Lincoln Part 135

378 "kills no rebels": CW, 5:444.

378 "Mr. Lincoln's proclamation": Randall, Lincoln the President, 2:175; Richard Nelson Current, Lincoln's Loyalists (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992), p. 50.

379 "and of revenge": Ephraim D. Adams, Great Britain and the American Civil War (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1925), 2:102.

379 "destroy the Union": Nevins, War for the Union, 2:235n.

379 "loyal Slave States": Randall, Lincoln the President, 2:172.

379 "no practical result": Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), p. 187.

380 "beyond our vision": Harper, Lincoln and the Press, p. 177; New York Evening Express, Sept. 23, 1862.

380 "authority of the United States": CW, 5:437.

380 "less it does": James A. Bayard to S. L. M. Barlow, Sept. 30,1862, Barlow MSS, HEH.

381 not radical enough: Carl Schurz to AL, May 19,1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

381 "might be averted": Forney to Hannibal Hamlin, Oct. 1,1862, Hamlin MSS, microfilm, Columbia University.

381 "some time since": Chase, Diary, p. 151.

381 first law partner: Harry E. Pratt, "The Repudiation of Lincoln's War Policy in 1862-Stuart-Swett Congressional Campaign," JISHS 24:129140.

382 "plain sailing": DeWitt C. Clarke to W. H. Seward, Sept. 23, 1862, Seward MSS, UR.

382 "nothing else": Enoch T. Carson to S. P. Chase, Sept. 25, 1862, Chase MSS.

382 himself a dictator: See the excellent treatment of this subject in Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 5165.

382 "writ of 'habeas corpus'": Arthur C. Cole, The Era of the Civil War, 18481870 (Springfield: Illinois Centennial Commission, 1919), p. 297.

382 "red with blood": Seymour is quoted in John Livingston to W. H. Seward, Oct. 4, 1862, Seward MSS, UR.

382 "overwork had wrought": Mary A. Livermore, My Story of the War (Hartford: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1889), pp. 555, 560.

382 "of holy-days": CW, 5:452.

382 a severe rebuff The best way to understand the outcome of the election is to consult the stunning maps in Kenneth C. Martis, The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 17891989 (New York: Macmillan Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1989), pp. 115, 117.

383 "want of confidence": New York Times, Nov. 7, 1862.

383 to "Africanize" Illinois: Bruce Tap, "Race, Rhetoric, and Emanc.i.p.ation: The Election of 1862 in Illinois," Civil War History 39 (June 1993): 101125.

383 in Republican counties: CW, 5:494. For refutation of the theory that more Republicans than Democrats were in the army, see Randall, Lincoln the President, 2:235236.

383 "carry on the Government": Field to AL, Nov. 8, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.