Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [531]
Chase…unhindered by past loyalties: Riddle, “The Election of Salmon P. Chase,” Republic (1875), p. 183; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 33.
Chase accomplished…statewide ticket: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 157–58, 171: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 192–203.
Chase’s campaign for governor: SPC to James S. Pike, October 18, 1855, and SPC to CS, October 15, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 200–01.
“on a hand car…another hand car”: SPC to KCS, September 30, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“The anxiety…breathe freely!”: CS to SPC, October 11, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
Seward faced a more difficult challenge: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 223–25.
lavish dinners…bishop John Hughes: Hugh Hastings letter, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 232–33.
Working without rest…in the Senate: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 96.
“I snatch…shattered bark”: WHS to TW, February 7, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 245.
“I have never…was made known”: FAS to Augustus Seward, February 7, 1855, reel 115, Seward Papers.
liberated to join…in the state of New York: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 224–27.
“I am so happy…. political pew”: CS to WHS, October 15, 1855, reel 49, Seward Papers.
Seward’s October speech: WHS, “The Advent of the Republican Party, Albany, October 12, 1855,” in The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, ed. George E. Baker (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884; New York: AMS Press, 1972), pp. 225–40 (quote p. 237).
organizing the various…Republican Party: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 189–91.
guerrilla war had broken out: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 199–215.
“engage in competition…in right”: WHS, remarks in “The Nebraska and Kansas Bill,” May 25, 1854, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., p. 769.
“When the North…eager foe”: Charleston Mercury, June 21, 1854, quoted in Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 204.
assault on Sumner by Preston Brooks: David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, collector’s edition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960; Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1987), pp. 294–95; William E. Gienapp, “The Crime Against Sumner: The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party,” Civil War History 25 (September 1979), pp. 218–45.
Sumner’s speech: CS, “Kansas Affairs. Speech of Hon. C. Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the Senate, May 19–20, 1856,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 529–44.
laced with literary and historical references: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 281–82.
“a chivalrous knight…humiliating offices”: CS, “Kansas Affairs,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 530–31.
advised him to remove the personal attacks: William H. Seward, Jr., “Youthful Recollections,” p. 13, folder 36, Box 120, William Henry Seward Papers, Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Rochester Library [hereafter Seward Papers, NRU], Rochester, N.Y.
“the most un-American…or elsewhere”: Response by Lewis Cass to CS’s speech, May 20, 1856, Appendix the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 544.
Preston Brooks’s attack on Sumner: See Boston Pilot, May 31, 1856; NYT, May 23, 1856; Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 294–97.
“You have libelled…come to punish you”: Boston Pilot, May 31, 1856.
“Knots of men…by the slave power”: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, May 29, 1856.
Mass public meetings: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 300–01.
“see the slave aggression…in Congress”: F. A. Sumner to CS, June 24, 1856, quoted in Gienapp, “The Crime Against Sumner,” CWH (1979), p. 230.
“but the knocking-down…Southern spirit”: NYTrib, May 24, 1856.
“proved a…Republican party”: Gienapp, “The Crime Against Sumner,” CWH (1979), p. 239.
Sumner hero in North, Brooks in South: Ibid., pp. 221, 222–23; Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War,