Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [539]
Bates himself…“a good many papers”: Entry of April 7, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 118.
“knowing the fickleness…a failure”: Entry of February 28, 1860, in ibid., pp. 105–06.
“neither on the left…dead center”: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 147.
“fairly headed off…of ultimate extinction”: AL to John L. Scripps, June 23, 1858, in CW, II, p. 471.
He arranged to publish: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 128, 137, 171; Donald, Lincoln, p. 237.
nearly two dozen speeches: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, pp. 143–44; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, chapter 3.
“I think it is…into Liberty”: James A. Briggs to AL, November 1, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
The crowds that greeted…“many a day”: Janesville Gazette, quoted in Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 110–11 (quote p. 110).
“Douglasism…of Republicanism”: AL to SPC, September 21, 1859, in CW, III, p. 471.
stop was Cincinnati: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 103–07.
“greeted with…rising star”: Dickson, “Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,” Harper’s New Monthly (1884), p. 65.
Lincoln’s speech in Cincinnati: AL, “Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio,” September 17, 1859, in CW, III, p. 454.
“as an effort…had ever heard”: Cincinnati Gazette, reprinted in Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., October 7, 1859.
Lincoln’s crowded schedule…“the women come”: Joshua F. Speed to AL, September 22, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“Your visit to Ohio…in your favor”: Samuel Galloway to AL, October 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“We must take…are my choice”: Samuel Galloway to AL, July 23, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“to hedge against…we shall disagree”: AL to Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859, in CW, III, pp. 390–91.
Colfax appreciated…“throughout the Union”: Schuyler Colfax to AL, July 14, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“with foolish pikes”: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1927; 1955), p. 52.
John Brown at Harpers Ferry: See chapter 19 of Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 290–306.
“I am waiting…& of humanity”: John Brown to his family, November 30, 1859, quoted in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800–1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910), p. 551.
the dignity…eloquence of his statements: Villard, John Brown, 1800–1859, pp. 538–39.
His death…“resolutions were adopted”: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, p. 378.
“sent a shiver of fear…woman, and child”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, October 22, 1859.
“Harper’s Ferry…dissolution must ensue”: Richmond Enquirer, November 25, 1859.
“like a great…that abyss”: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 309.
“Weird John Brown”: Herman Melville, “The Portent,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, reprinted in The Poems of Herman Melville, rev. edn., ed. Douglas Robillard (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 2000), p. 53.
“I do not exaggerate…in great numbers”: Robert Bunch, December 9, 1859, quoted in Laura A. White, “The South in the 1850’s as Seen by British Consuls,” Journal of Southern History I (February 1935), p. 44.
“for seditious…in a good cause”: Editor’s description of St. Louis News article of November 23, 1859, pasted in entry of November 23, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 65.
“the natural fruits…his subordinates”: Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, December 16, 1859.
“one hundred gentlemen”…and Colfax: Advertisement by “Richmond,” quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 440.
“The first overt act…the Shenandoah”: NYH, October 19, 1859.
“necessary and just”: WHS, “The State of the Country,” February 29, 1860, in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 637.
“seeking to plunge…universal condemnation”: Albany Evening Journal, October 19, 1859.
“the wild extravagance…a madman”: Entry of October 25, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 50–51.
He discussed the incident…“his [dagger]”: Entry of November