[893] Raymond, State Papers of Lincoln, p. 253.
[894] Ibid., p. 256.
[895] Rhodes, IV, p. 162.
[896] Lincoln's Complete Works, II, p. 454. But the after-comment by Lincoln as to purpose was nearly always in line with an unfinished draft of a letter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864, when the specific object was said to be "inducing the coloured people to come bodily over from the rebel side to ours." Ibid., p. 564.
[897] See ante, Ch. IX.
[898] U.S. Messages and Documents, 1862-3, Pt. I, p. 83. Adams to Seward, May 8, 1862.
[899] Ibid., pp. 101-105.
[900] Ibid., p. 122. Adams to Seward, July 3, 1862. In his despatch Adams states the conversation to have occurred "last Saturday," and with an "unofficial person," who was sounding him on mediation. This was Cobden.
[901] Welles, Diary, I, p. 70.
[902] U.S. Messages and Documents, 1862-3, Pt. I, p. 135.