Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [610]
“would have been a terrible disaster”: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, p. 318.
“The country does…nights work”: Entry for September 23, 1863, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 453.
affectionately call his “Mars”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 400.
“esteem and affection…French comic opera”: Benjamin, “Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), pp. 768, 760–61.
“No two men were…a necessity to each other”: New York Evening Post, July 13, 1891.
“in dealing with the public…than his heart”: A. E. Johnson, opinion cited in Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, p. 389.
the story of a congressman…“step over and see him”: Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872, pp. 211–12.
“remarkable passages…at Cincinnati”: EMS, quoted in Parkinson to Beveridge, May 28, 1923, container 292, Beveridge Papers, DLC.
“Few war ministers…for Mr. Lincoln”: “The Late Secretary Stanton,” Army and Navy Journal, January 1, 1870, p. 309.
When Stanton was eighteen…near death from cholera: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 36.
he insisted on including…to stand guard: Joseph Buchanan and William Stanton Buchanan, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 39, 40.
Oh! Why should the spirit…: William Knox, “Mortality,” quoted in Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 135.
He could recite from memory…“in the English language”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 59.
The mossy marbles rest: Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Last Leaf,” in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1892), p. 4.
he had written…“he should be honored?”: EMS, “Our Admiration of Military Character Unmerited,” 1831, reel 1, Stanton Papers, DLC.
an army of more than 2 million men: Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman, eds., The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (New York: Grand Central Press/Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 376.
“There could be no greater…to eternity”: EMS, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
“Doesn’t it strike you…flowing all about me?”: AL quoted in Louis A. Warren, Lincoln’s Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 1816–1830 (New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1959), p. 225 n29.
an audience to a group of Quakers: AL to Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 535.
“If I had had…still governs it”: AL, quoted in Eliza P. Gurney, copy of interview with AL, [October 26, 1862], Lincoln Papers.
“On principle…no mortal could stay”: AL to Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 535.
Stanton still wrote…“‘our love in two’”: EMS to SPC, March 7, 1863, Chase Papers, Phi.
Stanton would ask Chase to stand: EMS to SPC, December 30, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.
“It is painful…after concurrence, action”: SPC to George Wilkes, August 27, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
Radicals insisted…both the Union and emancipation: Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 35–50, 60–62.
“standard-bearer…of the Radicals”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 236.
Chase’s desire…proclaim his campaign: Ibid., p. 237.
he wrote hundreds of letters…Lincoln administration: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 400.
“I should fear nothing…management of the War”: SPC to Edward D. Mansfield, October 18, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
“If I were myself…man should be had”: SPC to William Sprague, November 26, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.
He was thrilled…on another candidate: Horace Greeley to SPC, September 29, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
“first choice…should receive it”: Edward Jordan to SPC, October 27, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
Governor Dennison alerted him…“like a beaver”: “17 October 1863, Saturday, New York,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 92.
Seward cautioned…“for Mr. Chase”: TW note, quoted in “28 November 1863, Saturday,” in ibid., p. 119.
Samuel Cox…“New England States”: “24 December 1863,