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for a celebratory march…“a little too far”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 164.
had manufactured duplicate tickets: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 160–61.
“it was part of…the Convention”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, p. 72.
friends and supporters from all over the state: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 160–61.
“by a deafening shout”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, p. 72.
“loud and long”: Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860.
“appalled us a little”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, p. 72.
“If Mr. Seward’s name…far and wide”: NYT, May 21, 1860.
“tremendous applause…Lincoln’s favor”: Henry Raymond article, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 276.
“cold when compared”: NYT, May 21, 1860.
“trial of lungs”: Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860; NYH, May 19, 1860; NYT, May 19, 1860.
“The shouting was…infernal intensity”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 165.
“five thousand…the scene unnoticed”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, p. 72.
“Abe Lincoln…let us ballot!”: NYH, May 19, 1860; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
“This was not…it had its weight”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, pp. 72–73.
results of the first ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 167.
“This solid vote…it was given”: Ibid., p. 166.
“no pivotal state…been delivered”: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 112.
results of the second ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 169.
“startling…of thunder”: Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 264.
results of the third ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 170.
“There was a pause…ticks of a watch”: Ibid., p. 171.
“A profound stillness fell upon the Wigwam”: Unidentified spectator, quoted in Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 1857–1861, new introduction by JamesM. McPherson (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992), p. 260.
“rose to their feet…and again”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860.
“Great men…night of struggle”: Clark, “Lincoln’s Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl,” Putnam’s, p. 538.
he, too, could not restrain his tears: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 9.
“the great disappointment of his life”: Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1878.
“her first…are themselves forgotten”: Austin Blair, quoted in Albany Evening Journal, May 23, 1860, in Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 173; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 292; Carl Schurz “Speeches at the Chicago Convention,” quoted in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 682.
“with the success…highest honor”: Carl Schurz, “Speeches at the Chicago Convention,” quoted in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 682.
“Mounting a table…clenched nervously”: NYT, May 21, 1860.
“Gentlemen…Republican party: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
“the spectator…noble man indeed”: NYT, May 21, 1860.
A man stationed on the roof…Cannons were fired: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 171–72.
“between 20,000…shouting at once”: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
“The Press and Tribune…windows and doors”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860.
Seward received the news…“on the next ballot”: Stanton, Random Recollections, pp. 215–16 (quote p. 216).
“rightly [judged] that…to bring”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 452.
turned “as pale as ashes”: Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 216.
“that it was no ordinary…and irrevocable”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 452.
“The sad tidings…clouded brow”: Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 216.
“of his sanguine…Few men can”: Entry for May 19, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.
“he took the blow…family and the world”: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 228, 229.
“Father told Mother…unselfish coolness”: Entry for May 18, 1860, Fanny Seward diary, Seward