Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [540]
“for a household…attempted to do”: Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories. Salmon P. Chase’s Home Life,” NYTrib, February 15, 1891.
Lincoln was back on the campaign trail: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 124; entry for December 2, 1859, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, pp. 266–67.
“the attempt…electioneering dodge”: “Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 5, 1859, synopsis of speech printed in the Leavenworth Times, December 6, 1859, in CW, III, p. 503.
“make the gallows…the cross”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Courage,” November 7, 1859, lecture in Boston, as reported by the NYTrib, quoted in John McAleer, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1984), p. 532.
“great courage”…“rare unselfishness”: Elwood Free Press on AL, “Speech at Elwood, Kansas,” December 1 [November 30?], 1859, in CW, III, p. 496.
“that cannot…think himself right”: AL, “Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 3, 1859, in ibid., p. 502.
Republican National Committee at Astor House: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 20–21.
“attach more consequence”: AL to Norman B. Judd, December 14, 1859, in CW, III, p. 509.
“good neutral ground…an even chance”: Archie Jones, “The 1860 Republican Convention,” transcript of Chicago station WAAF radio broadcast, May 16, 1960, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill.
“carefully kept…on the nomination”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 285.
“promised that…furnished free”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, December 27, 1859.
Chicago beat St. Louis by a single vote: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 21.
“a cheap excursion…of the State”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 285.
“I like the place…take exception to it”: John Bigelow to WHS, January 18, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“Had the convention…been the nominee”: Charles Gibson, “Edward Bates,” Missouri Historical Society Collections II (January 1900), p. 55.
“there is not…not much of me”: AL to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.
“a wild region…in the woods”: AL, “Autobiography by Abraham Lincoln, enclosed with Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell,” December 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 511.
“If any thing…written by myself”: AL to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 511.
he received an invitation: James A. Briggs to AL, October 12, 1859, Lincoln Papers; Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 10.
“His clothes were travel-stained…for Monday night”: Henry C. Bowen, paraphrased in Henry B. Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1924), pp. 179–80.
“Well, B…. as a man ought to want”: “Recollections of Mr. McCormick,” in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 251 (quote); Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 86. Holzer identifies “B.” as Mayson Brayman.
Lincoln paid a visit…“shorten [his] neck”: AL, quoted in James D. Horan, Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), p. 31. For portrait, see plate 93 in Horan.
weather and attendance: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 202; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 103, 303 n55.
“this western man”: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, p. 173.
Lincoln’s appearance: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 369.
“one of the legs…longer than his sleeves”: Russell H. Conwell, “Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women,” quoted in Wayne Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln. A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1908), p. 308.
had labored to craft his address: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 174–75; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 50–53.
“Our fathers…protection a necessity”: AL, “Address at Cooper Institute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 522, 535.
a “hue and cry…never can be reversed”: AL, “Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February