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.Fuller, in Journal of the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of Illinois (Springfield, IL, 1865), 728; WilliamB.Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors (New York, 1948), 318;  Speech ofRichard Yates, Illinois State Journal, July 13, 1863.14.Politician-general John A.McClernand reported to Lincoln on a Democrat-ic meeting in Chatham, Illinois, where  a number hurrahed for John Morgan thesame Morgan who is now burning the houses and wasting the fields of peacefulcitizens in the loyal state of Ohio. Judging by that meeting, McClernand wasalarmed that  a bold demagogue, or a reckless inebriate, in my opinion, has it inhis power to precipitate fearful strife and great bloodshed in Illinois.McClernandto Lincoln, July 23, 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.15. The Meeting Yesterday, Illinois State Register, June 18, 1863; History ofSangamon County, Illinois (Chicago, 1881), 315.16. Enthusiastic Union Meeting in Macon County, Illinois State Journal, July25, 1863;  Grand Union Meeting, Illinois State Journal, August 10, 1863;  GrandUnion Demonstration, Illinois State Journal, July 9, 1863;  State Union MassConvention, Illinois State Journal, August 8, 1863.17.Frederick B.Crossley, Courts and Lawyers of Illinois (Chicago, 1916), 191 92;The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-defending emancipation 177Made Men: Illinois Volume (Chicago, 1876), 159 60; Joseph Wallace, Past and Pres-ent of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County (Chicago, 1904), 54 55; VictorB.Howard,  The Illinois Republican Party, Journal of the Illinois State HistoricalSociety 64 (Autumn 1971): 303; Wayne C.Temple,  Delegates to the Illinois StateRepublican Nominating Convention in 1860, Journal of the Illinois State HistoricalSociety 92 (Autumn 1999): 296; James C.Conkling to George Bancroft, February19, 1866, and to Robert Hall, July 31, 1862, Conkling Papers, ALPLM; Lincoln,  ToEdwin M.Stanton, February 3, 1863, and  To Montgomery C.Meigs, January31, 1863, in Collected Works, 6:85, 90.18. The Great Union Mass Meeting, Illinois State Journal, August 13, 1863; Preparing for the Great Mass Meeting, Illinois State Journal, August 25, 1863.19.James C.Conkling to Lincoln, August 14, 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers,Library of Congress.See also Dear Mr.Lincoln: Letters to the President, ed.HaroldHolzer (Reading, MA, 1993), 281; Conkling to George Bancroft, February 19, 1866,Conkling Papers, ALPLM.20.Lincoln,  To James C.Conkling, August 20, 1863, in Collected Works,6:399;  President Lincoln Will Probably Be Here, Illinois State Journal, August21, 1863;  The Great Meeting in Illinois: The President Expected, WashingtonNational Republican, August 22, 1863.The possibility of Lincoln absenting himselffrom Washington in the late summer of 1863 seems to have had general currency,since New Hampshire governor Joseph Gilmore had written him on August 4, I see from the public prints that you are intending to spend a few weeks amongthe Mountains of New Hampshire.May we not have the privilege of welcomingyou to our state capital? But it was actually Mary Lincoln, not her husband, whowas planning a New Hampshire summer vacation.Gilmore to Lincoln, August4, 1863, James C.Conkling to Lincoln, August 21, 1863, and Herndon to Lincoln,August 26, 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.21.John Hay, diary entry for August 23, 1863, in Inside Lincoln s White House:The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, ed.Michael Burlingame and J.R.T.Ettlinger (Carbondale, IL, 1997), 76; Lincoln,  To James C.Conkling, August 27,1863, in Collected Works, 6:414 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]