Former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) confers with President again this morning, probably on behalf of Gen. McClellan. Second Series, 14 March 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln demonstrates statistically to Sen. James A. McDougall (Calif.) that gradual compensated emancipation can be accomplished in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri for a sum equivalent to cost of 87 days of war. Abraham Lincoln to James A. McDougall, 14 March 1862, CW, 5:160-61.

Sends for Asst. Sec. Fox and wants him to go to New York tonight. Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Transmits to Congress correspondence concerning case of Danish barque "Jorgen Lorentzen," with recommendation that award of referees be paid. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives, [14] March 1862, CW, 5:162.