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“above every other thing in the world”: WHS to FAS, August 22, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
whose “silver rays”…in the mail: WHS to FAS, January 27, 1831, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 173.
played in the smoke from his cigar: WHS to FAS, January 15, 1831, in ibid., p. 168.
“Clouds and darkness…twelve months ago”: SPC to CS, September 8, 1850, reel 7, Sumner Papers.
isolated in the Senate…achieve his position: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 142, 146–47.
routine at Miss Haines’s School: Julia Newberry, Julia Newberry’s Diary, intro. Margaret Ayer Barnes and Janet Ayer Fairbank (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933), pp. 35–36: Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, pp. 74–75; Alice Hunt Sokoloff, Kate Chase for the Defense (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971), pp. 28–29.
“without…we could hardly breathe”: Newberry, Julia Newberry’s Diary, p. 36.
correspondence between Chase and Kate: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 201. Examples of loving but critical letters to KCS: July 22, August 23, September 5, 1850; January 15, March 2, April 19, August 30, September 10, 1851; January 23, 1853; May 27, 1855; April 30, 1859.
“Your last letter…use your eyes, reflect”: SPC to KCS, January 15, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I wish…into your letters”: SPC to KCS, January 22, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“Your nice letter…drowsy God”: SPC to KCS, June 21, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“It will be a…pleasurable sensation”: SPC to KCS, February 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“Remember…preparation for another!”: SPC to KCS, December 5, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“strong, robust…give you grace”: SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I am sorry…to you the reasons why”: SPC to KCS, August 10, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“you have it…by ill conduct”: SPC to KCS, January 23, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“To an affectionate father…delightful future”: SPC to KCS, March 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“be made President”: SPC to KCS, February 21, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I knew Clay…and was a brilliant talker”: “Kate Chase in 1893,” undated newspaper clipping from the Star, “Sprague, Kate Chase” vertical file, Washingtoniana Division, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. [hereafter KCS vertical file, DWP].
“You cannot think…hear you praised”: SPC to KCS, January 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“have visited…as they should be”: SPC to KCS, August 27, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“The sun shines…the chirp of insects”: SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I should like…a ramble together”: SPC to KCS, April 3, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
Chase understood her desire: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 419.
“Miss Lizzie…among gentlemen”: SPC to KCS, August 4, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
the “African mania”: Bates diary, January 1, 1850.
“lovers of free…in the South”: Bates diary, January 1, 1850.
“a struggle among…sectional supremacy”: Bates diary, May 31, 1851.
radicals…personal ambition: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 46.
“in Civil government…arbitrary designing knave”: Bates diary, July 4, 1851.
“the world’s best hope…so black”: Bates diary, March 6, 1850.
“if we stood aloof…insignificance”: Bates diary, November 27, 1850.
“A human being…crippling effect”: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, trans. John E. Woods (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 31.
speech at Young Men’s Lyceum: AL, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, in CW, I, pp. 108–15, esp. 108, 113–14.
A train of events…grant them territorial status: Henry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 104–05; Fehrenbacher, The South and Three Sectional Crises, pp. 49, 56–57.
Kansas-Nebraska Act: See “Kansas-Nebraska Act,” in The Reader’s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 609.
Enforcement…in Boston and New York: Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union.