Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [522]
“Every act…meant His Own”: Ohio State Journal, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 72.
voted to repeal the hated Black Laws: Noah Brooks, Statesmen (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904), p. 158.
“not see how…or profit by it”: Horace Greeley to SPC, April 16, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“It lost to him…his political after life”: Riddle, “The Election of Salmon P. Chase,” Republic (1875), p. 183.
Certainly, his willingness to sever…custom of the times: Ibid., p. 183; Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 90; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 146–47.
“I can hardly…of our cause”: CS to SPC, February 27, 1849, reel 7, Chase Papers.
“to be first wherever I may be”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.
CHAPTER 5: THE TURBULENT FIFTIES
population: “Area and Population of the United States: 1790–1970,” series A 1–5, in U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, Part 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1975), p. 8.
Nearly three fourths…participated: “Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1824–1928,” available at infoplease website, www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0877659.html (accessed July 2005).
“were the daily fare…are undervalued”: Charles Ingersoll, quoted in Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 102.
“Look into the morning…second breakfast”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Fugitive Slave Law,” reprinted in The Portable Emerson, new ed., ed. Carl Bode, with Malcolm Cowley (New York: Penguin Books, 1981), p. 542.
“You meet…ale- and oyster-houses”: Ludwig Gall, quoted in Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, pp. 102–3.
“The nullifiers…Potomac river”: Andrew Jackson, quoted in Marquis James, Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937), p. 324.
three fifths of a person…lawful masters: U.S. Constitution, Section I, Article II, and Section IV, Article II.
“written in the bond…its obligations”: John Quincy Adams, quoted in Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, p. 47.
“If by your legislation…for disunion”: Robert Toombs, debate in the House of Representatives, December 13, 1849, Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., p. 28.
Mississippi called for a convention: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 88, 94, 104.
“We read…nuptial couch, everywhere!”: Thomas Hart Benton, May 31, 1848, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 30th Cong., 1st sess., p. 686.
“We must concern…of life and death”: John Randolph, quoted in Margaret L. Coit, John C. Calhoun: American Portrait (Atlanta, Ga.: Cherokee Publishing Co., 1990), p. 166.
“antagonistical elements”: WHS, “The Election of 1848, Cleveland, Ohio, October 26, 1848,” Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, p. 295.
“It is a great mistake…except force”: John C. Calhoun, “The Compromise,” March 4, 1850, Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., p. 453.
All eyes turned to…Henry Clay: Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991), pp. 730–38.
“regarded by all…man for a crisis”: AL, “Eulogy on Henry Clay,” July 6, 1852, in CW, II, p. 129.
“the spirit and the fire of youth”: James S. Pike, “Mr. Clay’s Speech,” May 20, 1850, from the NYTrib, reprinted in James S. Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States (New York: American News Company, 1879), p. 72.
Henry Clay speech, resolutions: “Compromise Resolutions. Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, in the Senate of the United States, February 5 and 6, 1850,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., pp. 115–27 (quotes pp. 115, 127).
denied a jury trial…hunt down escapees: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 130–31.
“if the direful…heart-rending spectacle”: “Compromise Resolutions. Speech of Mr. Clay,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, p. 127.
Frances Seward in the gallery: FAS to LW, February 10, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.
F Street house in Washington: