Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [501]
the social gulf…discouraged: Elizabeth Goldsborough to Robert Warden, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 126; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 23, 40.
“thousands…universal scholar”: Alexander R. Chase to SPC, November 4, 1825, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“Day and night…my labours”: Entry for March 1, 1830, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 45.
“knowledge may yet…be mine”: Entry for January 13, 1829, ibid., p. 6.
“You will be…in that walk”: William Wirt to SPC, May 4, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“God [prospering]…your example”: SPC to William Wirt, June 16, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
self-designed course of preparation: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 23, 26.
“his voice deep…of my toils”: Entry for February 14, 1829, diary, reel 1, Papers of Salmon P. Chase, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Chase Papers, DLC].
“I feel humbled…of well-doing”: Entry for December 31, 1829, diary, reel 1, Chase Papers, LC.
Chase before the bar, 1829: William Cranch, quoted in Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 27.
“study another year”…sworn in at the bar: SPC, “Admission to the Bar,” June 30, 1853, reel 32, Chase Papers, DLC.
“I would rather…wherever I may be”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.
Cincinnati in 1830: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 13–16.
“was covered by the primeval forest”: SPC, “On the Dedication of a New State House, January 6, 1857,” reel 41, Chase Papers.
“a stranger and an adventurer”: Entry for September 1, 1830, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 53.
shyness, speech defect: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 31.
“I wish I was…provide the remedy”: William Wirt to SPC, May 4, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“awkward, fishy…little inconvenience”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“I made this resolution…excel in all things”: Entry for April 29, 1831, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 57.
“I was fully…a ‘crown of glory’”: Entry for March 1, 1830, ibid., p. 45.
founded a popular lecture series…berated himself: Entry for February 8, 1834, diary, reel 40, Chase Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 32, 34–38; Mary Merwin Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter: The Life Story of a Brilliant Woman and Her Famous Father (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1935), pp. 12, 35.
“I confess…terminate in this life”: Abigail Chase Colby to SPC, April 21, 1832, reel 4, Chase Papers.
death of Catherine Garniss Chase: Entries for November 21 and December 1, 1835, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 87, 92–93.
“so overwhelming…has been severed”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, April 6, 1836, reel 5, Chase Papers.
“Oh how I accused…tempted me away”: Entry for December 25, 1835, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 94.
“that death was within…left but clay”: Entry for December 1, 1835, ibid., pp. 93–94.
“the dreadful calamity…care for her”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, April 6, 1836, reel 5, Chase Papers.
doctors had bled her so profusely: Entry for December 26, 1835, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 96.
he delved into textbooks: Entry for December 28, 1835, ibid., p. 99.
“Oh if I had not…now she is gone”: Entry for December 27, 1835, ibid., pp. 97–98.
“the bar of God…an accusing spirit”: Entry for December 28, 1835, ibid., p. 99.
a “second conversion”: Stephen E. Maizlish, “Salmon P. Chase: The Roots of Ambition and the Origins of Reform,” Journal of the Early Republic 18 (Spring 1998), p. 62.
death of daughter Catherine: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 35; Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 286; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 72.
“one of the…desolation of my heart”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 7, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.
marriage to Eliza; birth of Kate: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 25–26; Warden, Private Life and Public Services, pp. 290–91, 295, 296, 301, 302.
“I feel as if…we are desolate”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, October 1, 1845, reel 6, Chase Papers.
Marriage to Belle; death of wife and daughter: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 74; Warden, Private Life and Public Services, pp.