Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [507]
“as much as any man…we possessed”: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
two terms in the state legislature: “Bates, Edward,” DAB, Vol. I, p. 48.
“the ablest…of that body”: Switzler, “Lincoln’s Attorney General,” reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 27.
he decided in 1835: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 53, 55, 58.
the “curious fact…of the frog”: Bates diary, September 17, 1847.
“bad stammerer…more devoted piety”: Bates diary, December 15, 1849.
“Mistress & Queen”: Bates diary, July 10, 1851.
“begrudge her the short respite”: Bates diary, April 23, 1848.
“This day…in a large house”: Bates diary, November 15, 1851.
Every year, on April 29: See, for example, entry for April 29, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 13.
“mighty changes…of the continent”: Entry for April 29, 1859, in ibid.
His entries proudly record: Bates diary, November 7, 1847; December 20, 1847; December 9, 1852.
a great fire…cholera epidemic: Bates diary, May 18; June 14–28; July 1–11, 1849.
“in perfect health”…fruits and vegetables: Bates diary, July 19, 1849.
medical ignorance…“two weeks at a time”: Bates diary, June 21, 1849.
“I am one…of a known duty”: EB to R. B. Frayser, June 1849, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
Bates filled the pages of his diary: Bates diary, May 21, 1847; May 22, 1847; November 22, 1847; December 10, 1847; March 13, 1848; May 6, 1848; March 11, 1849; March 29, 1851 (quote).
“the largest Convention…the Civil War”: Floyd A. McNeil, “Lincoln’s Attorney General; Edward Bates,” Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1934, p. 155.
5,000 accredited delegates…David Dudley Field: Shaw, “A Neglected Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln,” Transactions (1922), p. 54; Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1928), pp. 89–90.
“Hon. Abraham…in the State”: NYTrib, July 14, 1847.
“No one who saw…with woolen socks”: E. B. Washburne, “Political Life in Illinois,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, p. 92.
“deep astonishment”…responsibility for its failure: Bates diary, July 5, 1847.
“leaped at one bound…prominence”: Switzler, “Lincoln’s Attorney General,” reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 28.
Lincoln impressed…Democrat Field: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1859, Vol. II, p. 91.
“too intent…of Reporting”: Albany Evening Journal, July 23, 1847.
“No account…do it justice”: NYTrib, July 15, 1847.
“between sectional disruption…material greatness”: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 63.
“he was interrupted…in attendance”: TW, quoted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 30.
“the crowning act…either house of Congress”: Bates diary, July 5, 1847.
“The nation cannot…and patriotism”: Albany Evening Journal, July 23, 1847.
“the glittering bauble”: Entry for February 28, 1860, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 106.
“noble aspirations…natural result”: EB to TW, August 9, 1847, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, January 11, 1861.
“had no ambition…business of the country”: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 52, 53.
Seward and Weed meet: See ibid., pp. 55–56; Thurlow Weed, Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Harriet A. Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883), p. 139.
“he printed…his own hand”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 56.
details of Weed’s early life: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed; Thurlow Weed Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884).
He had walked miles: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 12–13.
“a politician who sees…him forever”: Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 26–27.
Such measures…“extend its dominion”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 54.
the Albany Evening Journal: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 360–62.
Weed engineered…from the seventh district: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 80.
the youngest member to enter: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 24.
Albany still a small town: John J. McEneny, Albany: Capital City on the Hudson (Sun Valley, Calif.: American Historical Press,