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grades this reminiscence a D, but he doesn’t seem to take into account the fact that Honest Abe may simply have been dissembling.
    131 . Corwin,
The President
, p. 264 (blockade during recess); Lincoln, “Inscription in Album of Mary Rebecca Darby Smith,” Apr. 19, 1861,
CWL
, v. 4, p. 339.
    132 . My thanks to Howard Jones for walking me through the nuances of the neutrality decision. See also Edward Everett diary, Aug. 23, 1861, Everett Papers (“give them hell!” and “suggestions of Mr. Seward”); Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
, p. 21;
ALAL
, v. 2, pp. 160–62 (could buy weapons etc.); Carwardine,
Lincoln
, p. 181 (“caged tiger”); Conway,
Autobiography
, v. 1, p. 350 (“corvine”); Seward,
Seward at Washington
,
1846–1861
, p. 584 (“degree”); Lincoln, “Revision of William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams,” May. 21, 1861,
CWL
, v. 4, pp. 376–80 (Seward dispatch); Adams quoted in Ferris,
Desperate Diplomacy
, p. 51 (“shallow madness”).
    133 . Lincoln, “Revision of William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams,” May 21, 1861,
CWL
, v. 4, pp. 376–80; Donald, “We
Are Lincoln Men
,” p. 154.
    134 . Goodwin,
passim
; Donald, “
We Are Lincoln Men,”
p. 160.
    135 . Carpenter,
Inner Life
, pp. 128–29 (signed without reading); O. J. Hollister,
Life of Schuyler Colfax
(New York, 1886), p. 200 (“Uncle Abe’s nose”); Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln: A History
, v. 6, p. 265 (“unperceived”); Eaton,
Grant
,
Lincoln and the Freedmen
, p. 178 (“I am his master”);
ALAL
, v. 2, p. 456.
    136 . Bancroft, v. 2, pp. 173–74.
    137 . D. P. Crook notes that both Lincoln and Seward shared “the mediating approach of the old Whig party” on slavery. The same is largely true of their foreign policy strategies, with the exceptions outlined above. (Crook,
Diplomacy During the American Civil War
, p. 18.) Howard Jones notes that “even though their styles were as different as night and day, they worked in close harmony” after April 1, 1861. (Jones,
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
, p. 38.)
    138 . Seward dispatch cited in Ferris,
Desperate Diplomacy
, p. 14.
    139 . Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
, p. 25 (“mild and gentle”); Seward to his wife, June 5, 1861,
Seward at Washington
,
1846–1861
, p. 590 (“cooperation”).
    140 . Cortada, “A Case of International Rivalry,” pp. 66–76, esp. 66, 68 (annexation date), 73 (revolts), 76 (Lincoln’s response); Welles,
Lincoln and Seward
, pp. 183–84. See also Mahin, p. 204. In practice, it should be noted, European powers often challenged the principles of the Monroe Doctrine during the mid-nineteenth century, and it was not until long after the Civil War that the doctrine achieved its modern-day stature. My thanks to George C. Herring for emphasizing this point.
    141 . Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln: A History
, v. 3, p. 379 (“virtue of patience”).
    142 . Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” pp. 61–63; Charles Sumner to James A. Hamilton, June 8, 1861, in Hamilton,
Reminiscences
, p. 483;
RW
, p. 433 (“all things right”).
    143 . Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864, CWL, v. 7, p. 281.
    144 . On Lincoln and presidential “war power,” see McPherson,
Tried by War
, pp. 23–25, 30 (incl. quote to Hodges); Rossiter,
American Presidency
, pp. 98–99; Schlesinger, Jr.,
Imperial Presidency
, pp. 58–64; and Corwin,
The President
, pp. 264–267 (expanding the navy and “significant precedents”).
    145 . McDougall,
Throes of Democracy
, pp. 251–52, 350–53; and Remini,
Henry Clay
, pp. 137, 643 (Whigs and navy); Henderson,
Hidden Coasts
, p. 238.
    C HAPTER T HREE: L INCOLN VS . P ALMERSTON
    1 . Pease and Randall, eds.,
Diary of Orville Hickman Browning
, v. 1, pp. 488–89 (entry for July 28, 1861); McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom
, p. 347 (casualties); Russell,
My Diary North and South
, p. 467, entry for July 22, 1861 (weather); Robert L. Wilson to Herndon, Feb. 10, 1866, in
HI
, p. 207