Annotation
[1] Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States . . . (1865), p. 471. Although McPherson's source seems to have been a newspaper report, no contemporary source of Lincoln's reply has been located. McPherson gives no date for the reply, and Nicolay and Hay supply ``May [30?]'' in error (NH, VIII, 287). The Washington Evening Star, June 2, 1863, and a Washington despatch of June 2 (New York Tribune, June 3) both reported that ``A Committee of sixty-five from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church . . . waited upon the President this morning, and presented him with the resolutions of that body.'' Resolutions in support of the administration, adopted by the General Assembly on May 27, were read to the president by John A. Foote of Cleveland, Ohio, and were followed by Lincoln's reply. A copy of the lengthy resolutions clipped from a newspaper and provided with a holograph heading, is preserved in the Lincoln Papers.