Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [577]
“If the new year…to be expected”: Entry for January 1862, in Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, p. 137.
Seward questioned whether…“to Mr. Cameron”: Maunsell B. Field, Memories of Many Men and of Some Women: Being Personal Recollections of Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes, Presidents, Statesmen, Authors, and Artists, at Home and Abroad, During the Last Thirty Years (New York: Harper & Bros., 1874), pp. 266–67.
Lincoln’s initial preferences…Joseph Holt: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 116.
West Point graduate Montgomery Blair…“sound judgment”: Gideon Welles, “Narrative of Events,” in “Three Manuscripts of Gideon Welles,” comp. A. Howard Meneely, American Historical Review 31 (April 1926), p. 491.
Seward would never forget: Wilson, “Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly (1870), p. 465.
“to be loved…power to express”: EMS to SPC, December 2, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“He puts his whole…upon the issue”: Philadelphia Press, January 20, 1862.
an uncharacteristically brusque letter: Memorandum of conversation between SPC and J. W. Schuckers, January 22, 1871, Papers of Jacob William Schuckers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
“expressed a desire…minister to Russia”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 11, 1862, reel 8, Papers of Simon Cameron, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Cameron Papers, DLC].
to have wept…“personal degradation”: Recollection of Alexander McClure, in Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 234.
Chase drove Cameron…“to all concerned”: Entry for January 12, 1862, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 325–26.
Lincoln agreed to withdraw his terse letter: A. K. McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollections of War and Politics During the Lincoln Administration, 4th edn. (Philadelphia: Times Publishing Co., 1892; Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), p. 165.
“gratify…could render at home”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 11, 1862, reel 8, Cameron Papers, DLC. For Cameron’s resignation letter, see Simon Cameron to AL, January 11, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
Cameron expressed his fervent opinion: Simon Cameron to Frank A. Flower, March 6, 1887, reel 16, Cameron Papers, DLC.
Lincoln asked George Harding…“of the three”: Charles F. Benjamin, quoted in Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 136.
Ellen…“objected to his acceptance”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 153.
diminish the lifestyle of the Stanton family: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 137.
“long by noble deeds”: SPC to EMS, January 9, 1848, reel 6, Chase Papers.
He accepted the post…“swamped at once”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 154.
“Strange”…no one but Seward: Entry for January 13, 1862, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 226.
Welles heard…“Lincoln’s confidence”: Welles, “Narrative of Events,” AHR (1926), p. 488; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 234 (quote).
Welles had never even met Stanton: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 54.
Stanton’s nomination…he would arrange a meeting: Francis Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1907), p. 230.
After a lengthy…“the negro question”: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in ibid., p. 231.
“Not only was…the real cause”: WHS to home, January 15, 1862, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 46.
the House Committee…rotten food: NYT, February 6, 1862.
“resolved to advise…unsound provisions”: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, February 1, 1862.
“highly injurious to the public service”: House resolution of April 30, 1862, quoted in AL, “To the Senate and House of Representatives,” May 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 243.
He wrote a long public letter…“was committed”: AL, “To the Senate and House of Representatives,” May 26, 1862, in ibid., p. 243.
“one of the most intimate…personal friends”: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. V, p. 130.
Most other men…“incur responsibility”: Simon Cameron to AL, June 26, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“an entirely new régime”…removed many of Cameron’s people: NYT, January 23, 1862.
The day after…“she never