Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [494]
“moving heaven & Earth”: David Davis and Jesse K. Dubois to AL, May 15, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“a big brain and a big heart”: Mrs. John A. Logan, quoted by Allan Nevins in foreword to Willard L. King, Lincoln’s Manager: David Davis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960), p. xi.
Norman Judd: Ibid., pp. 128–29.
he knew Lincoln “as intimately”: Leonard Swett, quoted in Osborn H. Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, or The Political Revolution of 1860 (Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1896), p. 70.
the “circuit”: Henry Clay Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, introduction and notes by Paul M. Angle (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxon Printers, 1940), pp. 61–88; see “Travelling on the Circuit,” chapter 15 in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I (New York: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), pp. 241–56.
Lincoln…the center of attention: Henry C. Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen. Vol. I of A Life of Lincoln (1892; New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1908), pp. 190–91; William H. Herndon, A Letter from William H. Herndon to Isaac N. Arnold Relating to Abraham Lincoln, His Wife, and Their Life in Springfield (privately printed, 1937).
crowds of villagers: Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1886; Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), p. 158.
emboldened his quest for office: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 106.
“broke down…mutual trust”: Robert H. Wiebe, “Lincoln’s Fraternal Democracy,” in John L. Thomas, ed., Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986), p. 19.
disparate elements of…Republican Party: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Old Northwest. Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. VI (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897; New York: Russell & Russell, 1967), p. 1; William Lee Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 317.
“Of strange, discordant… fought the battle through”: AL, “A House Divided”: Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, p. 468.
when speech-making prowess: Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow / Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 36.
“from sun-up til sun-down”: Christine Ann Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law: Law Students, Legal Education and the Occupational Culture of Attorneys, 1820–1860.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1996, p. 165.
attendance at Cooper Union speech: Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 202.
“one of the happiest…New York audience”: NYTrib, February 28, 1860.
state convention at Decatur: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 11, 1860; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962), p. 148.
“the Rail Candidate for President”: NYH, May 24, 1860.
“with no clogs…rights of the South”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 15, 1860. The Press and Tribune became the Tribune on October 25, 1860.
“new in the field…very great many”: AL to Sam Galloway, March 24, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 34.
“in a mood to come…their first love”: Ibid.
“We are laboring…for any result”: Nathan M. Knapp to AL, May 14, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“Am very hopeful…be Excited”: David Davis to AL, May 17, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln stretched…“and practice law”: Conkling, “How Mr. Lincoln Received the News,” Transactions (1909), pp. 64–65.
Seward typically rose: Frederick W. Seward, William H. Seward: An Autobiography from 1801 to 1834, with a Memoir of His Life, and Selections from His Letters, 1831–1846 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1877), p. 658 [hereafter Seward, An Autobiography]; Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State. A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 1846–1861 (New York: Derby & Miller,