ion;
renews proposals for compensated emancipation;
favors it as a peaceful measure;
his argument;
fails to persuade Missouri to accept plan;
issues definite proclamation;
his remark on signing;
tries to stimulate enlistment of blacks;
threatens retaliation for Southern excesses;
shows signs of care and fatigue;
never asks for sympathy;
slow to displace McClellan until sure of a better man;
doubtful as to Burnside's plan of attack;
refuses to accept Burnside's resignation after Fredericksburg;
declines to ratify Burnside's dismissals;
his letter to Hooker;
suggestions to Hooker after Chancellorsville;
opposes plan to dash at Richmond;
directs Hooker to obey Halleck;
appoints Meade to succeed Hooker;
urges Meade to attack Lee after Gettysburg;
angry at Meade's failure;
his letter to Meade;
annoyed by Democratic proposals for peace;
refuses to receive Stephens.;
annoyed by inaction of Rosecrans;
urged to remove Grant;
refuses to disturb him;
his letter to Grant after Vicksburg;
wishes Rosecrans to unite with Burnside;
tries to encourage Rosecrans after Chickamauga;
sends aid to Rosecrans;
replaces him by Thomas and puts Grant in command in West;
wishes Meade to attack in Virginia;
refuses to interfere in finances;
his attitude in Alabama affair;
refuses foreign arbitration;
asked by radicals to dismiss Seward;
secures resignations of Chase and Seward, and then urges them to
resume duties;
his wisdom in avoiding a rupture;
asks opinion of cabinet on admission of West Virginia;
his reasons for signing bill;
not alarmed by Copperhead societies;
his relation to Vallandigham case;
supports Burnside;
sends Vallandigham within Confederate lines;
replies to addresses condemning martial law;
obliged to begin draft;
insists upon its execution;
his letter to Illinois Union Convention;
shows necessity of war;
impossibility of compromise;
justifies emancipation;
points to successes;
really controls government autocratically;
able to, because supported by people;
gains military experience;
has measure of generals;
henceforward supervises rather than specifically orders;
begged by Chandler to disregard conservatives;
prepares address for Gettysburg;
the address;
his theory of "reconstruction";
recognizes a state government of Virginia;
appoints military governors for conquered