Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [516]
“the kindest…was necessary”: MTL interview, September 1866, in HI, p. 357.
a gentle and indulgent father: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 344. See also “‘Unrestrained by Parental Tyranny’: Lincoln and His Sons,” chapter 3 in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 57–72.
“litterally ran over…their importunities”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in HI, p. 181.
“It is my pleasure…child to its parent”: AL, quoted in MTL interview, September 1866, in ibid., p. 357.
“Now if you should…he is mistaken”: AL to Richard S. Thomas, February 14, 1843, in CW, I, p. 307.
“That ‘union is strength’…‘cannot stand’”: “Campaign Circular from Whig Committee,” March 4, 1843, in ibid., p. 315.
“We had a meeting…own dear ‘gal’”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, March 24, 1843, in ibid., p. 319.
his defeat in Sangamon…“family distinction”: AL to Martin S. Morris, March 26, 1843, in ibid., p. 320.
in Pekin…idea of rotating terms: AL, “Resolution Adopted at Whig Convention at Pekin, Illinois,” May 1, 1843, in ibid., p. 322.
Lincoln left nothing to chance: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 105.
He asked friends to share…every precinct: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, pp. 74–75.
“a quiet trip…vigilance”: AL to Benjamin F. James, January 14, 1846, in CW, I, p. 354.
“That Hardin is talented…‘is fair play’”: AL to Robert Boal, January 7, 1846, in ibid., p. 353.
“not…all other grounds”: AL to John J. Hardin, February 7, 1846, in ibid., p. 364.
“I am not a politician…their ends”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, August 29, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.
James G. Birney: See Betty Fladeland, James Gillespie Birney: Slaveholder to Abolitionist (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1955), esp. pp. 129–36.
a group of white community leaders: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 47.
On a hot summer night…continued to publish: Fladeland, James Gillespie Birney, pp. 136–37; Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 29.
the mob returned…tarred and feathered: Fladeland, James Gillespie Birney, pp. 140–41.
he raced to the hotel…“at any time”: SPC, quoted in Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 48.
“His voice and commanding…right time”: Ibid.
“No man…courage and resolution”: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 435.
“By dedicating himself…in its pursuit”: Maizlish, “Salmon P. Chase,” JER (1998), p. 62.
background of the Matilda case: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 50–51; Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 73–74; Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, pp. 41–44.
“Every settler…interdicts slavery”: SPC, Speech of Salmon P. Chase in the Case of the Colored Woman, Matilda: Who was Brought Before the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, by Writ of Habeas Corpus, March 11, 1837 (Cincinnati: Pugh & Dodd, 1837), pp. 29, 30, 8.
they were printed in pamphlet form: SPC, Speech of Salmon P. Chase in the Case of the Colored Woman, Matilda. 110 Chase versus the Garrisonians: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 50, 55–56, 65.
“a covenant with…agreement with hell”: Quoted in James Brewer Stewart, William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of Emancipation. American Biographical History Series (Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1992), p. 164.
Chase decided, to try for public office…city establishments: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 57–59.
the “vital question of slavery”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, August 29, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.
Chase and the Liberty Party: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 67–70; Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 78–81. See also “Liberty Party,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 657.
“to interfere…where it exists”: “Proceedings and Resolutions of the Ohio Liberty Convention,” Philanthropist, December 29, 1841, quoted in Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 68.
“without constitutional warrant”: SPC to Gerrit Smith, May 14, 1842, reel 5, Chase Papers.
“has seen so little…the very first”: SPC to Joshua R. Giddings, January 21, 1842, reel 5, Chase Papers.
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