Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [543]
A Committee of Twelve…“consumed in talking”: Charles P. Smith, “The Nomination of Lincoln,” undated pamphlet from the Collections of the New Jersey State Library, Archives & History Division, Trenton, N.J., copy in Davis Papers, ICHi.
Greeley at convention: Van Deusen, Horace Greeley, pp. 245–48; Smith, “The Nomination of Lincoln.”
“cannot concentrate…will be nominated”: May 17 telegram from Horace Greeley, reprinted in NYTrib, May 18, 1860.
“every one of the…freely as water”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 160–61.
“Four years ago…courage and confidence”: TW, quoted in Addison G. Procter, Lincoln and the Convention of 1860: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, April 4, 1918 (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1918), pp. 6–7.
“I suppose…confirm what I say”: Horace Greeley, quoted in Procter, Lincoln and the Convention of 1860, p. 8.
“each of whom…Greeley had said”: Ibid.
“I know my people well…slavery where it is”: Henry Lane, quoted in ibid., pp. 12–13.
few were aware of his estrangement: Henry J. Raymond, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 274.
“While professing so high…had his revenge”: Auburn [N.Y.] Daily Advertiser, May 31, 1860.
“In all candor…to the same effect”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, pp. 88–89.
He was much too conservative…officially enlisted: Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., May 19, 1860; Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, p. 427.
“If united…and the West”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 148.
Any hope of persuading…“promote his interest”: John McLean, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 146.
“There was no unity…pitiable to behold”: Statement of Willard Warner, paraphrased in Columbus [Ohio] Gazette, May 25, 1860.
“If the Ohio delegation…[been] relied upon”: Francis M. Wright to SPC, May 21, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“There are lots…lukewarm friends”: Erastus Hopkins to SPC, May 17, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“Men gather…the big bell rings”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 143, 163, 149–50.
“You know how…no positive objection”: AL to Richard M. Corwine, May 2, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 47.
“to antagonize no one”: King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 136.
“relative ability…man who could win”: Stampp, “The Republican National Convention of 1860,” in Stampp, The Imperiled Union, p. 160.
“No men ever worked…two hours a night”: Leonard Swett to Josiah Drummond, May 27, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
“Most of them…political morality”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. 1, p. 266.
“typically methodical way”: King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 135 (quote); see also p. 136, and chapter 11 generally.
“a drawback…Gov. Seward”: AL, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 145.
“It all worked…was Indiana”: Leonard Swett to Josiah H. Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, p. 71.
“the whole of Indiana…to get”: AL to Richard M. Corwine, May 2, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 47 (quote); AL to Cyrus M. Allen, May 1, 1860, in ibid., p. 46.
Claims have been made…Caleb Smith: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 214–15.
No deal was needed: Donald, Lincoln, p. 249.
Indiana…to back Lincoln: John D. Defrees to Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 148.
Committee of Twelve…“general good of the party”: Smith, “The Nomination of Lincoln,” Davis Papers, ICHi.
Davis had previously…might be procured: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.
“Make no…bind me”: AL, Endorsement on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat, May 17, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 50.
“Everybody was mad…‘he must ratify it’”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.
The Blairs had supposedly promised: Clay, The Life of Cassius Marcellus Clay, pp. 244–46; Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 68.
“oceans of money”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.
“get every member…appointment”: King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 140.
“My assurance to them…as much as possible”: Leonard Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers,