Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [547]
“was about to take…depths of discouragement”: Procter, Lincoln and the Convention of 1860, p. 16.
John Nicolay…“life ran down”: Helen Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1949; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971), pp. vii (quote), 27, 34, 36.
“He sat down…could have desired”: Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
“can not only discuss…dress a deer-skin”: Missouri Democrat, reprinted in NYTrib, September 29, 1860.
“an air of quiet…unflinchingly”: Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
“Ten thousand inquiries…create the necessity”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 23, 1860.
“Whatever of awkwardness…of society”: New York Evening Post, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, May 24, 1860.
“a very handsome…sparkling talker”: Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, May 29, 1860.
“a Man of the People”: NYTrib, May 26, 1860, quoted in Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 1857–1861, p. 274.
“log-cabin, hard-cider”: Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager, The Growth of the American Republic, 4th edn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1930; 1950), p. 556.
“It has also afforded…be inspired”: Ryland Fletcher, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 169.
a “nullity…a nullity anywhere”: Quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 365.
“here is a stick…in 1825”: NYH, October 20, 1860.
“it would be both…willingly say”: AL to T. Apolion Cheney, August 14, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 93.
“Your letter…I write at all”: AL to Leonard Swett, May 30, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 57.
“he would like…of being lynched”: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 170.
the cohesion of the new Republican Party: Ibid., pp. 21–22.
“our adversaries…to the charge”: AL to Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 86.
this election would not be determined…carefully addressed in the Republican Party platform: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 13 (quote), 148–53.
an entourage: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 461; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 232–33.
“cannons…‘Wide Awakes’”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 461; Oldroyd, Lincoln’s Campaign, pp. 104–07.
“Viewed from…in wild cheerings”: “Springfield Correspondence, 9 August 1860,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, p. 6.
the “Chloroformers”: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 174.
“procession of young men…carts and wagons”: Entry for September 8, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.
“All of this reminded…a gaping crowd”: Ibid.
In St. Paul, Minnesota…steps of the Capitol: Press and Tribune, Chicago, September 24, 1860.
“without repetition…of the auditors”: Fite, The First Presidential Campaign, p. 213.
“the whole population…Well, I ought to”: Supplement to NYT, September 29, 1860.
“where, when…‘this tobacco question’”: Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 1835–1915: An Autobiography, with a Memorial Address Delivered November 17, 1915, by Henry Cabot Lodge (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), pp. 61–62.
“integrity…grandest & highest”: Israel Washburn, Jr., to WHS, November 14, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
“I am sure…taken a-back by”: Richard Blatchford to FAS, October 3, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
“marveled more & more…by any American”: CS to FAS, October 10, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
“Yes Henry is…Is that the word”: FAS to CS, September 5, 1860, reel 20, Sumner Papers.
“There was a rush…Seward was seated”: NYH, October 2, 1860.
“was a revelation…out of place”: Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 1835–1915, pp. 61, 64 (quote).
“Twelve years ago…believed that it would be”: NYH, October 2, 1860.
Lincoln asked…“it already existed”: King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 157.
Seward readily agreed…intercourse with the South: NYT, September 27, 1860; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 233.
“noisy throng…approaching greatness”: Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 1835–1915,