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Now, Creswell, you are trying to leave me in the same predicament. You fellows are all getting your own friends out of this scrape; and you will succeed in carrying off one after another, until nobody but Jeff Davis and myself will be left on the island, and then I won't know what to do. How should I feel? How should I look, lugging him over?

I guess the way to avoid such an embarrassing situation is to let them all out at once.*

14th. (To the Cabinet.) I hope there will be no persecution, no bloody work after the war is over. None need expect me to take any part in hanging or killing them. Frighten them out of the country, let down the bars, scare them off. Enough lives have been sacrificed. We must extinguish our resentment if we expect harmony and union. There is too much desire on the part of our very good friends to be masters, to interfere with and dictate to those states, to treat the people not as fellow citizens; there is too little respect for the right. I don't sympathize with those feelings.

(Addressing Secretary Welles while recounting a strange dream he had had the night before.) It was in your department. It related to the water. I seemed to be in a singular and indescribable vessel that was moving with great rapidity toward a dark and indefinite shore. I had this same dream preceding the firing on Sumter, the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Stone River, Vicksburg, Wilmington and others. Though victory has not always followed it, some important event has. I have no doubt, this time, that a battle has taken place or is about to be fought and that Johnson will be beaten. My dream must relate to Sherman. My thoughts are in that direction and I know of no other very important event which is very likely just now to occur.

*Date conjectural.

(To Charles A. Dana, who reports that Jacob Thompson, Confederate secret agent, is known to be in Portland.) What does Stanton say?

(Dana: Arrest him.)

Well, I rather guess not. When you have an elephant on hand and he wants to run away, better let him run.

(To Lamon, who has asked him to sign a pardon.) Do you know how the Patagonians eat oysters?

(No, I do not, Mr. Lincoln.)

It is their habit to open them as fast as they can and throw the shells out of the window, and when the pile of shells grows to be higher than the house, why, they pick up stakes and move. Now, Lamon, I felt like beginning a new pile of pardons, and I guess this is a good one to begin on.

(While driving with Mrs. Lincoln.) We have had a hard time since we came to Washington, but the war is over, and with God's blessings, we may hope for four years of peace and happiness, and then we will go back to Illinois and pass the rest of our lives in quiet. We have laid by some money, and during this time, we will save up more, but shall not have enough to support us. We will go back to Illinois. I will open a law office at Springfield or Chicago and practise law, and at least do enough to help give us a livelihood.

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(To General Van Alen.) I intend to adopt the advice of my friends and use due precaution. I thank you for the assurance you give me that I shall be supported by conservative men like yourself, in the efforts I may make to restore the Union, so as to make it, to use your language, a Union of hearts and hands as well as of States.

Assassinated.

15th. Death of Lincoln.

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TABLE OF SOURCES

Key to Abbreviations Used

Paragraph numbers refer to quoted matter only. editorial comment are not included in the numbering.

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CARPENTER: Six Months in the White House, by F. B. Carpenter, 1866. Hurd and Houghton, New York.

C. C. W.: Report of Committee on Conduct of War. (S. N.-serial number; Supp.-Supplement.)

CENTURY: The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by John

G. Nicolay and John Hay, 1886. The Century Company, New York. CRAWFORD: The Genesis of the Civil War, by Samuel Wylie Crawford, 1887. Charles L. Webster & Company, New York. CROSBY: Life of Abraham Lincoln, by F. Crosby, 1865. J. A. Potter, Philadelphia.

CURTIS: The True Abraham Lincoln, by William Eleroy Curtis, 1902. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.

GODWIN: A Biography of William Cullen Bryant with Extracts from His Private Correspondence, by Parke Godwin, 1883. D. Appleton & Company, New York.

GORHAM: Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, by George C.
Gorham, 1899. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
The True Story of a Great Life, by

H. & W.: Abraham Lincoln:

William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, 1892. D. Appleton &
Company, New York.

HAY MS.: Diary of John Hay. Photostat copies in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, accessible only by special permission.

LAMON: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Ward H. Lamon, 1872. James R. Osgood & Company, Boston.

McC. REPT.: Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, by George B. McClellan, 1864. Sheldon and Company, New York.

M. M.: The Martyr's Monument, Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Exhibited in His Speeches, Orders and Proclamations from the Presidential Canvass of 1860 until His Assassination, April 14, 1865. 1865. The American News Company, New York.

N. R.: Naval Records of the War of the Rebellion.

O. R.: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.
PA.

HIS. SOC: Administrations. Pennsylvania Historical Society.
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POL. D.: Political Debates between Honorable Abraham Lincoln and
Honorable Stephen A. Douglas, 1860. Follett, Foster and Co.,
Columbus, Ohio.

PUTNAM: The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by George
Haven Putnam and Doctor Arthur Brooks Lapsley, 1888-1906.
R. R.: Rebellion Record, edited by Frank Moore, 1861-1868.
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G. P.

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