Lincoln
Chapter 156 : 504 "pap-journalists, expectants": Adam Gurowski, Diary: 186364-65 (Was.h.i.

504 "pap-journalists, expectants": Adam Gurowski, Diary: 186364-65 (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1866), p. 249.

504 "was at Chicago": John G. Nicolay to John Hay, June 6, 1864, Nicolay MSS, LC.

504 "decent town meeting": James G. Smart, ed., A Radical View: The "Agate" Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 18611865 (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1976), 2:164.

504 "slavery in the United States": Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864 (Minneapolis: Charles W. Johnson, 1893), p. 177. For Lincoln's role, see James A. Rawley, "Lincoln and Governor Morgan," ALQ 6 (Mar. 1951): 296297.

504 "you one foot": Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions, p. 180.

504 "and the Union": Ibid., p. 196.

504 "not even interesting": David Davis to AL, June 2, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

505 action of the convention: John G. Nicolay to John Hay, June 5, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

505 amendment abolis.h.i.+ng slavery: Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions, pp. 225226.

505 "malignants and malcontents": Hugh J. Hastings to F. W. Seward, June 8,1864, Seward MSS, UR.

505 "judge for itself": CW, 7:376.

505 "enthusiasm about it": Smart, A Radical View, 2:170.

506 balanced and inconclusive: McClure told his story in Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times (4th ed.; Philadelphia: Times Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1892), pp. 115130, and published his evidence in an appendix, "The Nicolay-McClure Controversy," pp. 457481. The Hannibal Hamlin MSS (microfilm, Columbia University) contain a large body of material that Hamlin's grandson collected, and Nicolay defended his case in a supplement to Charles E. Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Riverside Press, 1899), pp. 591615. The charge against Sumner is skeptically reviewed in Donald, Sumner, pp. 169173.

506 endorsed his reconstruction program: Robert L. Morris, "The Lincoln-Johnson Plan for Reconstruction and the Republican Convention of 1864," LH 71 (Spring 1969): 3340.

506 own vice presidential nominee: This is also the conclusion of James F. Glonek, "Lincoln, Johnson, and the Baltimore Ticket," ALQ 6 (Mar. 1951): 255271, the best review of the evidence. H. Draper Hunt, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1969), pp. 176189, reaches the opposite conclusion.

506 "called the Platform": CW, 7:380.

507 "'when crossing streams'": CW, 7:384.

507 word to Chase: Chase, Diary, p. 224.

508 "of open revolt": CW, 7:412413.

508 submitted his resignation: CW, 7:414.

508 "I will go". Hay, Diary, p. 199.

508 "the public service": CW, 7:419.

508 "fitness of selection": Chase, Diary, pp. 223224.

508 "alone this time": Segal, Conversations, pp. 330331.

508 "than a post": New York Herald, July 4,1864.