by H. W. Brands
“He is a wiry, active man”: Life, Trial and Execution of John Brown, 44–49.
Chapter 33
“Brown seemed weak and haggard”: Life, Trial and Execution of John Brown, 55–93.
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“My dear Wife, and Children”: John Brown to Mary Brown and children, Oct. 31, 1859, in Life and Letters, 579–80.
“positively refused his consent”: Villard, John Brown, 512.
“I am, besides, quite cheerful”: John Brown to Mary Brown and children, Nov. 8, 1859, in Life and Letters, 585–87.
“If you feel sure”: Brown to Mary Brown and children, Nov. 16, 1859, in Life and Letters, 591–93.
“I am waiting the hour”: John Brown to Mary Brown and children, Nov. 30, 1859, in Life and Letters, 613–15.
“This is beautiful country”: New York Daily Tribune, Dec. 5, 1859.
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Chapter 35
“John Brown was hung today”: Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson, ed. Mary Anna Jackson (1892), 130–31.
“John Brown was a man inspired”: “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth, ed. John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper (1997), 53.
“Tomorrow will probably be”: Lee to Mary Lee, Dec. 1, 1859, in Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee, ed. Robert E. Lee (son), (1904), 22.
“I, John Brown”: Villard, John Brown, 554.
“He was a superior man”: Thoreau, “Plea for Captain John Brown.”
“Bold, unflinching, honest”: William C. Beecher and Samuel Scoville, A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1888), 301–2.
“He has abolished slavery”: Phillips eulogy of Brown, Dec. 8, 1859, in American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters and Other Papers Which Illustrate the Foundation, the Development and the Preservation of the United States of America, comp. Selim H. Peabody (1880), 504–7.
“On the evening when the news”: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 268–73.
“Arrangements had been made”: Sanborn, Recollections of Seventy Years, 187–90, 208–11.
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“One warm evening in 1859”: Moncure Daniel Conway, Autobiography (1905), 1:317–18.
“There are but few”: Burlingame MS., 1:14:1573–75, 1580–82.
“Our fathers,” Douglas had said: Lincoln address at Cooper Institute, Feb. 27, 1860, in Collected Works, 3:522–50.
“When Lincoln rose to speak”: Noah Brooks, The Life of Lincoln, in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (1906), 8:186–87.
Chapter 37
“If we were to form”: Lincoln speech at New Haven, March 6, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:17–18.
“My name is new”: Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:33–34.
“It was a very large”: Ward H. Lamon, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1872), 444–46.
“Be careful to give”: Lincoln to Mark Delahay, May 12, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:49.
“In the days of Henry Clay”: Lincoln to Edward Wallace, May 12, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:49.
“Make no contracts”: Marginal note on Missouri Democrat, May 17, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:50.
“Dear Seward,” wrote Thurlow Weed: Weed to Seward, May 20, 1860, Mississippi Valley Historical Review (June 1947): 103–4.
“The enthusiasm with which the result”: New York Daily Tribune, May 19, 1860.
Chapter 38
“Gentlemen, you have nominated”: John B. Alley recollection, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Allen Thorndike Rice (1886), 575.
“Burn this”: Lincoln to Leonard Swett, May 30, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:57.
“Remembering that Peter”: Lincoln to Trumbull, June 5, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:71.
“I think it would be improper”: Lincoln to J. Mason Haight, June 11, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:75.
“I authorize nothing”: Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, June 19, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:79–80.
“You suggest that a visit”: Lincoln to Samuel Haycraft, June 4, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:69–70.
“This is decidedly wrong”: Lincoln to George Fogg, Aug. 16, 1880, in Collected Works, 4:96.
“We know not”: Lincoln to Anson Henry, July 4, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:81–82.
“I suppose as good”: Lincoln to Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:85–86.
“I never gave fifty dollars”: Lincoln to J. C. Lee, Oct. 24, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:131.
“I hesitate to say it”: Lincoln to Simeon Francis, Aug. 4, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:89–90.
“I appear among you”: Lincoln remarks, Aug. 8, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:91.
“My published speeches”: Lincoln to Apolion Cheney, Aug. 14, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:93.
“The people of the South”: Lincoln to John Fry, Aug. 15, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:95.
“I appreciate your motive”: Lincoln to William Speer, Oct. 23, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:130.
“What is it I could say”: Lincoln to George Davis, Oct. 27, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:132–33.
Chapter 39
“The issue before the country”: Charleston Mercury, Nov. 3, 1860.
“Thus the constituted compact”: “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union,” Dec. 24, 1860, Avalon Project, avalon.law.yale.edu.
“After drifting a dreary night”: Wendell Phillips, “The Lesson of the Hour,” in Disunion (1861), 5–25.
“The election of the Republican”: William Lloyd Garrison, “Southern Desperation,” Liberator, Nov. 16, 1860.
