Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [517]
“educated in the Whig school”… defining characteristics: SPC to Lyman Hall, August 6, 1849, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 331.
decision to leave…for Seward: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, p. 7.
“one idea”…than with the Whigs: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 62 (quote), 67, 88, 90–91.
Chase shifted his positions: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 40.
Cincinnati was a natural destination: de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 345.
“Attorney General for the Negro”: Donnal V. Smith, “Salmon P. Chase and the Election of 1860,” OAHQ 39 (July 1930), p. 515.
represented John Van Zandt: See Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 75–78; Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, pp. 53–66; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 76–83.
“Moved by sympathy…very willingly”: SPC to Trowbridge, March 18, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.
“Under the constitution…which made him a slave”: SPC, Reclamation of Fugitives from Service: An Argument for the Defendant, Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at the December Term, 1846, in the Case of Wharton Jones vs. John Vanzandt (Cincinnati: R. P. Donogh & Co., 1847), pp. 82–84.
“a creature of state law”: Chase, Reclamation of Fugitives from Service, p. 81.
“There goes…himself to-day”: Unnamed judge in Van Zandt trial quoted in Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, ed. Annie Fields (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897; Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1970), p. 145.
Chase enlisted Seward’s help as co-counsel: WHS, In the Supreme Court of the United States: John Van Zandt, ad sectum Wharton Jones: Argument for the Defendant (Albany, N.Y.: Weed & Parsons, 1847); Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 39–40; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 83.
“poor old Van Zandt…be a gainer”: SPC to CS, April 24, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers (quote); SPC to Trowbridge, March 18, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.
argument reprinted in pamphlet form: See SPC, Reclamation of Fugitives from Service.
“the question…a political movement”: CS to SPC, March 12, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
Adams and Hale: Charles Francis Adams to SPC, March 4, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers; SPC to John P. Hale, May 12, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“chaste and beautiful…own fame”: WHS to SPC, February 18, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“one of the gratifications…greatest too”: SPC to Lewis Tappan, March 18, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
In gratitude…sterling silver pitcher: For a description of the event, see The Address and Reply on the Presentation of a Testimonial to S. P. Chase, by the Colored People of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio: Henry W. Derby & Co., 1845); Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 85–86.
“whenever the friendless…unto me!”: “Mr. Gordon’s Address,” in The Address and Reply on the Presentation of a Testimonial to S. P. Chase, pp. 12–13, 18.
Chase’s reply: “Reply of Mr. Chase,” in ibid., pp. 19–35.
did not make friends easily: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 130.
“little of human nature”: Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,” Atlantic Monthly, p. 534.
“profoundly versed…of men”: Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War, paraphrased in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 244.
Edwin M. Stanton: Frank Abial Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1905), p. 24; Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 77; Henry Wilson, “Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870), pp. 469–70.
“when he was a boy…to slavery”: William Thaw, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 25.
death had pursued Stanton: Pamphila Stanton Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton: A Biographical Sketch,” Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio; EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton, and their infant daughter Lucy,” Edwin M. Stanton Manuscript, Mss. 1648, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.
“Since our pleasant…face to face”: EMS to SPC, November