Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [612]
“not let even…share of his resentment”: EBL to SPL, [October 24, 1863], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 316.
He wrote a letter to Monty…“skill and usefulness”: AL to MB, November 2, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 555.
a gentle letter of reprimand…“would not cure the bite”: AL to James M. Cutts, Jr., October 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 538, and note.
Chase again intervened…eligibility to vote: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 339.
voiced his opposition at Rockville: Speech of Montgomery Blair, reprinted in the Star, October 5, 1863.
it aroused deep hostility…Blair from his cabinet: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 241–43, 248; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 298, 303.
Lincoln refused to support…“against him”: “22 October 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 97.
Noah Brooks attended a mass rally…“utterances”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, pp. 246–48.
Chase was a featured…his “fossil theories”: Ibid., pp. 247–49.
Chase was elated…“a Cardinal principle”: SPC to Horace Greeley, October 31, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
Worried that Lincoln’s…“were producing logical results”: Leonard Swett to WHH, January 17, 1866, in HI, pp. 164–65.
“the most truly progressive…struggles with them”: John W. Forney, quoted in “31 December 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 135.
CHAPTER 22: “STILL IN WILD WATER”
Lincoln was visibly unsettled…his presidential race: Entry for October 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 470.
Civil liberties was also…instituted conscription: William C. Davis, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Free Press, 2002), pp. 174–76, 226.
Toombs accused…“tide of despotism”: Burton J. Hendrick, Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet (New York: Literary Guild of America, 1939), p. 417.
concerned about Ohio: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 14–15.
Lincoln was disheartened…“to the country”: Entry for October 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 470.
In Pennsylvania…“of the United States”: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 685.
the Woodward campaign…“voice & my vote”: GBM to Charles J. Biddle, October 12, 1863, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 559.
took steps to ensure…return home to vote: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 16.
If the president granted…Union ticket: SPC, “Going Home to Vote,” p. 22; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 336.
the journalist Whitelaw Reid: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 336; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 401.
Chase in Columbus…“misfortunes averted”: SPC, “Going Home to Vote,” p. 4.
“I come not to speak…and without exceptions”: Ibid., pp. 5, 13.
In public squares…“turn to Ohio”: Daily Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, October 13, 1863; SPC, “Going Home to Vote,” p. 8 (quote).
begged his audiences…“sixty-five days in the year”: SPC, “Going Home to Vote,” p. 8.
Lincoln took up his usual post: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 14.
a welcome telegram…was counted: SPC to AL, October 14, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
By 5 a.m…. to 100,000: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 603; Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 14.
“Glory to God…saved the Nation”: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 603.
“All honor…foe at the ballot-box”: EMS to John W. Forney, NYT, October 15, 1863.
found him “in good spirits”: Entry for October 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 470.
“No man knows…till he has had it”: AL, quoted in James B. Fry, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, ed. Allen Thorndike Rice (New York: North American Publishing Co., 1886), p. 390.
“all right”…a good secretary: AL, quoted in “18 October 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 93.
“I’m afraid…of the presidency”: Entry for October 17, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 310.
“That visit to the west…saved my country”: Entry for October 20, 1863, in ibid., p. 311.
“it is of the nature…with its victim