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“It is by no means…not go at all”: GW to Edgar T. Welles, February 27, 1861, reel 18, Welles Papers.
“I desire to see you here forthwith”: Hannibal Hamlin to GW, February 28, 1861, quoted in Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 321.
In his hurry to catch the train…the navy portfolio: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 321–22.
“The struggle for Cabinet…hourly”: Star, March 1, 1861.
conflict over Chase and Seward: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 237.
Seward sent a note to Lincoln: Entry for March 2, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 23.
“I can’t afford…the first trick”: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. III (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 371.
“It is the subject…the same direction”: AL to WHS, March 4, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 273.
“The President…the country to chance”: WHS to FAS, March 8, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 518.
Lincoln sent Chase’s nomination…to the Senate: Entries for March 3, 5, and 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 24, 26; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 234.
“Ever conscious…of protocol”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 238.
“referred to the…finally yielded”: SPC to Trowbridge, quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 207.
“The construction of…only by experience”: The States and Union, Washington, D.C., February 26, 1861.
Lincoln’s “first decision…been nominated”: “Campaign of 1860 & Journey to Washington,” container 9, Nicolay Papers.
James Buchanan…“deepened party divisions”: Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part I: Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos, 1857–1859, new introduction by James M. McPherson (New York: 1978; New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992), p. 67.
“he must risk…dangers of rebellion”: “Campaign of 1860 & Journey to Washington,” container 9, Nicolay Papers.
asked Lincoln why…“of their services”: Joseph Medill, quoted in H. I. Cleveland, “Booming the First American President: A Talk with Abraham Lincoln’s Friend, the Late Joseph Medill,” Saturday Evening Post 172, August 5, 1899, p. 85.
For further analysis of the making of the cabinet, see Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (n.p.: University Press of Kansas, 1994), pp. 21–45.
CHAPTER 12: “MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY”
Mary the night before the inaugural: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 168.
strangers swarming…streets below: Star, March 4, 1861.
“Lincoln often resorted…or argument”: JGN, “Some Incidents in Lincoln’s Journey from Springfield to Washington,” in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 107.
out of four documents: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 386.
“such a crowd…about him”: Orville H. Browning, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 6.
Browning focused on one imprudent passage: WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 322.
“threat, or menace…palpably in the wrong”: Orville H. Browning to AL, February 17, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“strong and conclusive”: WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 321.
“bound by duty…shift his position”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—First Edition and Revisions,” January 1861, in CW, IV, p. 250.
“exclusive and defiant…negro equality”: Entry for May 19, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 129.
“give such advantages…exercise of power”: WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, pp. 320, 321.
“treasonable”…would only “aggravate the dispute”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—First Edition and Revisions,” January 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 253 n32, 257 n67, 260, 260 n85.
“to the effect…and irrevocable”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—Final Text,” March 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 270.
“With you… ‘or a sword?’”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—First Edition and Revisions,” January 1861, in ibid., p. 261.
“to meet…cheerful confidence”: WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 321.
“I close…angel of the