Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [527]
“I had never…aggressive and dangerous”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Fugitive Slave Law,” reprinted in The Portable Emerson, pp. 547–48.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: See Thomas F. Gossett, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985), pp. 164, 183–84.
“a flash…hosts of slavery”: Frederick Douglass, quoted in ibid., p. 172.
“in greater numbers…against invasion”: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 23.
“blood and treasure”: Fehrenbacher, “The Wilmot Proviso and the Mid-Century Crisis” in Fehrenbacher, The South and Three Sectional Crises, p. 35.
“The day may come…out of it!”: Thomas Bragg, quoted in Avery O. Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848–1861. Vol. VI: A History of the South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953; 1984), p. 204.
“a mighty subject…every five minutes”: WHS to [FAS?], February 12, 1854, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 219.
“essays against slavery…was the leader”: Stephen Douglas, quoted in Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 134.
“one of the most effective…ever produced”: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 93 (quote); Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, p. 72.
“We arraign…cause of God”: SPC, et al., Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress, to the People of the United States. Shall Slavery be Permitted in Nebraska? (Washington, D.C.: Towers’ Printers, 1854).
“Chase’s greatest…experience of his life”: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 134.
“By far the most…of the Senate”: NYT, February 6, 1854.
“high pitch of wrath…a corrupt bargain”: Pike, “Night Scenes in the Passage of the Nebraska Bill,” March 4, 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, pp. 217–18 (quote p. 217).
“I said the man…I mean you”: NYTrib, March 6, 1854.
“this discussion…man, as man”: SPC, “Maintain Plighted Faith. Speech of Hon. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, in the Senate, February 3, 1854,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., p. 140.
“Ah…‘negro’ with two gs”: NYTrib, March 7, 1854 (first quote); Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I (4 vols., New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939), p. 144 (second quote).
“Midnight passed…was taken”: Pike, “Night Scenes in the Passage of the Nebraska Bill,” March 4, 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 216.
The all-night session: Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, p. 432.
by “great confusion…galleries participated”: NYTrib, March 4, 1854.
“beastly drunk…the Senate room”: Ibid.
“The Senate is emasculated”: Thomas Hart Benton, quoted by Pike, “Night Scenes in the Passage of the Nebraska Bill,” March 4, 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 220.
a distant cannonade: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 152.
“They celebrate…itself shall die”: Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 156.
“Be assured…forces of slavery and freedom”: Pike, “A Warning,” April 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, pp. 222–23.
“The tremendous storm…every week”: Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: A House Dividing, p. 125.
Resolutions: NYTrib, March 6 and 10, 1854.
“led by a band…torches and banners”: NYTrib, March 6, 1854.
“he sat on the edge…half-slave and half-free”: T. Lyle Dickey, paraphrased in Frederick Trevor Hill, Lincoln the Lawyer (New York: Century Co, 1906), p. 264.
“as he had never been before”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, p. 67 (quote); Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues, pp. 232–34, 238–39.
“took us by…and stunned”: AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, p. 282.
spent many hours in the State Library: Illinois State Register, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 173.
“inside and…downside”: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 478.
“I am slow…to rub it out”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, December 6, 1866, in HI, p. 499.
at the annual State Fair: Illinois State Journal, October 5, 1854; Peoria Daily Press, October 9, 1854; Illinois State Register, October 6,