Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [502]
“What a vale…I rise & press on”: SPC to CS, January 28, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers (quote); Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 135.
“to go West and grow up with the country”: William F. Switzler, “Lincoln’s Attorney General: Edward Bates, One of Missouri’s Greatest Citizens—His Career as a Lawyer, Farmer and Statesman,” reprinted in Onward Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri (Chicago: P. F. Pettibone, 1914), p. 26.
His father, Thomas Fleming Bates: For general information on Bates’s family and early years, see Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 1–3, 5; “Bates, Edward,” DAB, Vol. I, p. 48; James M. McPherson, “Bates, Edward,” American National Biography, Vol. II, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 329; Introduction, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. xi; Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 22; “Death of Edward Bates,” Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1869; Elie Weeks, “Belmont,” Goochland County Historical Society Magazine 12 (1980), pp. 36–49; EB to C. I. Walker, February 10, 1859, reprinted in Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan Together with Reports of County Pioneer Societies, Vol. VIII, 2nd edn. (1886; Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1907), pp. 563–64.
“as distinctly…Western Europe”: Charles Gibson, The Autobiography of Charles Gibson, ed. E. R. Gibson, 1899, Charles Gibson Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gibson Papers, MoSHi].
English manorial life…monetary wealth: James Truslow Adams, America’s Tragedy (New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934), pp. 87–88.
“enjoyable living…and their manners”: Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 20.
The flintlock musket…“helped to win”: Ibid., p. 22.
lured by the vast potential…Louisiana Purchase: Wiebe, The Opening of American Society, pp. 131–32.
Over the next three decades: James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), p. 42.
“too young…a buffalo!”: “Lecture by Edward Bates,” St. Louis Weekly Reveille, February 24, 1845, St. Louis History Collection, MoSHi.
“After years of family…burned brightly in him”: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 5.
passed his bar examination…the rest of their family there: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817; October 13, 1817; June 15, 1818; July 19, 1818; Bates Papers, MoSHi; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 7.
“The slaves sold…at $290!”: EB to Frederick Bates, September 21, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
expected to realize…“full-handed”: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
death of his brother Tarleton…“by the delay”: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 6; EB to Frederick Bates, June 15, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi (quote).
“In those days…in the country”: Samuel T. Glover, “Addresses by the Members of the St. Louis Bar on the Death of Edward Bates,” Minutes of the St. Louis Bar Association (1869), Bates Papers, MoSHi.
“a lazy or squandering fellow”: EB to Frederick Bates, July 19, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
if accompanied only by his family: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
“in a tenth part of the time…my embarrassment”: EB to Frederick Bates, June 15, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
“Mother & Sister…occasioned you”: EB to Frederick Bates, July 19, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
“friend and benefactor…wealth & influence”: EB to Frederick Bates, October 13, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
introduced him to the leading figures: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 4.
a partnership with Joshua Barton: Ibid., p. 7.
“more in the way…his own name”: AL, “Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps,” [c. June 1860], in CW, IV, p. 61 [hereafter “Scripps autobiography”].
Thomas had watched: A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 95; Donald, Lincoln, p. 21.
“very narrow circumstances…without education”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in