[274]. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 213.

[275]. Carpenter’s Six Months at the White House, pp. 21–22.

[276]. Letters and State Papers of Lincoln, Vol. II. p. 214.

[277]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., pp. 231–232.

[278]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 233.

[279]. Quoted in Schuckers’ Life of Chase, pp. 453–455.

[280]. The Galaxy, December, 1872, pp. 846–847.

[281]. Ibid., p. 847.

[282]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 106.

[283]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 129.