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476 "my other friends": Donald, Sumner, pp. 167169.
476 "s.h.i.+elded the rebels": Reasons Against the Re-Nomination of Abraham Lincoln. Adopted February 15, 1864, by a Republican Meeting at Davenport, Iowa, pamphlet, HEH.
477 "of the nation": Arthur C. Cole, "President Lincoln and the Illinois Radical Republicans," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 4 (Mar. 1918): 432.
477 "friend to you": Zornow, p. 19.
478 "reelection of Mr. Lincoln": Hay, Diary, p. 99.
478 "affections of the ma.s.ses": Chicago Tribune, Dec. 30, 1863.
478 "should you desire it": Albert Smith to AL, Dec. 12, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.
478 "to the Presidential chair": James Clay Rice to Henry Wilson, Nov. 11, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.
478 "[Republican]National Convention": George Bergner to AL, Jan. 14, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC
478 "a ratification meeting": Zornow, p. 46.
478 "to its purpose": Hay, Diary, p. 152. John Niven, Salmon P. Chase: A Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), is a richly detailed life. Donnal V. Smith, Chase and Civil War Politics (Columbus, Ohio: F. J. Heer Printing Co, 1931), is indispensable.
479 "forever of slavery": Welles, Diary, 1:410.
479 of "colored loyalists": Chase to Thomas J. Durant, Nov. 19, 1863, Chase MSS; Chase to AL, Apr. 12, 1865, Lincoln MSS, LC.
480 "head of the Treasury Department": Hay, Diary, p. 101.
480 "spot he can find": Ibid., p. 110.
480 "upon the Government": Leon Burr Richardson, William E. Chandler: Republican (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940), pp. 4344; Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943), p. 235.
480 "kept my promise": Erwin S. Bradley, Simon Cameron: Lincoln's Secretary of War (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), pp. 237238; Hay, Diary, pp. 152153.
481 "not a party": Philadelphia Union League, Abraham Lincoln, [1864], pamphlet, Widener Library, Harvard University.
481 "his pre-eminent fitness": For this statement, and for other resolutions by Union Leagues, I am indebted to a careful memorandum prepared by Gerald Prokopowicz.
481 urging Lincoln's reelection: New England Loyal Publication Society, Broadside No. 158.
481 "spirit of the age": For the text of this pamphlet and astute commentary on the Chase campaign, see Charles R. Wilson, "The Original Chase Organization Meeting and The Next Presidential Election," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 23 (June 1936): 6179.
481 "and abusive pamphlet": Lamon to AL, Feb. 6,1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.
482 "had better quit": Wilson, "Original Chase Organization Meeting," pp. 6465.
482 "other available candidate": S. C. Pomeroy, printed circular letter, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., Feb. 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.
482 "your entire confidence": CW, 7:200201.
