Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [532]
“good in conception…in consequence”: Richmond Enquirer, June 3, 1856, quoted in Gienapp, “The Crime Against Sumner,” CWH (1979), p. 222.
presented Brooks…and walking stick: Columbia [S.C.] Carolinian, reprinted in Charleston Daily Courier, May 28, 1856.
“We are rejoiced…catch it next”: Richmond Whig, quoted in NYT, May 26, 1856.
“If thrashing is…wretch, Sumner”: Petersburg [Va.] Intelligencer, quoted in NYT, May 29, 1856.
“apparent that…Brooks-Sumner affair”: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, p. 309.
“all shades…and abolitionists”: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 165.
“fire and energy and force”: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 313.
“That is the greatest…the presidency”: Jesse K. Dubois, quoted in Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 257.
“Lost Speech”: Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856, report in the Alton Weekly Courier, June 5, 1856, in CW, II, p. 341; Oates, With Malice Toward None, pp. 136–37.
By the late spring of 1856: Republican National Convention, One Hundred Years Ago: Proceedings of the First Republican Nominating Convention, Philadelphia, 1856 (n.p.: n.p., 1956); Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 334–45.
both Seward and Chase…the nomination: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 174, 176; SPC to Hiram Barney, June 6, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
gubernatorial election…nomination in 1856: Reinhard H. Luthin, “Salmon P. Chase’s Political Career Before the Civil War,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29 (March 1943), p. 525; SPC to Kinsley S. Bingham, October 19, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
meeting at Blair home: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I, pp. 323–24; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 178; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 250–51.
“approving…invitation”: WHS to TW, December 31, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 264.
turned to potential candidates: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 178–79.
“if the unvarnished…people”: SPC to Edward Hamlin, June 12, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
neglected to appoint a manager…failed to unite: Hiram Barney to SPC, June 21, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers; entry for June 1856, SPC diary, 1845–1859, reel 1, Chase Papers, DLC; Luthin, “Salmon P. Chase’s Political Career Before the Civil War,” MVHR (1943), p. 526.
“I know that if…been accomplished”: Hiram Barney to SPC, June 21, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
Seward had greater reason…Weed kept him from running: WHS to FAS, June 14 and 17, 1856, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 277–78; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 174, 176–77; Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 95; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 310, 339.
Lincoln was staying…“two steps at a time”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, pp. 94–95 (quote p. 95).
110 votes for vice president: Republican National Convention, One Hundred Years Ago, p. 67.
“Davis and I…reckon it’s him”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 96.
Bates refused…Whig National Convention: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 85, 86–88.
American Party…preserving the Union: Ibid., p. 82.
“I am neither…disordered territory”: EB before the Whig National Convention in Baltimore, July 1856, quoted in ibid., p. 88.
results of 1856 presidential election: Congressional Quarterly, Presidential Elections Since 1789, p. 181.
Dred Scott case: Paul Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents. The Bedford Series in History and Culture (Boston and New York: Bedford Books, 1997); Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
“an uncompromising…antislavery movement”: Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford, p. 29.
“Bright skies…bland atmosphere”: Star, March 4, 1857.
Buchanan inaugural address: James Buchanan, “Inaugural Address, March 4, 1857,” in The Works of James Buchanan, Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence. Vol. X: 1856–1860, ed. John Bassett Moore (Philadelphia and London: