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521 presidential election: See the excellent account of the Confederate mission in Larry E. Nelson, Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864 (University: University of Alabama Press, 1980).
522 only Seward: Fessenden, who interrupted a conversation between Lincoln and Seward, also knew of the negotiations.
522 "struggled for": CW, 8:12.
523 "we will have": Edmund Kirke [James R. Gilmore], "Our Visit to Richmond," Atlantic Monthly 14 (Sept. 1864): 379.
523 "coming Presidential campaign": New York Herald, July 26, 1864.
523 "black race": New York World, July 22 and 24, 1864.
524 "earnest men": S. P. Chase to William C. Noyes, July 11, 1864, Chase MSS.
524 "carry it out": William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1888), p. 195.
524 "Father Abraham": Unidentified clipping, enclosed in Thurlow Weed to W. H. Seward, Aug. 10, 1864, Seward MSS, UR.
524 "continuing it": James W. Grimes to C. H. Ray, Aug. 3, 1864, Ray MSS, HEH.
524 "make the laws": New York Tribune, Aug. 5, 1864.
524 "daze the President": New York World, Aug. 9, 1864.
524 "he was exalted": New York Herald, Aug. 6, 1864.
524 "befall a man": Noah Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton in Lincoln's Time (New York: Century Co., 1896), p. 170.
525 "'if they can'": Carpenter, Six Months, p. 145.
525 "patriotic men": S. P. Chase to George Opd.y.k.e, Aug. 19, 1864, Chase MSS.
525 "the true outlines": Charles Sumner to Francis Lieber, Aug. 19, 1864, Sumner MSS, Houghton Library, Harvard University. The expression "blue lights" dates from the War of 1812, when it was claimed that disloyal New England Federalists used blue lights to warn British s.h.i.+ps of nearby American frigates.
525 "unofficial governors": Strong, Diary, p. 473.
525 "if necessary": Henry Greenleaf Pearson, The Life of John A. Andrew (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin &Co., 1904), 2:159.
525 "new candidates": Henry Winter Davis to Zachariah Chandler, Aug. 24, 1864, Chandler MSS, LC.
526 "closed out the rebellion": John Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907), pp. 186191.
526 "to stand upon": CW, 7:501.
526 "let him try me": Ibid., 7:499501.
526 "both these conditions": New York Times, Aug. 18,1864.
527 "come what will": CW, 7:506507.
