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as the 1860 election neared: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 95–96.
dinner at Frank Blair’s home: Entry of April 27, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 11; Reinhard H. Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1944; Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1964), pp. 54–55.
Blair family details: See Elbert B. Smith, Francis Preston Blair (New York: Free Press/Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980), pp. 172–73; William Ernest Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933), pp. 185–88, 189–91; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 61–69, 388; Washington Post, September 14, 1906; Star, September 14, 1906; Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991), pp. 1, 2; William E. Parrish, Frank Blair: Lincoln’s Conservative (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, 1998). Francis P. Blair, owner, slave schedule for 5th District, Montgomery County, Maryland, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, reel 485), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group [RG] 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. [hereafter DNA]. Blair owned fifteen slaves in 1860.
had settled on the widely respected judge: Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 84–86, 91–92; Primm, Lion of the Valley, p. 230; Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 257; Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I, pp. 461–62.
“I feel…of character”: Entry of July 5, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 29–30.
“a mere seat…member”: EB to Julia Coalter Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“the mania…heretofore done”: FB, quoted in Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 81.
“My nomination…in vain”: Entry of January 9, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 89–90.
days were increasingly…first ballot victory: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 93, 94, 107.
“I have many strong…in New York, Pa.”: Entry of December 1, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 71–72.
pockets of opposition…German-Americans: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 103, 106.
“There is no question…conservative antecedents”: NYTrib, May 15, 1860.
Bates would triumph in Chicago: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 110.
“some of the most moderate and patriotic”: EB, Letter of Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, Indorsing Mr. Lincoln, and Giving His Reasons for Supporting the Chicago Nominees (Washington, D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1860).
“would tend to soften…in the border States”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 2: THE “LONGING TO RISE”
“We find ourselves…times tells us”: AL, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 108.
“When both the…universal feeling”: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper & Row, 1966; 1988), p. 629.
“any man’s son…any other man’s son”: Frances M. Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832; Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1969), p. 93.
thousands of young men to break away: Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 88.
the Louisiana Purchase: See Robert Wiebe, The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the Constitution to the Eve of Disunion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), pp. 131–32; “Louisiana Purchase,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), p. 682.
“Americans are always