Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [537]
“‘the irrepressible conflict’…the political aspirants”: Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 519.
“differences of opinion…always of their wants”: WHS, February 29, 1860, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 912–14.
produced deafening applause: Entry for February 29, 1860, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 197, 198; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 220.
half a million copies were circulated: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 219.
“killed Seward with me forever”: Cassius Marcellus Clay, The Life of Cassius Marcellus Clay. Memoirs, Writings, and Speeches, Showing His Conduct in the Overthrow of American Slavery, the Salvation of the Union, and the Restoration of the Autonomy of the United States (n.p.: J. Fletcher Brennan & Co., 1886; New York: Negro Universities Press/Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1969), pp. 242–43.
“as an intellectual…agrees with me”: CS to Duchess Elizabeth Argyll, March 2, 1860, reel 74, Sumner Papers.
“From the stand-point…matter of party justice”: Frederick Douglass, “Mr. Seward’s Great Speech,” Douglass’ Monthly (April 1860).
“I hear of ultra…equally satisfactory”: Samuel Bowles to TW, March 5, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 260.
“seems to be…set toward Seward”: Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 519.
Weed assured him that everything was in readiness: TW to WHS, May 2, 6, and 8, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“oceans of money”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.
a longing for political office: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-Century Crusader, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), pp. 116–17, 185–86; Thurlow Weed, “Recollections of Horace Greeley,” Galaxy 15 (March 1873), pp. 379–80.
Greeley’s plaintive letter to Seward: Horace Greeley to WHS, November 11, 1854, reel 48, Seward Papers.
“full of sharp, pricking thorns”: WHS to TW, November 12, 1854, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 239.
mistakenly assumed…“mortal offense”: Carpenter, “A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.
“insinuated…to the nomination”: Henry Raymond, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 274.
Weed had a long talk with Greeley…“all right”: WHS to home, Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 395.
Weed’s failure to meet…Seward relayed the message: WHS to TW, March 15, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 261.
Seward’s visit to Lochiel: WHS to TW, April 11, 1859, Weed Papers; Lee F. Crippen, Simon Cameron, Antebellum, The American Scene: Comments and Commentators series (Oxford, Ohio, 1942; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), p. 209.
“He took me…to embarrass me”: WHS to TW, April 11, 1859, Weed Papers.
“an honest politician…stays bought”: Simon Cameron, quoted in Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 46.
“so much money…man in Pennsylvania”: NYT, June 3, 1878.
Cameron’s political offices: Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 26.
his “legislative child”: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 53.
People’s Party state convention: Crippen, Simon Cameron, Ante-bellum Years, pp. 201, 205.
Andrew Curtin…challenging Cameron: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 55–56.
Chase and the Baileys…“in European tradition”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 61, 123, 140–41 (quote p. 140).
“detestable” Know Nothings: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, November 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“in the presidential…other man”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, June 26, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“observing the signs…integrity or my friendship”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, January 16, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“I do not doubt…spontaneous growth”: SPC to Gamaliel Bailey, January 24, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“a slip of your pen…as a friend”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, January 30, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
preferred the unrealistic…on the first ballot: Hiram Barney to SPC, November 10, 1859, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Failing once again to appoint: Donnal V. Smith, “Salmon P. Chase and the