[About Abraham Lincoln 1 month after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect]
Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana, after a visit to Washington in February 1863, reported to Charles Francis Adams:
"As to the politics of Washington, the most striking thing is the absence of personal loyalty to the President. It does not exist. He has no admirers, no enthusiastic supporters, none to bet on his head. If a Republican convention were to be held to-morrow, he would not get the vote of a State."