Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [533]
“are not included…bound to respect”: Roger B. Taney, opinion quoted in Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford, pp. 35–36.
did not stop even there…was not before it: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 276–79.
“become convinced…its introduction”: Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, quoted in ibid., p. 279 n24.
“one of the Court’s…wounds”: Opinion of Felix Frankfurter, in conversation with law clerk Richard N. Goodwin, as told to the author.
“often wrestled in the halls…justly won it”: Richmond Enquirer, March 10, 1857.
“the accredited interpreter…and confused”: Richmond Enquirer, March 13, 1857.
“Sheer blasphemy”: Congressman John F. Potter, quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 104.
“entitled to just…Washington bar-room”: NYTrib, March 7, 1857.
“an impartial judicial body”…would fail: Pike, “Decision of the Supreme Court,” March 8, 1857, from the NYTrib, reprinted in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, pp. 368–69 (quote p. 368).
“Judge Taney…good, evil”: Frederick Douglass, “The Dred Scott Decision: Speech at New York, on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May 11, 1857,” reprinted in Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford, p. 174.
“has aroused”…reported to Sumner: FAS to CS, April 23, 1857, reel 15, Sumner Papers.
Dred Scott was sold…to slavery: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, p. 290.
Speaking in Springfield…“circumstances should permit”: AL, “Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” June 16, 1857, in CW, II, pp. 398–410 (quotes p. 403, 405, 406).
“The day of inauguration…English liberty”: WHS, “Kansas-Lecompton Constitution,” March 3, 1858, Senate, Congressional Globe, 35th Cong., 1st sess., p. 941.
reaction to Seward speech…access to the White House: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 190.
“have refused…to such a man”: Samuel Tyler, Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney (Baltimore, 1872; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), p. 391.
Seward’s Rochester, New York, speech: WHS, “The Irrepressible Conflict, Rochester, October 25, 1858,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, pp. 289–302 (quotes pp. 291, 292; italics added).
Frances Seward…stance of the South: FAS to CS, January 4, 1859, reel 17, Sumner Papers.
“that troubled…irrepressible?”: Kenneth M. Stampp, “The Irrepressible Conflict,” in Stampp, The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980; 1981), p. 191.
uproar in opposition papers: Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., October 28, 1858.
“more repulsive…Rev. Dr. Parker”: NYH, October 28, 1858.
“never comprehended…words”: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, p. 191.
“if heaven…do it again”: WHS, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 194.
conciliatory…with his adversaries: David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1942), pp. 25–26.
“alarm and apprehension”: WHS to FAS, February 9, 1849, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 98.
“This general impression…‘Night’s Dream’”: WHS to FAS, February 9, 1849, quoted in ibid., p. 98.
“Those who assailed…pinch of snuff”: Albany Evening Journal, May 19, 1890.
Seward’s extravagant dinner parties: Columbus [Ohio] Gazette, April 6, 1860 (quotes); Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 257–58.
a trip through Canada: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 301–22; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 183.
“voyage of discovery”: FPB to WHS, October 5, 1857, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 324.
“very best traveling”…elegant meals: FPB to WHS, November 1, 1857, quoted in ibid., p. 326.
“At an age…of the nation”: Cincinnati Enquirer, August 6, 1899.
“a scientific knowledge…surpassed”: Peacock, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, p. 214.
“Her complexion…of her head”: Sara A. Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War. Revised and enlarged ed. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905), pp. 75–76.
Gothic mansion on Sixth Street: Niven, Salmon P. Chase,