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the “preoccupation…the nineteenth”: Donald Yacovone, “Abolitionists and the ‘Language of Fraternal Love,’” in Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America, ed. Mark C. Carnes and Clyde Griffen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 94.
CHAPTER 3: THE LURE OF POLITICS
“Scarcely have you…as to an assembly”: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. and trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 232.
Noah Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book: Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law,” pp. 175–76.
“Who can wonder…hush before his”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Eloquence,” in The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and Solitude, Vol. VI, Fireside Edition (Boston and New York: n.p., 1870; 1898), p. 65.
Bates was the first…“form of government”: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 8–9, 11 (quotes pp. 9, 11); Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 247.
“This momentous question…of the Union”: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. XII, Federal Edition, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1905), p. 158.
Missouri Compromise: “Missouri Compromise,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 737.
“Great Pacificator”: Stephen Douglas, quoted by AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, Il, p. 251.
“emerged as one”…candidates for state offices: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 14–15 (quote p. 14).
tensions developed between Senators Barton and Benton: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 19–22.
The Whigs favored public support: See Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 27, 64, 66–70.
“a most beautiful woman”: John F. Darby, “Mrs. Julia Bates, Widow of the Late Ed. Bates, Esq. For the Republican,” reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 31.
Julia’s South Carolina family: Ibid., pp. 31–32.
Her surviving letters: Julia Davenport Bates to Caroline Hatcher Bates, April 10, 1850; Julia Davenport Bates to Onward Bates, July 24, 1855, February 14, 1861, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
“was calculated…domestic circle”: Darby, “Mrs. Julia Bates,” reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 31.
When he sought and won a seat: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 26–27.
“I have never…to have it again”: EB to Julia Bates, April 11, 1825, Bates Papers, ViHi.
Bates’s lonely journey to Washington: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“something of a melancholy…mood”: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“magic…feel it to be true”: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
life in Washington: EB to Julia Bates, January 5 and 22, February 25, March 17, 1828, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“That man grows…associate with him”: EB to Julia Bates, February 25, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.
The main issues that confronted Bates: EB to Julia Bates, March 17, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 28–32.
Benton and Barton were antagonists: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 28–29.
Bates published a pamphlet: EB, Edward Bates Against Thomas H. Benton (St. Louis: Charless & Paschall, 1828).
“My piece is…never be effaced”: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“roaring disorder…magnificent appearance”: EB to Julia Bates, February 23, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“As yet I only…is in my eye”: EB to Julia Bates, January 5, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.
“O, that I could…my sunshine”: EB to Julia Bates, February 25, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.
he lost his bid for reelection: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
got into a heated argument: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 38–39.
“The code preserved…are well spent”: Charles Gibson, The Autobiography of Charles Gibson, ed. E. R. Gibson, 1899, Gibson Papers, MoSHi.