Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [534]
“I feel I am…trust yours”: SPC to KCS, December 5, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
“you have capacity and will do very well”: SPC to KCS, December 4, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
role of Ohio’s first lady: Ross, Proud Kate, pp. 32–33, 36–37.
“I knew all…very early age”: “Kate Chase in 1893,” undated newspaper clipping from the Star, KCS vertical file, DCPL.
first dinner “in society…very beautiful”: Howells, Years of My Youth, pp. 154–55.
led to a tryst…end to the relationship: Columbus Special to the Chicago Times, reprinted in Cincinnati Enquirer, August 13, 1879.
“I find that…any other man”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, November 3, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
met in Lecompton…applied for statehood: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 300, 306–07, 313–15, 318–20, 322–25.
now siding with the Republicans: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 316, 318, 320–21.
“My objection…a slave State”: Stephen A. Douglas’s speech, “Third Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Illinois,” September 15, 1858, in CW, III, p. 115.
He cared not…voted up or down: AL on Stephen Douglas, in “A House Divided”: Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, p. 463.
“was not the act…embody their will”: Stephen A. Douglas’s speech, “Third Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Illinois,” September 15, 1858, in CW, III, p. 115.
“What can…freedom and justice”: WHS to [FAS?], December 10, 1857, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 330.
Greeley called on Illinois Republicans: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 61.
Lincoln at once…destroyed the Republican Party: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, May 27, 1858, in CW, II, p. 455; AL to SPC, April 30, 1859, in CW, III, p. 378; Donald, Lincoln, pp. 204, 208.
“accosted by friends…to go under”: AL, “Fragment of a Speech,” [c. May 18, 1858], in CW, II, p. 448.
“What does…here in Illinois?”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, December 28, 1857, in ibid., p. 430.
“incapable of…pure republican position”: AL to Charles L. Wilson, June 1, 1858, in ibid., p. 457.
interference of the Eastern Republicans: Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Ill., June 16, 1858; Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, pp. 62–63.
“Abraham Lincoln…United States Senate”: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 179.
a statewide Republican convention…“Stephen A. Douglas”: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, pp. 63, 48 (quote p. 48).
“A house divided…another Supreme Court decision”: AL, “A House Divided”: Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, pp. 461, 465–67. “A House Divided” appears in the Bible in Matthew 12:25; Mark 3:24.
If “the point…talking about”: James M. McPherson, “How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors,” Eighth Annual R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, 1985, reprinted in James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 104.
“weight and authority…not promise to ever be”: AL, “A House Divided”: Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, pp. 462–63, 467–68.
“What if Judge”…to extend slavery: AL’s reply, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 22, 20 (quote p. 22).
“planned to seize…nationalize slavery”: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 77.
Lincoln, the challenger, asked Douglas: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text, ed. Harold Holzer (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 2–6.
both men covered over 4,000 miles: Ibid., p. 20.
marching bands…picnics: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 21–22, 24–25, 28, 30–31, 33–34, 37.
“all the devoted…for athletic contests”: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 15.
“the country people…lines in single combat”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 92, 88.
“were the successive…of the nation”: AL’s speech, “Sixth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Quincy, Illinois,” October 13, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 252–53.
“On the whole…extreme modest simplicity”: Schurz, Reminiscences,