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Michael Burlingame presents anonymous and pseudonymous newspaper articles written by Lincolns assistant personal secretary, John Hay, between 1860 and 1864. In the White House, Hay became the ultimate insider, the man who had the presidents ear. Only an extremely small number of persons ever saw Abraham Lincoln both day and night in public as well as private settings from 1860 to 1864, notes Wayne C. Temple, chief deputy director, Illinois State Archives. And only one of them had the literary flair of John Milton Hay.Burlingame takes great pains to establish authorship of the items reproduced here. He convincingly demonstrates that the essays and letters written for the Providence Journal, the Springfield Illinois State Journal, and the St. Louis Missouri Democrat under the pseudonym Ecarte are the work of Hay. And he finds much circumstantial and stylistic evidence that Hay wrote as our special correspondent for the Washington World and for the St. Louis Missouri Republican. Easily identifiable, Hays style was marked by long sentences, baroque syntactical architecture, immense vocabulary, verbal pyrotechnics, cocksure tone (combining acid contempt and extravagant praise), offbeat adverbs, and scornful adjectives. (20080923)

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title	:	Lincoln's Journalist : John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864
author	:	Hay, John.; Burlingame, Michael
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0809322056
print isbn13	:	9780809322053
ebook isbn13	:	9780585112886
language	:	English
subject	Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	E457.H39 1998eb
ddc	:	973.7/092
subject	:	Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.

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Lincoln's Journalist

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Lincoln's Journalist

John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864

Edited by
Michael Burlingame

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Carbondale and Edwardsville

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Copyright 1998 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America

01 00 99 98 4 3 2 1

Frontispiece: Photograph of John Hay, 1861, by Albert Bierstadt,
signed by Hay, courtesy of Brown University Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hay, John, 1838-1905.
Lincoln's journalist : John Hay's anonymous writings for the press,
1860-1864 / edited by Michael Burlingame.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. 2. United States
HistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Sources.
I. Burlingame, Michael, 1941- .
II. Title.
E457.H39 1998
973.7092dc21 98-6013
ISBN 0-8093-2205-6 (alk. paper) CIP

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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For David Herbert Donald,
mentor extraordinaire

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1
1860

2
1861

3
1862

187

4
1863-1864

331

Notes

341

Index

377

Page ix

Acknowledgments

One day in 1992 while I was working at the John Hay Library at Brown University, Jennifer Lee, curator of the Lincoln Collection, suggested that I might like to examine a scrapbook in which Hay had pasted some of his own writings. Without her prompting, I would doubtless have ignored that valuable source and its counterparts in the Hay Papers at the Library of Congress, and this volume would never have come to be. To Ms. Lee, now head of the manuscripts department at the New York Public Library, I extend heartfelt thanks. Among the other librarians at Brown who have been especially helpful and cordial over the years are Samuel Streit, Jean Rainwater, Pat Sirois, Mary Jo Kline, and Andrew Moul.

I also owe a debt of gratitude to Robert Hoffman of Rochester, New York, who kindly let me examine and quote from one of Hay's scrapbooks that he owns. His friend Joseph Buberger was most helpful in expediting the copying of the scrapbook.

John Y. Simon, the dean of documentary editors in American history, has supported me unstintingly as I labored over the manuscript of this and other Lincoln-related volumes. His friendship, encouragement, and guidance are deeply appreciated.

While spending endless weeks at the Library of Congress on this and related projects, I was the beneficiary of the generous hospitality of my sister and brother-in-law, Sue and Edwin Coover, which extended far above and beyond the call of family duty.

Thomas F. Schwartz, the Illinois state historian, and Wayne C. Temple, the chief deputy director of the Illinois State Archives, kindly agreed to read the manuscript and give me the benefit of their extensive knowledge of Lincoln and his times. Connecticut College's R. Francis Johnson Faculty Development Fund helped defray some of the expenses incurred in researching and editing this volume. Regina B. Foster and Anita L. Allen have cheerfully and efficiently helped type the manuscript.

As the dedication indicates, I owe a great deal to David Herbert Donald, under whom I studied at Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities.

Lois McDonald deserves more credit than I can express for making it possible for me to edit this volume.

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Introduction

This volume complements John Hay's civil war diary, an invaluable document despite its many gaps.1 To help caulk some of those gaps, Hay's anonymous and pseudonymous journalism written between 1860 and 1864 is collected here. These dispatches and editorials shed both direct and indirect light on Abraham Lincoln. Not only does Hay quote the president and describe his activities but he also offers opinions that may reflect Lincoln's views. Referring to writings by both of Lincoln's personal secretaries, one scholar observed: "Hay and [John G.] Nicolay seem generally to have adopted Lincoln's opinions as their own; and it maybe surmised that the observations in their Letters, Diary, and Notes, were not far out of line with what Lincoln thought at the time, even when they do not quote him directly."2 The historian and journalist Walter B. Stevens maintained that Hay's 1860 and 1861 Springfield dispatches to the

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