Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [558]
“I am loth…angels of our nature”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—Final Text,” March 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 271.
Lincoln read the speech…left alone: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 208.
the morning newspapers…of his house: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 515.
“I have been…and the free”: L. A. Gobright, Recollection of Men and Things at Washington, During the Third of a Century (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869), p. 291.
“Disappointment!…little Illinois lawyer!”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 221–22.
As the clock…“Hail to the Chief”: Stanley Kimmel, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington (New York: Coward-McCann, 1957), p. 23; Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 402–03.
cheering crowds…throughout the entire route: Julia Taft Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father (Boston: Little, Brown, 1931), pp. 17–18; “The Diary of a Public Man, part III,” North American Review 129 (October 1879), p. 382.
“A sharp, cracking…in the aggregate”: Star, March 4, 1861.
“assume[d] an almost idyllic…large rural village”: Edna M. Colman, Seventy-five Years of White House Gossip: From Washington to Lincoln (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926), pp. 279–81 (first and third quotes attributed by Colman to foreign observer J. G. Kohl).
platform seating; Baker…introduced the president-elect: NYT, March 5, 1861; Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 45–46.
Douglas reached over…his own lap: “The Diary of a Public Man, part III,” NAR (1879), p. 383; Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 46.
outdoor venues of the Western states: NYT, March 5, 1861; Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 44.
“no purpose…better angels of our nature”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—Final Text,” March 4, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 263–66, 269, 271.
“The Mansion…dinner prepared”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 46.
“If you are as happy…this country”: James Buchanan, quoted in Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, pp. 137–38.
hasty unpacking…dressed for the Inaugural Ball: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 209.
Inaugural Ball: NYH, March 6, 1861; NYT, March 6, 1861; Colman, Seventy-five Years of White House Gossip, p. 268.
“because of…in its decoration”: Colman, Seventy-five Years of White House Gossip, p. 268.
Brightened by…good deal of space: NYH, March 6, 1861.
“Dressed all in blue…and pearls”: Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 46.
she danced the quadrille…her exhausted husband: Star, March 5, 1861; Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 46.
“What an inappreciable…5th of March”: Entry for March 4, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“seven days and seventeen hours”: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, p. 140.
“grand…in every respect”: NYTrib, March 7, 1861.
“convincing…manner”: New York Evening Post, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.
“eminently…under the Constitution”: Philadelphia Bulletin, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.
“the work…its contents”: Commercial Advertiser, N.Y., reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.
“wretchedly…unstatesmanlike paper”: Hartford Times, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.
“It is he…Civil War”: Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., quoted in Albany Evening Journal, March 5, 1861.
“couched in the cool…civil war”: Richmond Enquirer, reprinted in NYTrib, March 7, 1861.
“might as well…inevitable”: Herald, Wilmington, N.C., quoted in Star, March 7, 1861.
“won some favorable…slave states”: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 248.
“without getting…can stand”: WHS to FAS, March 8, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 518.
“been fully justified…my country”: Entry for March 4, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
Radicals…considered an appeasing tone: T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), p. 22.
Frederick Douglass…cruel slaveholders: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, introduction by Houston A. Baker,