FOOTNOTES:
[1] Abraham Lincoln said of this law: “I look upon that enactment not as a law, but as a violence from the beginning. It was conceived in violence and is being executed in violence” (letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855).
[2] From The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe. Dana, Estes & Co.
[3] “Chev” was the abbreviation of Chevalier, a title bestowed on him for his services in the Greek Revolution. He was called “Chev” by certain intimate friends.
[4] The Kansas and Nebraska bill.
[5] Protesting against the Missouri Compromise.
[6] From Reminiscences by Julia Ward Howe. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
[7] Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Struggle. By Julia Ward Howe.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Letter from Dr. S. G. Howe to Charles Sumner.
[10] Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe. Dana, Estes & Co.
[11] History declares that a colleague of Brooks did thus stand, to prevent any one’s coming to Sumner’s assistance. About the pistols, I am not sure.
[12] Sketch of John Albion Andrew by Eben F. Stone.
[13] Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Struggle. By Julia Ward Howe.
[14] Reminiscences by Julia Ward Howe.
[15] Ibid.
[16] Ibid.
[17] From Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe. Dana, Estes & Co.
[18] Reminiscences.
[19] Ibid.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Ibid.
[22] See Chap. ii, page 33.
[23] Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Struggle.
[24] Reminiscences, 1899.
[25] In the reprint of the “Battle Hymn,” made in England for the use of the soldiers during the present war, this discarded verse has, through some misunderstanding, been included.
[26] See Julia Ward Howe, Vol. II, Chap. xi.
[27] This account of the day in Libby Prison is compiled from the Washington Star and from the Life of Chaplain McCabe.
[28] Life of Chaplain McCabe.
[29] Ibid.
[30] Reminiscences by Julia Ward Howe.
[31] Julia Ward Howe. By Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott.
[32] Life of Julia Ward Howe.
[33] See Chapter IX.
[34] In the later editions of the novel another scene is substituted for this.
[35] Life of Chaplain McCabe—“the singing chaplain.”
[36] Julia Ward Howe. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
[37] Mr. Howells writes in his Literary Boston Thirty Years Ago: “I heard Mrs. Howe speak in public and it seemed to me that she made one of the best speeches I had ever heard.”
[38] Reminiscences, p. 261.
[39] Ibid., p. 258.
[40] Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr., who died in May, 1863, aged three and a half years.
[41] George Fox Digged Out of His Burrowe.
[42] “Proposalls”—I here quote Roger Williams’ spelling.
[43] William Cullen Bryant’s “The Song of Marion’s Men.”