Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [573]
“most incautious”: EBL to SPL, October 7, 1861, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 83.
“The rebels…for defence”: Entry for September 10 to September 18, 1861, extracts from diary of Montgomery C. Meigs, container 13, Nicolay Papers.
“a full & plain…should be consulted”: MB to AL, September 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Rumors circulated: Entry for December 28, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 217; EBL to SPL, October 19, 1861, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, pp. 88, 90 n2.
“with a view…removal”: NYT, September 17, 1861.
“unbecoming…gentleman”: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 78.
Monty interceded: MB to John C. Frémont, September 20, 1861, copy, reel 21, Blair Family Papers, DLC.
the trial, which would never take place: MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library [hereafter Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC].
“Were you not…proclamation?”: FAS to LW, [c. September 4, 1861], quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 612.
“has cast…step backwards”: Joseph Medill to SPC, September 15, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
“poor white trash”: Benjamin F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, September 23, 1861, reel 1, Papers of Zachariah Chandler, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
“Many blunders…them all”: Douglass’ Monthly (October 1861), pp. 530–31.
Blair and Meigs delivered: Entry for September 18, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 67.
“is determined…Missouri”: MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.
“more damage…can do”: EB to SPC, September 11, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
“distressed & mortified”: EB to James O. Broadhead, September 28, 1861, Broadhead Papers, MoSHi.
“Immense mischief…place of action”: EB to Hamilton Gamble, October 3, 1861, Hamilton Rowan Gamble Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gamble Papers, MoShi].
“I think God…in his Cabinet”: FB to MB, October 7, 1861, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 83–84.
“a letter directing…and conduct”: Simon Cameron to AL, October 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“was very much mortified”…talked with the president: Simon Cameron to AL, October 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“constitution…with its management”: NYT, October 31, 1861. For the report, see Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 540–49.
“yielded to delay…deserve it”: Entry of October 22, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 198–99.
Lincoln dispatched…Swett: Entry for October 24, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 73.
“the most remarkable”…publication: NYT, October 31, 1861.
When Swett reached Missouri: Leonard Swett to AL, November 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“frown came over…‘my lines?’”: General T. I. McKenny, quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, Sangamon Edition (4 vols., n.p.: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), pp. 122–25 (quote p. 124).
“justified…is possible”: NYT, November 7, 1861.
“Slowly…our judgment”: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 31, 1861.
“Lincoln…the whole story”: NYH, November 7, 1861.
“I am…publ[ic] duty”: SPC to Richard Smith, November 11, 1861, reel 18, Chase Papers.
the Confederacy had dispatched…Mason and Slidell: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 308.
Charles Wilkes…Fort Warren in Boston: NYT, November 17 and 19, 1861.
“We do not believe…been found”: NYT, November 17, 1861.
Wilkes was fêted…a great banquet: NYT, November 26 and 27, 1861.
“three cheers…Wilkes”: Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 315.
“great and general satisfaction”: Entry for November 16, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 202.
Chase reportedly…seized the British ship: NYT, November 19, 1861.
“the items…Mason & Slidell!”: AL to Edward Everett, November 18, 1861, in CW, V, p. 26.
“intelligence…Mail