Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [542]
he did help to mediate: Don E. Fehrenbacher, “The Judd-Wentworth Feud,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XLV (Autumn 1952), pp. 203, 204.
“I am not…end of the vineyard?”: AL to Norman B. Judd, February 9, 1860, in CW, III, p. 517.
a resounding editorial: See Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 148–50.
“You saw what…Was it satisfactory?”: Norman B. Judd to AL, February 21, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“That Abraham Lincoln…a unit for him”: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 186.
“what is to be…reverse the decree”: MTL interview, September 1866, in HI, p. 360 n4.
CHAPTER 8: SHOWDOWN IN CHICAGO
Forty thousand visitors: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 344: Buffalo Morning Express, May 16, 1860, David Davis Papers, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill. [hereafter Davis Papers, ICHi].
trains…carried the delegates: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 212.
youngest political party…fastest-growing city: Jones, “The 1860 Republican Convention.”
crowds gathered…“swung their hats”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 15, 1860.
the one that began its journey: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 12, 1860.
“when ‘a mile a minute’…in their boots”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 16, 1860.
prizefighters hired “to keep the peace…broken heads”: Clark, “Lincoln’s Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl,” Putnam’s, p. 537.
“such refreshments…among the opponents”: Buffalo Morning Express, May 15, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
“almost ridiculous”: Anonymous writer, quoted in As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673–1933, ed. Bessie Louise Pierce (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933), p. 151.
“growth is…a word”: James Stirling, quoted in ibid., p. 123.
“a military post and fur station”: A Guide to the City of Chicago (Chicago: Zell & Co., 1868), pp. 32–33.
population of more than a hundred thousand: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 207.
“the first grain…all of Europe”: A Strangers’ and Tourists’ Guide to the City of Chicago (Chicago: Relig. Philo. Pub. Assoc., 1866), p. 24.
“the first lumber-market in the world”: Anonymous writer, quoted in As Others See Chicago, p. 151.
“miles of wharves…pursuit of trade”: A Strangers’ and Tourists’ Guide to the City of Chicago, p. 19.
a bold decision to elevate every building: Anonymous writer, quoted in As Others See Chicago, pp. 157–58.
“Our city has been chosen”…Lavish preparations: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 12, 1860.
“A most magically…the eager crowd”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 15, 1860.
Accommodations, restaurants: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 212–13; Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 9, 14, and 17, 1860.
The most popular luncheon: Chicago Daily Evening Journal, May 15, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
As packed trains continued…to forty thousand: Buffalo Morning Express, May 15, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 222.
“I thought…some popular eruption”: Daily [Ind.] Journal, May 17, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
“with a zest…unfeeling bosom”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 17, 1860.
“The city is thronged…shunned and condemned”: Chicago Daily Evening Journal, May 15, 1860.
If this new party…the presidency: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 140.
“who crowded…standing room”: Chicago Daily Evening Journal, May 16, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
When the big doors…date for the afternoon: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 147–48; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 246–47; Jones, “The 1860 Republican Convention”; Clark, “Lincoln’s Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl,” Putnam’s, p. 537 (quote).
Exactly at noon…officially began: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 17, 1860.
“no body of men…in [their] faith”: Governor Morgan, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, pp. 27–28; Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 17, 1860.
an inclusive platform…a two-thirds vote: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 156–58, 159.
“The great body…cardinal doctrines”: Pike, “Mr. Seward’s Defeat,” May 20, 1860, from NYTrib, reprinted in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 517.
a move