Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [549]
“there will be the most…great adroitness”: AL to TW, August 17, 1860, in ibid., pp. 97–98.
“Can you afford…finish the work”: TW to WHS, October 25, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
“the whole audience…tumultuous cheering”: NYTrib, November 3, 1860.
“to stir whatever…the populace”: NYTrib, November 10, 1860.
“was chatting…than the Presidency”: Samuel R. Weed, “Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln,” New York Times Magazine, February 14, 1932, p. 8.
“the candidate…for his own electors”: William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Vol. III (Springfield, Ill.: Herndon’s Lincoln Publishing Co., 1888), p. 467.
“who welcomed him…the Court room”: [JGN to TB?], November 6, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
wild “burst of enthusiasm”: NYTrib, November 10, 1860.
“He said he had…read to the crowd”: Missouri Democrat, reprinted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 9, 1860.
“seemed to understand…with previous elections”: Weed, “Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln,” NYT Magazine, p. 8.
gathered at the telegraph office: Missouri Democrat, reprinted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 9, 1860.
“The news would come…any hurry to hear it”: Weed, “Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln,” NYT Magazine, p. 9.
“We have made steady…victory has been won”: Simeon Draper, quoted in ibid.
“Uncle Abe…I know it”: Lyman Trumbull, quoted in ibid.
“Not too fast…may not be over yet”: Ibid.
a “victory” supper: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 206.
“Don’t wait…before 10 o’clock”: TW, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 218.
“a very happy man…such circumstances?”: AL, quoted by Henry C. Bowen, Recollections, p. 31, reprinted in Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln, p. 345.
“Mary…we are elected!”: Henry C. Bowen, “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” The Independent, April 4, 1895, p. 4.
CHAPTER 10: “AN INTENSIFIED CROSSWORD PUZZLE”
“The excitement…was upon him”: GW to Isaac N. Arnold, November 27, 1872, folder 1, Isaac Newton Arnold Papers, Chicago Historical Society.
the citizens of Springfield…to their homes: William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), p. 6.
“I began at once…the burden”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson. Vol. I: 1861–March 30, 1864, ed. Howard K. Beale (New York: W. W. Norton, 1960), p. 82.
“into its usual quietness”: JGN to TB, November 11, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“This was on…finally selected”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 82.
On a blank card…a former Whig: Enclosure in Kinsley S. Bingham, Solomon Foot, and Zachariah Chandler to AL, January 21, 1861, Lincoln Papers; Donald, Lincoln, pp. 261–62.
“the mad scramble”: Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943; Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1964), p. 3.
“muddy boots…often ringing laughter”: Henry Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61: A Journalist’s Story, ed. Harold G. and Oswald Garrison Villard (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1941; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974), pp. 15, 13.
“showed remarkable tact…always perfect”: Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835–1900. Vol. I: 1835–1862 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1904; New York: Da Capo Press, 1969), pp. 142, 143.
Lincoln’s penchant for telling stories: New York Daily News, reprinted in Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, Ohio, November 20, 1860.
“helped many times…disappointments”: Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 147.
“he is the very…general disposition”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, pp. 39–40.
John Hay: William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), pp. 19, 48–49, 52–53, 68–69, 74, 82, 87; Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 141.
For Mary…exciting time: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 165.
“Is that the old woman”: Villard,