Davis called a cabinet...Campbell: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 590.

flag of truce...the commissioners: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 1865.

"By common consent...a gala day": NYH, February 4, 1865.

"harbingers of peace...common sentiment": NR, February 3, 1865.

"It was night...throughout the country": Stephens, A Const.i.tutional View of the Late War, pp. 59798.

Seward headed south..."sincere liberality": AL to WHS, January 31, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 250.

"convinced"...meet with them personally: USG to EMS, February 1, 1865, Lincoln Papers.

"Induced by a despatch of Gen. Grant": AL to WHS, February 2, 1865, in CW, VIII, p. 256.

"Say to the gentlemen...can get there": AL to USG, February 2, 1865, in ibid.

a single valet...Annapolis: NYH, February 3, 1865.

"supposed to be"...little past ten: NYH, February 5, 1865.

Lincoln joined Seward...River Queen: NYT, February 6, 1865.

saloon of..."streamers and flags": Stephens, A Const.i.tutional View of the Late War, p. 599; NYT, February 6, 1865 (quote).

Stephens opened..."Sections of the country?": Stephens, A Const.i.tutional View of the Late War, p. 599.

"was altogether...was written or read": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 260.

"steward, who came"...agreement on any issue: Stephens, A Const.i.tutional View of the Late War, pp. 619, 60001, 612, 613, 609, 617.

radicals had worked...excoriated him: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, p. 202.

"the leading members...will dishonor us": NYT, February 3, 1865.

Both branches...on the proceedings: Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., in Lincoln's Time, pp. 20304.

Stanton worried..."serve their purpose": Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 338.

Lincoln's report..."given to Seward": Brooks, Lincoln Observed, pp. 16263.