Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [552]
“I am in a quandary…at the convention”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 114.
“It seems to me…brought to co-operate”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, January 7, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 171.
“under great anxiety…I consistently can”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 13, 1861, in ibid., p. 174.
“were entirely free & unreserved”: SPC to James S. Pike, January 10, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
“What is done…to Springfield”: SPC to Hiram Barney, January 8, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
had convinced Lincoln…official offers: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 220.
“I think that in allowing…and accept it”: SPC to Elizabeth Ellicott Pike, January 27, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
“a snowballing process”: Elbert B. Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975), p. 138.
“desired by all…of the multitude”: Charleston Courier, quoted in Richmond Enquirer, November 16, 1860.
the election of a…the John Brown raid: Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan, pp. 129–32.
The bachelor president…“let out from school”: Sara Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War, rev. and enlarged edn. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904; New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905; 1908), pp. 110–11 (quotes p. 111).
“looked stunned…of his chair”: Entry for December 20, 1860, in E. B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), p. 13.
“both the authority…integrity”: [JGN to TB?], November 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“indefatigable…authorities, etc.”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, p. 37.
willing to reduce…“a period of years”: AL, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 161.
“a position towards…for his election”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 105.
He was determined to stand…impact on the South: Donald, Lincoln, p. 260.
“I could say nothing…clamor all the louder”: AL to Nathaniel P. Paschall, November 16, 1860, in CW, IV, pp. 139–40.
“each and all of the States…any administration”: AL, “Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull’s Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” November 20, 1860, in ibid., p. 141.
“On the contrary…war against them”: AL to Henry J. Raymond, November 28, 1860, in ibid., p. 146.
“has eyes…does not hear”: AL, quoted in Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 213.
“blaze of passion…offended deity”: William Smedes to Henry J. Raymond, December 8, 1860, enclosed in Raymond to AL, December 14, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“What a very mad-man…forgery out and out”: AL to Henry J. Raymond, December 18, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 156.
the “Great Secession Winter”: See Henry Adams, The Great Secession Winter of 1860–61 and Other Essays, ed. George Hochfield (New York: Sagamore Press, 1958).
“no compromise…any time hereafter”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1860, in CW, IV, pp. 149–50.
“fugitive slaves…amongst us”: AL to WHS, February 1, 1861, in ibid., p. 183.
“the Constitution should”…Fugitive Slave Law be repealed: Footnote to AL, “Resolutions Drawn up for Republican Members of Senate Committee of Thirteen,” [December 20, 1860], in ibid., p. 157n.
Seward agreed…John Crittenden: WHS to AL, December 26, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
The Crittenden Compromise: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, pp. 531–32.
“the slightest…Loyalty stronger”: WHS to AL, December 26, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
three federal forts…all three were in its domain: Entry for December 22, 1860, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 14.
three commissioners…Buchanan administration: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 95.
“From the first…the federal government”: JGN to TB, December 30, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“to surrender…hang him!”: JGN to [TB?], December 22, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“to either hold… may require”: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, December 21, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 159.
“vying”…bolster Buchanan’s will: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 91, 93 (quote).
Anderson preempted…Castle Pinckney: Entries for December 26 and 27, 1860, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 15–16.
Buchanan agreed…and headed north: Entries for January 2, 5, 8, and 9, 1861,