Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [519]
“Our population…shores of the Pacific”: WHS, 1846, quoted in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 791.
“not expect…national adversaries”: WHS to unknown recipient, May 28, 1846, in ibid., p. 809.
“would not have engaged in”: SPC to Gerrit Smith, September 1, 1846, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“gross…plunder & conquest”: Bates diary, March 13, 1848.
ashamed of his Whig…“Presidential election”: Bates diary, March 14, 1848.
“a war of conquest…to catch votes”: Delaware State Journal, June 13, 1848, quoted as “Speech at Wilmington, Delaware, June 10, 1848,” in CW, I, p. 476.
David Wilmot…Senate: “Wilmot Proviso,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 1155; David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, completed and ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher. New American Nation Series (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), pp. 21–23 (quote p. 21).
Lincoln positioned himself…“exist in the old”: AL to Williamson Durley, October 3, 1845, in CW, I, p. 348.
Bates considered the problem…pull the country apart: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 59–60, 66.
John Calhoun led the…American territory: John C. Calhoun, February 19, 1847, Congressional Globe, 29th Cong., 2nd sess., pp. 453–55 (quote p. 455).
“The madmen of the North…glorious Union”: Richmond [Va.] Enquirer, February 18, 1847.
“When you were…marry again”: AL to MTL, April 16, 1848, in CW, I, pp. 465–66.
“My dear Husband…love to all”: MTL to AL, May 1848, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 36–38.
“The leading matter…till I see you”: AL to MTL, June 12, 1848, in CW, I, p. 477.
“I am in favor…elect any other whig”: AL to Thomas S. Flournoy, February 17, 1848, in ibid., p. 452.
“on the blind side…hanged themselves”: AL to WHH, June 12, 1848, in ibid., p. 477.
“very willingly…Universal Freedom”: WHS to SPC, June 12, 1848, reel 6, Chase Papers.
a “doughface”: Anonymous, A Bake-Pan for Dough-Faces (Burlington, Vt.: Chauncey Goodrich, 1854), p. 1; Byrd, The Senate, 1789–1989, Vol. I, pp. 206–07.
the Free Soil Convention in Buffalo, 1848: See Foner, Free Soil. Free Labor, Free Men, p. 125; Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 61–66.
asking if his name…vice presidency: Bates diary, August 5, 1848.
remained a slaveowner: Entry for Edward Bates, Dardenne, St. Charles County, Missouri, Sixth Census of the United States, 1840 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704, reel 230), RG 29, DNA. According to Bates’s entry in the 1840s federal census, there were nine slaves in the Bates household. By 1860, the servants and farmhands employed by Bates seem to have been exclusively Irish. Entry for Edward Bates, Carondelet, St. Louis Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, reel 656), RG 29, DNA.
his belief in the inferiority of the black race: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 46.
one of his female slaves escaped…“plagued with them”: Bates diary, April 15, 1848.
Bates declined…“geographical party”: Bates diary, August 5, 1848.
“Free Soil, Free Speech”: SPC to Thomas Bolton, December 1, 1848, reel 7, Chase Papers.
to “prohibit slavery extension”: Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Old Northwest, p. 140.
Arriving uninvited…without a speaker: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858, Vol. II, pp. 171–72.
“an intellectual face…from that State”: Boston Daily Advertiser, September 14, 1848, reprinted as “Speech at Worcester, Massachusetts,” September 12, 1848, in CW, II, pp. 1–2, 5.
Whig rally at the Tremont Temple; Seward and Lincoln meet: James Schouler, “Abraham Lincoln at Tremont Temple in 1848,” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, October, 1908–June, 1909 XLII (1909), pp. 70–83.
“had probably…Governor Seward’s”: AL, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 80.
“the time will come…institution of slavery”: WHS, “Whig Mass Meeting, Boston, October 15, 1848,” Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 289, 288.
“a most forcible…applause”: Boston Courier, September