Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [538]
He rejected an appeal from a New Hampshire supporter: Amos Tuck to SPC, March 14, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
He never capitalized…a series of letters: Reinhard H. Luthin, “Pennsylvania and Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 67 (January 1943), p. 66; SPC to Hiram Barney, September 22, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers; Smith, “Salmon P. Chase and the Election of 1860,” OAHQ (1930), pp. 520–21; Luthin, “Salmon P. Chase’s Political Career Before the Civil War,” MVHR (1943), p. 531.
“I now begin…but he works”: James M. Ashley to SPC, April 5, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“I shall have nobody…of the State”: SPC to Benjamin Eggleston, May 10, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“The Ohio delegation…as yet”: Erastus Hopkins to SPC, May 17, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“in a position…to occupy”: SPC to Benjamin R. Cowen, May 14, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Kate convinced her father: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 42.
Seward was very kind…“good deal of joking”: SPC to James A. Briggs, April 27, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers (quote); WHS to FAS, April 27, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 447.
organized a party…“two rivals within”: WHS to FAS, April 28, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 447.
the Blairs threw…“well-cultivated”: WHS to FAS, April 29, 1860, quoted in ibid., p. 448.
“attention to Katie…kind to me”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 4, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“Everybody seems…confidence in me”: SPC to James A. Briggs, April 27, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“a great change…I was in Washington”: SPC to James A. Briggs, May 8, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
But he never left his home state…to visit him: See entries from January to May 1860 in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 95.
“the first…two years”: Entry for February 22, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 101.
his distance from the fierce arguments of the fifties: Introduction, ibid., p. xii.
his “views and opinions…of the country”: Entry for April 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 1.
The New York Whigs…“sectional prejudice”: EB to Whig Committee of New York, February 24, 1859, reprinted in entry for April 20, 1859, in ibid., pp. 1–9 (quotes pp. 1–2).
“denouncing…the Republican party”: Entry for April 27, 1859, in ibid., p. 12.
confirmed Bates’s…“well enough alone”: Entry for December 17, 1859, in ibid., pp. 78–79.
“brighter every day”: Note of February 2, 1860, added to entry for January 28, 1860, in ibid., p. 94.
“made up of ‘Bates men’”: Entries for February 25 and March 1, 1860, in ibid., pp. 102 (quote), 107.
“good feeling…support Lincoln”: Entry for April 26, 1860, in ibid., p. 122.
“would be the best…the South of it”: AL to Richard M. Corwine, April 6, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 36.
endorsements by conventions: Entries for March 1 and March 13, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 106, 108 (quote p. 106).
the German-American contingent…party in 1856: Reinhard H. Luthin, “Organizing the Republican Party in the ‘Border-Slave’ Regions: Edward Bates’s Presidential Candidacy in 1860,” Missouri Historical Review 38 (January 1944), pp. 149–50.
Blair suggested a questionnaire: Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 82.
“beaten with…into the quicksands”: Joseph Medill, quoted in O. J. Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), p. 147.
Bates’s response to questionnaire: EB to Committee of the Missouri Republican Convention, March 17, 1860, reprinted in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 111–14.
responses to Bates’s statement: See Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 104–05.
“as a clap…a clear sky”: Lexington [Mo.] Express, reprinted in Daily Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., April 5, 1860.
“just as good…the Southern Conservatives”: Louisville [Ky.] Journal, extracted in the [Indianapolis] Daily Journal, quoted in Luthin, “Organizing the Republican Party in the ‘Border-Slave’ Regions,” MHR (1944), p. 151.
“agitators…peace of our Union