“The question in its simplest form”: J. P. B., “Value of the Union,” Liberator, Dec. 28, 1860.
“We hold, with Jefferson”: Greeley in New York Daily Tribune, Nov. 9, 1860, reproduced in Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America (1865), 1:358–59.
Perhaps that was his intent: See David M. Potter, “Horace Greeley and Peaceable Secession,” Journal of Southern History 7, no. 2 (May 1941): 145–59.
“No republican state”: Seward address, Dec. 22, 1860, in The Rebellion Record, ed. Frank Moore, vol. 1 (1861), “Documents and Narratives,” 5–7.
“No man in America”: Douglas to Ninety-Six New Orleans Citizens, Nov. 13, 1860, in Letters of Stephen A. Douglas, 499–503.
Chapter 40
“I find Mr. Lincoln”: Lincoln statement, ca. Nov. 9, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:138.
“disarm the mischief makers”: Truman Smith to Lincoln, Nov. 7, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:138–39.
“This is intended”: Lincoln to Truman Smith, Nov. 10, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:138.
“I could say nothing”: Lincoln to Nathaniel Paschall, Nov. 16, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:139–40.
“I have labored”: Lincoln draft for Trumbull, Nov. 20, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:141–42.
“The Boston Courier”: Lincoln to Henry Raymond, Nov. 28, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:146.
“Let there be no compromise”: Lincoln to Trumbull, Dec. 10, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:149–50.
“Let either be done”: Lincoln to Washburne, Dec. 13, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:151.
“Tell them you judge”: Lincoln to Weed, Dec. 17, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:154.
“It would make me appear”: Lincoln to Gilmer, Dec. 15, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:151–52.
“That the fugitive slave clause”: Lincoln draft resolutions, Dec. 20, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:156–57.
“I take up my pen”: Lincoln to Herndon, Feb. 2, 1848, in Collected Works, 1:448.
“If
you have revised it”: Lincoln to Stephens, Nov. 30, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:146.
“Your obliging answer”: Lincoln to Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:160.
“Personally, I am not your enemy”: Stephens to Lincoln, Dec. 30, 1860, in Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, ed. Myrta Lockett Avary (1910), 60.
Chapter 41
“Secession is neither”: Buchanan annual message, Dec. 3, 1860, in Papers of the Presidents.
“My dear Sir”: Lincoln to Green, Dec. 28, 1860, in Collected Works, 4:162–63.
“I regret your unwillingness”: Green to Lincoln, Jan. 7, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“administer the government”: New York Herald, Jan. 8, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:163n.
“What is our present condition?”: Lincoln to James Hale, Jan. 11, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:172.
“I will suffer death”: Lincoln remarks, ca. Jan. 19–21, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:175–76.
“My friends”: Lincoln farewell address, Feb. 11, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:190.
“Let us believe”: Lincoln remarks at Tolono, Ill., Feb. 11, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:191.
“Look well upon that man!”: Lewis Lloyd, “Lincoln and Pinkerton,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1948): 376.
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“Present my compliments”: Herndon’s Lincoln, 3:493.
“He was completely metamorphosed”: Unidentified eyewitness in ibid., 3:495–96.
“Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lincoln”: New York Times, March 5, 1861.
“Apprehension seems to exist”: Lincoln inaugural address, March 4, 1861, in Papers of the Presidents.
Chapter 43
“He does not mean coercion”: New York Times, March 5, 1861.
“The manner in which Mr. Lincoln”: “The Inaugural Address,” Douglass’ Monthly, April 1861.
“Some Thoughts for the President’s Consideration”: Seward to Lincoln, April 1, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:317–18n.
“If this must be done”: Lincoln to Seward, April 1, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:316–17.
“I appeal to all loyal citizens”: Proclamation 80, April 15, 1861, in Papers of the Presidents.
Chapter 44
“We found the great fortress”: George Kimball, “Origin of the John Brown Song,” New England Magazine, Dec. 1889, 371–76.
“It is now generally admitted”: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (1876), 1:181–82.
“Their slaves, if any they have”: Frémont proclamation, Aug. 31, 1861, Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 14, 1861.
“There is great danger”: Lincoln to Frémont, Sept. 2, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:506.
“Coming from you”: Lincoln to Browning, Sept. 22, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:531–33.
“It is difficult to answer”: Lincoln to Hunter, Dec. 31, 1861, in Collected Works, 5:84–85.
“I, Abraham Lincoln”: Proclamation 90, May 19, 1862, in Papers of the Presidents.
Chapter 45
“to compensate for the inconveniences”: Lincoln special message to Congress, March 6, 1862, in Papers of the Presidents.
“Have you noticed”: Lincoln to Henry Raymond, March 9, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:152–53.
“Gentlemen,” he said: Lincoln remarks, July 12, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:317–19.
Lincoln sent a draft bill: Special message, July 14, 1862, in Papers of the Presidents.
