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25 “some ill-bred neighbor”: Conkling, The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, 44.
26 “his haughty disdain”: Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 91.
27 Even Garfield, who admired Blaine: After watching Blaine unashamedly try to prevent the publication of an article on black suffrage that Garfield had written because it would outshine Blaine’s own work, Garfield noted with astonishment, “It is apparent to me that Blaine cares more about the glory … than having the cause of negro enfranchisement defended.” Peskin, Garfield, 435.
28 “cool, calm, and after his usual fashion”: “The Struggle at Chicago,” New York Times, June 4, 1880.
29 “serene as the June sun”: “The Convention and Its Work,” New York Times, June 3, 1880.
30 “I shall never cease to regret”: “The Evening Session,” New York Times, June 6, 1880; Peskin, Garfield, 467.
31 “folded his arms across”: “The Evening Session,” New York Times, June 6, 1880; Peskin, Garfield, 467.
32 “New York is for Ulysses S. Grant”: “The Evening Session,” New York Times, June 6, 1880.
33 “New York requests that Ohio’s real candidate”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 84.
34 “Conkling’s speech”: Garfield to Lucretia Garfield, June 6, 1880, in Shaw, Crete and James, 376.
35 “I have witnessed the extraordinary”: “Nomination of John Sherman,” James A. Garfield Papers, Library of Congress; Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, 393–95.
36 “And now, gentlemen of the Convention”: “Nomination of John Sherman,” James A. Garfield Papers, Library of Congress.
37 “I presume I feel very much as you feel”: Conkling, The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, 604.
38 The convention chairman: Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, 395.
39 “The chair,” wrote one reporter: “The Evening Session,” New York Times, June 6, 1880.
40 “Never”: “Two Remarks of Garfield’s,” New York Times, July 10, 1881.
41 “General,” he said, “they are talking”: Peskin, Garfield, 472.
42 The balloting began at ten: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
43 Grant, as had been expected: “The Twenty-Eight Ballots,” New York Times, June 8, 1880.
44 “By high noon”: “The Excitement in this City,” New York Times, June 8, 1880.
45 “elbow [his] way through”: “Fight it Out!” Boston Globe, June 8, 1880.
46 On the thirty-fourth ballot: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
47 “Mr. President”: Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, 397.
48 “No, no, gentlemen”: “Gen. Garfield’s Nomination,” New York Times, June 15, 1880.
49 “No candidate has a majority”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
50 “If this convention nominates me”: Peskin, Garfield, 476.
51 “And then,” a reporter wrote with awe, “then the stampede came”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
52 “Whenever the vote of Ohio”: Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet, 775.
53 “Cast my vote for Sherman!”: Peskin, Garfield, 476.
54 “Shall the nomination”: “Roscoe Conkling, Political Boss,” New York Times, April 14, 1935.
55 “The delegates and others on the floor”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
56 “Only once,” a reporter recalled, “did he express”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880; “U.S.G.’s Waterloo,” Boston Globe, June 9, 1880.
57 “As Garfield entered the carriage”: “Gen. Garfield’s Nomination,” New York Times, June 15, 1880.
58 “grave and thoughtful expression”: Ibid.
59 When the carriage pulled: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 8, 1880.
60 “pale as death”: “Gen. Garfield’s Wife Notified,” New York Times, June 13, 1880.
Chapter 4: God’s Minute Man
1 From an early age: United States v. Guiteau, 348, 354, 419.
2 “My mother was dead”: Ibid., p. 547
3 Charles’s own fanaticism grew: Carden, Oneida, xiii.
4 Like most of Noyes’s followers: Ibid., 43.
5 “unhealthy and pernicious”: Ibid., 49–54.
6 “up to the very moment”: Ibid., 49–50.
7 “You prayed God”: Guiteau to J. H. Noyes, no date, Library of the New York City Bar.
8 “I ask no one to respect me”: Guiteau to