Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [548]
“Remembering that Peter…I will not”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, June 5, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 71.
a humorous fictional dialogue: AL, “Dialogue between Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge,” September 29, 1860, in ibid., pp. 123–24.
“I give the leave…in any respect”: AL to William D. Kelley, October 13, 1860, in ibid., p. 127.
“for your face…like whiskers”: Grace Bedell to AL, October 15, 1860, in ibid., p. 130.
“As to the whiskers…begin it now?”: AL to Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860, in ibid., p. 129.
“Election news…heir apparent”: “Springfield Correspondence, 7 January 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, p. 17.
biased…prospects in each state: AL to John Pettit, September 14, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 115.
“the dry, and irksome…monster meetings”: AL to Henry Wilson, September 1, 1860, in ibid., p. 109.
Schurz’s “excellent plan…than yourself”: AL to Carl Schurz, June 18, 1860, in ibid., p. 78.
He urged Caleb Smith…an Indiana victory: AL to Caleb Smith, [July 23], 1860, in ibid., pp. 87–88.
“Ascertain…commit me to nothing”: AL, “Instructions for John G. Nicolay,” [c. July 16, 1860], in ibid., p. 83.
“Before this reaches…into the news-papers”: AL to Simon Cameron, August 6, 1860, in ibid., p. 91.
Cameron replied…writings: Simon Cameron to AL, August 1, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“I am slow…present & future only”: AL to John M. Pomeroy, August 31, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 103.
“Write Mr. Casey…in that matter”: AL to Leonard Swett, July 16, 1860, in ibid., p. 84.
“After all…Sebastopol we must take”: John Z. Goodrich, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 205.
“such a result…must not allow it”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, September 4, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 110.
“intimating that Douglas…Please write me”: AL to James F. Simmons, August 17, 1860, in ibid., p. 97.
“tomorrow is…of the Country”: David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 158.
“he was trying…the presidential Election”: Ward Hill Lamon to AL, October 10, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“We are all in…be the next Pres’t”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, October 12, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
“I never was better…any trouble”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, October 15, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
With pride…“have the trial”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, October 20, 1860, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 66.
Douglas had been barnstorming…to the South: Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 778–81, 786–97 (quotep. 781).
“the first presidential…in person”: Paul F. Boller, Jr., Presidential Campaigns (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 101.
“Mr. Lincoln is the next…I will go South”: Stephen A. Douglas, quoted in Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 797–98.
“finest hour”: Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 1857–1861, p. 290.
“I believe there is…must be inaugurated”: Stephen A. Douglas, quoted in Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, p. 800.
“The cardinal error…danger of secession”: Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 1857–1861, p. 305.
“we all dwelt in a fool’s Paradise”: Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 1835–1915, p. 69.
“a sort of political…frighten the North”: Donn Piatt, Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union (New York and Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887), p. 30.
“people of the South…of the government”: AL to John B. Fry, August 15, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 95.
“the cry of disunion…‘sway Northern sentiment’”: Nashville Union and American, November 11, 1860, quoted and paraphrased in Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, pp. 352–53.
shrugged…belligerent politicians: Press and Tribune, Chicago, October 3, 1860.
“they cry out…Nobody!”: WHS, “Political Equality the National Idea, Saint Paul, September 18, 1860,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 344.
“misrepresentations…triumph of our party”: FB, et al., to AL, October 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Even John Breckinridge…splitting up the Union: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 341.
“I have a good deal of news…it may be delusive”: AL to John