“I have never doubted”: Lincoln signing statement, April 16, 1862, in Papers of the Presidents.
“Why should the people”: Lincoln remarks, Aug. 14, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:370–75.
Chapter 46
“If a decree”: Remarks to a Delegation of Progressive Friends, June 20, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:278–79.
“Had slavery no existence”: Lincoln remarks, July 17, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:327.
“It is by what President Lincoln”: Frederick Douglass, “The Slaveholders’ Rebellion,” speech, July 4, 1862, Douglass’ Monthly, Aug. 1862.
“Dear Sir,” he wrote: New York Daily Tribune, Aug. 20, 1862.
“I have just read yours”: Lincoln to Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:388–89.
“I am approached”: Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations, Sept. 13, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:419–25.
“The will of God prevails”: Lincoln note, ca. Sept. 2, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:403–4.
Chapter 47
“I procured some foolscap”: Eckert quoted in David Homer Bates, “Lincoln in Everyday Humor: Part III—Lincoln in the Telegraph Office,” Century Illustrated Monthly, July 1907, 371–72.
“Things had gone from bad to worse”: F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866), 20–22.
“The President was in deep distress”: Bates note in Collected Works, 5:486n.
“Things looked darker”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 22.
“Commander in Chief of the Army”: Proclamation 93 (Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation), Sept. 22, 1862, in Papers of the Presidents.
“When I finished reading”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 23–24.
“We shout for joy”: “Emancipation Proclaimed,” Douglass’ Monthly, Oct. 1862.
“I appear before you”: New York Daily Tribune, Sept. 25, 1862.
“While I hope”: Lincoln to Hamlin, Sept. 28, 1862, in Collected Works, 5:444.
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“There is no line”: Lincoln annual message, Dec. 1, 1862, in Papers of the Presidents.
“I do order and declare”: Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863, in Papers of the Presidents.
“This was an error”: Stephens speech, March 21, 1861, in Alexander H. Stephens in Public and Private, ed. Henry Cleveland (1866), 721–22.
“the act of lawless ruffians”: Mason Report, 18.
“no change of opinion”: Jefferson Davis, resolution, in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1912), 1:42.
“the most execrable measure”: Davis message to Confederate senate and house of representatives, Jan. 12, 1863, in Rebellion Record, 6:380–81.
Chapter 49
“When first the rebel cannon”: Douglass’ Monthly, March 1863.
“The troops charged the breastworks”: Henry McCulloch report, June 8, 1863, in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1889), ser. 1, vol. 24, pt. 2, 467–70.
“We were attacked”: Matthew M. Miller to his aunt, June 10, 1863, in War of the Rebellion, ser. 3, 3:452–53n. See also Martha M. Bigelow, “The Significance of Milliken’s Bend in the Civil War,” Journal of Negro History 45 (1960): 156–63.
“It is impossible for men”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1898), 86.
“Fellow citizens,” he said: Lincoln response to a serenade, July 7, 1863, in Collected Works, 6:319–20.
“With our aggrieved brethren”: Wood statement to New York City Council, Jan. 6, 1861, in The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion, comp. and ed. Edward McPherson (1865), 42–44.
“We have had great riots”: Torrey to Asa Gray, July 13–16, 1863, in “An Eyewitness Account of the New York City Draft Riots, July, 1863,” ed. A. Hunter Dupree and Leslie H. Fishel Jr., Mississippi Valley Historical Review 47, no. 3 (Dec. 1960): 472–79.
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“It would be very agreeable”: Lincoln to Conkling, Aug. 26, 1863, in Collected Works, 6:406–10.
“I am mortified”: Lincoln to Conkling, Sept. 3, 1863, in Collected Works, 6:430.
“spies or aiders”: Proclamation 104, Sept. 15, 1863, in Papers of the Pr
esidents.
“You are further directed”: Lincoln instructions to tax commissioners, Sept. 16, 1863, in Collected Works, 6:457.
“I do not like this arrangement”: Lincoln to Edwin Stanton, Nov. 17, 1863, in Collected Works, 7:16.
“for several substantial reasons”: Lincoln remarks, Nov. 18, 1863, in Collected Works, 7:16–17.
“Four score and seven years”: Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863, in Papers of the Presidents.
Chapter 51
“Absorbed in his papers”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 30–31.
“Mother, do you see”: Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868), 104–5.
“Resolved,” the platform declared: National Union party platform, June 7, 1864, American Presidency Project.
“To Whom It May Concern”: Lincoln letter, July 18, 1864, in Collected Works, 7:451.
“What is the sine qua non”: New York Herald, July 27, 1864.
“This war must go on”: New York Times, July 24, 1864.
“Jeff Davis was perfectly right”: New York Herald, Aug. 1, 1864.
“Niggers are not fit”: New York Herald, Aug. 4, 1864.
“The President has a right”: New York Times, July 23, 1864.