Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [551]
“Mr. Lincoln…his administration”: Swett to TW, December 10, 1860, reprinted in ibid., pp. 301–02.
“present unsettled…a few days ago”: WHS to AL, December 16, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Weed arrived in Springfield: Entry for December 20, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 302.
uncovered…“the rising sun!”: Newspaper clipping, Rochester, N.Y., Weed Papers.
“took to each other…of a nation”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 294–95.
conversation between Weed and Lincoln: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 606–11; Swett, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 293–94; see also Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1878.
“made strong opposition”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 294.
“more than any one…to Mr. Seward”: GW to Isaac N. Arnold, November 27, 1872, folder 1, Isaac Newton Arnold Papers, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill.
Far better than Welles: Entry for December 27, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76; NYTrib, June 25, 1877.
disingenuously claimed…“unfit personally”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 294.
Hamlin preferred: Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. II, p. 375.
Lincoln claimed…“and not theirs”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 82.
“an attractive figure-head…secretary of the navy”: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, p. 611.
“Has he been…Blair, Sr.?”: Ibid., p. 607.
regret his selection…“he would appoint him”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 294.
“You seem to forget…and ballasted”: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, p. 610.
“capable in the…for himself”: TW in Albany Evening Journal, quoted in Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 261.
“In one aspect…in the other”: TW to WHS, December 25, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
he had imagined…“for him but acceptance”: Entry for December 27, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
“after due reflection…to accept”: WHS to AL, December 28, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“I have advised…freedom and my country”: WHS to FAS, December 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 487.
“In these troublous…here at once”: AL to SPC, December 31, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 168.
“they should be placed…been your friends”: Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
“from very strong and unexpected quarters”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, November 27, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 145.
Cameron to Springfield: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, p. 25.
“The unexpected arrival”…unsavory reputation: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, pp. 45–46 (quotes p. 45).
reached the Chenery House: Entry for December 30, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 304.
“Shall I have the honor…to call here?”: Simon Cameron to AL, December 30, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
conversation between Lincoln and Cameron: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 25–26.
“an exuberant school boy”: Erwin Stanley Bradley, Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Secretary of War: A Political Biography (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), p. 168.
“There is an odor…such an appointment”: Lyman Trumbull to AL, December 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“Since seeing you…tendered you”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 3, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 169–70.
“travel-stained…from Columbus”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 222 (quote); entry for January 4, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 3.
meeting between Lincoln and Chase…“offer it to you”: Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 201.
“I frankly said…could give”: SPC to George Opdyke, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
“without hesitation…the advice of friends”: SPC to George Opdyke, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
Chase attended Sunday church: Entry for January 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809–1865. Vol. III: 1861–1865, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), p. 4.
Lincoln meets with Koerner and Judd: Entry for January 6, 1861, ibid.,