Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [524]
“I disdain to carry…the assassin fire!”: Thomas Hart Benton, quoted in Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., p. 762.
Sumner’s praise…“Seward is with us”: CS to SPC, April 10, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers.
“You mistake…Anti Slavery opinions”: SPC to CS, April 13, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers.
“I have never been…a politician for me”: SPC to CS, December 14, 1850, reel 9, Chase Papers.
relationship between Chase and Seward: WHS to SPC, October 2 and 22, 1843; August 4, 1845; reels 5, 6, Chase Papers.
“I made this resolution…me to keep it”: Entry for April 29, 1831, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 57–58.
reaction to Seward’s “Higher Law” speech: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 128, 130; FAS to LW, March 19 and March 21, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 124–27.
“Senator Seward is against…the South”: NYH, March 13, 1850.
Seward was initially untroubled: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 120–21.
“spoken words…when I am dead”: WHS to TW, March 31, 1850, in ibid., p. 129.
When she looked at him: FAS to LW, undated letter, in ibid., p. 120.
“Your speech…relieved my apprehensions”: TW to WHS, March 14, 1850, reel 36, Seward Papers.
“despondency…shame”: WHS to TW, March 31, 1850, Weed Papers.
death of Taylor, succession of Fillmore: Hamilton, Zachary Taylor, Vol. II (1951 ed.), pp. 388–94.
Under the skillful leadership…omnibus bill was broken up: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 109–12; Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 294–96.
Douglas regarded…“drop the subject”: Stephen Douglas, quoted in Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, p. 121.
Upon its passage: NYH, September 8, 9, and 10, 1850.
“The joy of everyone seemed unbounded”: NYTrib, September 10, 1850.
“The crisis is passed—the cloud is gone”: Lewis Cass quoted in NYH, September 10, 1850.
“The elements…but never overcome”: Columbus [Ga.] Sentinel, reprinted in Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, January 23, 1851.
“devotion to…inclined them”: AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, p. 253.
Rejecting Seward’s concept…: AL, “Endorsement on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat,” [May 17, 1860], in CW, IV, p. 50.
He relished the convivial life: Strozier, Lincoln’s Quest for Union, p. 144.
“The local belles…and eloquence”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 63.
“plenty of bedbugs”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 1, 1851, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 77.
“half an inch thick”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, April 24, 1851, David Davis Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Ill. [hereafter Davis Papers, ALPLM].
slept two to a bed…in a room: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 62.
David Davis: See King, Lincoln’s Manager, esp. pp. 9–13, 17, 61.
“warm-hearted” nature: David Davis to Sarah Davis, November 3, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
“exceeding honesty & fairness”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, March 23, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM. 150 “too well to thwart her views”: David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 42.
the judge’s letters about Lincoln: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 3 and October 20, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
“He arrogated…personal affection”: Unidentified lawyer, quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 247.
At mealtimes…prisoners out on bail: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, pp. 63, 72.
“such of us…those who have”: AL, “Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in CW, I, p. 278.
“in full laugh till near daylight”: WHH to “Mr. N.,” February 4, 1874, Grandview [Ind.] Monitor, March 15, 1934, quoted in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 18 n67.
“eyes would sparkle…than his”: Jonathan Birch, “A Student