Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [622]
“People may think…it will kill me”: AL, quoted in Colfax, Life and Principles of Abraham Lincoln, p. 12.
“I saw [Lincoln] walk…and anxious scrutiny”: Colfax in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 337–38.
“any other General…that wins”: “9 May 1864, Monday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 195.
Lincoln hugged and kissed…“no turning back”: Henry E. Wing, When Lincoln Kissed Me: A Story of the Wilderness Campaign (New York: Eaton & Mains, and Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1913), pp. 12–13, 38–39.
“I propose to fight it out…all summer”: USG to EMS, May 11, 1864, in Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Vol. X, p. 422.
Lincoln’s face lit up…“the secret” to the army’s fortunes: NYT, May 18, 1864.
Chase grew restless…retained the hope: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 364.
Weed had repeatedly warned…Treasury employees: JGN to AL, March 30, 1864; TW to AL, March 25, 1864; W. W. Williams to TW, March 25, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
corrupt Treasury agents…“inevitably sink”: TW to FWS, June 2, 1864, reel 84, Seward Papers.
Frank Blair had resigned…Treasury agent: Leonard B. Wurthman, Jr., “Frank Blair: Lincoln’s Congressional Spokesman,” Missouri Historical Review LXIV (April 1970), pp. 278–79, 284–86; “Charges Against a Member,” April 23, 1864, Congressional Globe, 38th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 1827–29; Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 192.
he began by calmly…for the presidency: FB remarks before the House of Representatives, April 23, 1864, Congressional Globe, 38th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 1828–32 (quote p. 1829).
Elizabeth Blair…“revenge is suicide”: EBL to SPL, April 23 and June 13, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, pp. 369, 392.
“mendacious slanders”: Thomas Heaton to SPC, April 29, 1864, reel 33, Chase Papers.
“violent and injudicious…with discretion”: Entry for April 28, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 20.
told about the speech…“approval of the President”: Riddle, Recollection of War Times, pp. 267, 268.
He considered Frank Blair…“did while here”: James A. Garfield to J. Harrison Rhodes, April 28, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, Vol. I, p. 376.
Chase told Riddle…“perfectly satisfied”: Riddle, Recollection of War Times, pp. 268, 270–76.
“in the midst…actual din of battle”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 325.
the National Union Convention: Ibid., pp. 332–33. According to Brooks, twenty-three states “were represented without contest,” and the contested delegations of Missouri and Tennessee were allowed to vote. Unofficial representatives from Confederate states and the territories attended but were not included on the official roll.
David Davis…“no one is necessary”: David Davis to AL, June 2, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Horace Greeley…“so heavy investments”: Horace Greeley, quoted in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, pp. 320–21.
“popular instinct…the popular will”: William Dennison, et al., to AL, June 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“the country at large…but Lincoln’s”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 140.
gathered in Cleveland’s: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 177–80.
with a platform…“among the soldiers”: Resolutions of the “Radical Democracy” party platform, quoted in NYT, June 1, 1864.
in the telegraph office…“four hundred men”: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 194–95 (quote p. 195).
“renomination…the odd bits of gossip”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, p. 141.
was initially confronted…“short-haired women”: Clark E. Carr, quoted in Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 192.
the radicals had tacitly…unanimous: Ibid., pp. 195, 196.
the tumultuous applause…“defense of their country”: “Platform of the Union National Convention,” quoted in note 1 of AL, “Reply to the Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination,” June 9, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 381–82.
“The enthusiasm…Lincoln was spoken”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 335.
“a purge of any”…platform in full: Sixth plank of Union Convention platform, paraphrased