Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [564]
“No despatches…are prisoners”: Entry for April 20, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 127.
“rebels are at…calm & conceal it”: Hiram Barney to SPC, April 21, 1861, reel 15, Chase Papers.
to accompany Major Robert Anderson…with their relieved father: Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories,” NYTrib, April 5, 1891.
These “were terrible days of suspense”…let her join him: Entry for May 19, 1861, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“It is hard…life is in danger”: FAS to WHS, April [27? 1861], reel 114, Seward Papers.
“a day of gloom and doubt”: “24 April 1861, Wednesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 11.
staring out the window…“Why don’t they come!”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, p. 152.
“I don’t believe…Northern realities”: “24 April 1861, Wednesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 11.
“to arrest…not be justifiable”: AL to Winfield Scott, April 25, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 344.
“the first of the redeemed”: “1 May 1861, Wednesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 16.
If resistance along…“for the public safety”: AL to Winfield Scott, April 27, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 347.
“arrest, and detain…to the public safety”: AL, “Message to Congress in Special Session,” July 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 429.
Seward later claimed…“further hesitation”: Carpenter, “A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.
Taney blasted Lincoln: Hon. Sherrill Halbert, “The Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus by President Lincoln,” American Journal of Legal History 2 (April 1958), pp. 97–100.
Bates, though reluctant to oppose Taney: Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 145, 147.
“in a time…the insurgents”: EB to AL, July 5, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
As chief executive…“one be violated?”: AL, “Message to Congress in Special Session,” July 4, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 430.
“grave threats…extravagant to endure”: Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting opinion in Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives’ Association, 489 U.S. 602 (1989), text available through Legal Information Institute website, Cornell Law School, www.law.cornell.edu (accessed June 2003).
“government will…be less liberty”: GW to Mary Jane Welles, May 5, 1861 (transcript), reel 19, Welles Papers.
“steps and balconies”…Mary and her friends watched: NYT, May 1, 1861.
“go down to Charleston…an Illinois yell”: “25 April 1861, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 11.
more than eight thousand troops were in Washington: WHS to FAS, April 26, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 559.
He did not, however, grant her request: FAS to WHS, April [27? 1861], reel 114, Seward Papers.
almost completed…“at all hours”: Anna Wharton Seward to FAS, April 28, 1861, reel 116, Seward Papers.
“immense sacrifice…awaits the oppressors”: FAS to WHS, April [28? 1861], reel 114, Seward Papers.
“there would be…serenely adjusted”: Conversation between WHS and Charles King, reported in entry of May 20, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 144.
“to disturb as little…of the people”: Entry of April 15, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 183.
a “fatal error…of the North”: MB to AL, May 16, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“I consider…to govern themselves”: “7 May, Tuesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 20.
John Stuart Mill…“the civilized world”: John Stuart Mill, quoted in McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 550.
“the dissolution…established in America”: The Earl of Shrewsbury, quoted in ibid., p. 551.
“It is of infinite…the various parts”: George Washington, “Farewell Address,” September 17, 1796, in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. I (New York: Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897), p. 207.
“a mortar battery…assassination suspicion”: “19 April 1861, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 2–3.
“Thousands of soldiers…to feel secure”: MTL to Mrs. Samuel H. Melvin, April 27, 1861, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 86.
“The intense…around the city”: Elizabeth Grimsley