Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [497]
recoiled from all games of chance: SPC to KCS, September 15, 1854, reel 10, Chase Papers; Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,” Atlantic Monthly, pp. 529, 531.
“he seldom…without spoiling it”: Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,” Atlantic Monthly, p. 536.
Kate’s education: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 15; Ross, Proud Kate, pp. 19–22, 34.
“In a few years…anything else”: SPC to KCS, December 20, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
absolutely essential: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 16, 18, 21–22; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 202–03.
“She did everything…another Mrs. Chase”: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 22.
Chase treated his…younger daughter: Peacock, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, p. 207.
Chase was actually more radical than Seward: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 423, 429.
“There may have been…ideas as he”: Ibid., p. 434.
“In the long run…than did Chase”: William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 192.
“A very large body…spontaneous growth”: SPC to Gamaliel Bailey, January 24, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“I arrived early…he should be President”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 169–72.
“desirable…our best men”: SPC to Robert Hosea, March 18, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“No man…more competent”: Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, March 12, 1860.
“steady devotion…beyond the State”: Ibid., May 21, 1860.
refused to engage in the practical methods: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 214–17; Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 428.
“if the most cherished…could prevail”: SPC to Edward S. Hamlin, June 12, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
“Now is the time…topmost wave”: Calvin Ellis Stowe to SPC, March 30, 1858, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“There is reason to hope”: SPC to James A Briggs, from Wheeling, Va., May 8, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Judge Edward Bates awaited: Marvin R. Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1965), p. 115.
Grape Hill: Entry of September 28, 1859, Orville H. Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. Vol. I: 1850–1864, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall. Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume XX (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925), p. 380; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 59.
general information on Bates family: Introduction, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. xv–xvi; Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1869.
The judge’s orderly life: EB to Julia Bates, January 1, 1835; January 5, 1828; November 7, 1827; Edward Bates Papers, 1778–1872, mss 1 B3184a, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va. [hereafter Bates Papers, ViHi]; entry for April 9, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 120 (quote).
description of St. Louis: “Lecture of Edward Bates,” St. Louis Weekly Reveille, February 24, 1845, typescript copy, St. Louis History Collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter MoSHi]; William C. Winter, The Civil War in St. Louis: A Guided Tour (St. Louis, Mo.: Missouri Historical Society, 1995), p. 3; James Neal Primm, Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764–1980, 3rd edn. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1998), pp. 192, 182 (quote).
“the quaintest looking…youth of twenty”: Alban Jasper Conant, “A Visit to Washington in 1861–62,” Metropolitan Magazine XXXIII (June 1910), p. 313.
descriptions of Bates: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 46–47; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 1, 64.
Lincoln noted the striking…“more than his head”: AL quoted in Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 46.
“unaffected by…little bonnet”: Conant, “A Visit to Washington in 1861–62,” Metropolitan Magazine, p. 313.
“How happy is my lot!…so freely gives”: Edward Bates diary, November 27, 1851, Edward Bates Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Bates diary].
“a very domestic, home, man”: Ibid., May 2, 1852.
speech at the River and Harbor Convention: