Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [518]
“Taxation…sincere love for you”: EMS to SPC, August 1846, reel 6, Chase Papers.
Stanton felt free…“careless of the future”: EMS to SPC, November 30, 1846, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“Many weeks…post office each day”: EMS to SPC, January 5, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“Rejoicing, as I do…upon your mercy”: EMS to SPC, March 11, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“filled my heart…bid you farewell”: EMS to SPC, December 2, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“How much I regret…not have left home”: SPC to EMS, January 9, 1848, reel 1, Papers of Edwin M. Stanton, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Stanton Papers, DLC].
“The practice of law…of the camp”: EMS to SPC, May 27, 1849, reel 7, Chase Papers.
“While public honors…inestimable value”: EMS to SPC, May 27, 1849, reel 7, Chase Papers.
“well aware…among men”: EMS to SPC, June 28, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers.
CHAPTER 4: “PLUNDER & CONQUEST”
Washington was a city in progress: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, pp. 101–03.
“a full view…and Virginia”: William Q. Force, “Picture of Washington and its Vicinity for 1850,” Washington, D.C., p. 49.
“stood pig-styes…over the fields”: Samuel C. Busey, M.D., Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-Six Years’ Membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and Residence in this City, with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Deceased Members (Washington, D.C.: [Philadelphia: Dornan, Printer], 1895), pp. 64–65.
population of Washington: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, p. 102.
Webster…would outlive the age: “12 October 1861, Saturday,” in John Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, ed. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), p. 26.
Jefferson Davis…Rhett, agitator of rebellion: Robert C. Byrd, The Senate, 1789–1989, Vol. I: Addresses on the History of the United States Senate, Bicentennial Edition, ed. Mary Sharon Hall (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1988), p. 182.
“he would lay down…merriment”: Busey, Personal Reminiscences, pp. 25, 27.
Mary in Washington: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 107–08; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 136–40.
background of the Mexican War: Robert W. Johannsen, “Mexican War,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 722–24: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 47, 49–50.
“a romantic…exotic land”: Johannsen, “Mexican War,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 723.
John Hardin, was…“God-speeds of men”: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, pp. 79–80.
“It is a fact…growing crops”: AL to John M. Peck, May 21, 1848, in CW, I, p. 473.
combat ended, peace treaty: Johannsen, “Mexican War,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 723.
“not let the whigs be silent”: AL to Usher F. Linder, March 22, 1848, in CW, I, p. 457.
“the original justice…of the President”: AL, “Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico,” January 12, 1848, in ibid., p. 432.
“As you are…before long”: AL to WHH, December 13, 1847, in ibid., p. 420.
“whether the particular…hostile array”: AL, “‘Spot’ Resolutions in the United States House of Representatives,” December 22, 1847, in ibid., p. 421.
“spotty Lincoln”: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, p. 135.
“unnecessarily…be at ease”: AL, “Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico,” January 12, 1848, in CW, I, pp. 432, 433, 439–41.
“treasonable assault”…only a single term: Illinois State Register, March 10, 1848, quoted in Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, p. 135.
to “allow the President…deems it necessary”: AL to WHH, February 15, 1848, in CW, I, p. 451.
“I saw that Lincoln…and again”: WHH to JWW, February 11, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
only to infuriate the Democrats…fainthearted Whigs: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 124–25.
“no…pestilence and famine”: AL, quoting Justin