[4] Lincoln’s plan. See letter of March 13, 1864, to Hahn, Nicolay-Hay, VIII., 434.
[5] Rhodes and Ficklen differ slightly in their numbers. Rhodes depends upon Sen. Exe. Doc., 38 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 91, 4.
[6] Within the Union lines was about one-third the area of the State, according to the census of 1860, and two-thirds of the population.
[7] Already Thaddeus Stevens had devised and won followers for his territorial scheme of reconstruction. For a full statement see Rhodes, United States, V., 551.
[8] Ficklen regards this story as well-substantiated (113), though Warmoth himself stated that he received the money to defray his expenses from the Executive Committee. House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 350. The writer has not regarded this as within her investigation.
[9] Debates of the Convention, 1864, 623. Illegal also was the effort of the mayor to suppress the convention. See Cox, Three Decades, 430-2.
[10] Blaine regarded this as the “original mistake” of the South. Suffrage would have then followed as a necessity and boon to the South. Blaine, Twenty Years, II., 474-5.
[11] The Congressional Committee reported the plan as early as April 30, 1866. Globe, 39 Cong., 1 Sess., 2286.
[12] Statutes at Large, XIV., 428. The essential sections, 3 and 4, were later held unconstitutional. Cases of U. S. vs. Reese, 92 U. S., 214, and U. S. vs. Cruikshank, 92 U. S., 554.
[13] United States Statutes at Large, XV., 2.