[235]. Ann. Cycl., 1861, p. 646.

[236]. First Annual Message, December 3, 1861. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 134; Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. pp. 102–103.

[237]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 249.

[238]. Letters and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 91.

[239]. See “Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware, At a Special Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and held at Dover, on Monday, the 25th day of November, 1861.”

[240]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 250.

[241]. Ibid., p. 248.

[242]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 250.

[243]. Ibid.

[244]. Ibid., p. 251.