Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [625]
“Very well…save your country”: EMS, quoted in ibid., p. 321.
As he was driven…“danger to the country”: William Pitt Fessenden to Justice Tenney, quoted in ibid., pp. 317–18.
“He is a man…personal integrity”: Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1864.
“He is honest…Republican Senators”: EBL to SPL, July 2, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 398.
“I am the most popular man in my country”: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 326.
“So my official life closes”: Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.
the oppressive heat of Washington…“are wilting”: Entry for July 31, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 392.
“laid broad foundations”…was still unfinished: Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.
Blair and Bates called…“as a blessing”: Entry for June 30, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 62–63 (quote p. 63).
“the courage and candor to admit his errors”: Entry for March 23, 1864, ibid., p. 545.
“his jokes are…destitute of wit”: Entry for March 22, 1864, ibid., p. 545.
“a vague feeling…to be cordial”: Entry for June 30, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 381.
“dropped off…every body else”: FPB to FB, July 4, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 271.
Seward, unlike…“first day of the Administration”: WHS to FAS, [July] 2, 1864, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 230.
he noted sadly…“since my resignation”: Entry for July 13, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 479.
If Chase believed…he was mistaken: SPC to EMS, June 30, 1864, in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 618.
Chase searched for reasons…“hostile to me”: Entry for July 4, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 476.
“The root…a joke out of this war”: SPC to Whitelaw Reid, quoted in Albert Bushnell Hart, Salmon P. Chase. American Statesmen Series (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), p. 318.
To Kate…“cannot finish what I began”: SPC to KCS, July 3, 1864, reel 34, Chase Papers.
whose marriage to William…“the balance of power”: Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 78.
“Can it be…even with far less material wealth”: Entry for November 4, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers (quotes); Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, pp. 74, 84–85.
occasionally loathing…“learned to submit”: Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.
Chase witnessed a fight…her first child: Entry for September 9, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 501 (quote); Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 135–36, 144.
The Wade-Davis bill: H. R. 244, 38th Cong., 1st sess. (“Wade-Davis Bill”), in The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861–1870, ed. Harold Hyman. American Heritage Series (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), pp. 128–34.
In a written proclamation…single, inflexible system: AL, “Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction,” July 8, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 433.
he likened the Wade-Davis…“fit the bedstead”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 156–57.
Lincoln understood…“fixed within myself”: “4 July 1864, Monday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 218–19.
Wade and Davis published…manifesto against him: “The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864,” in The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861–1870, ed. Hyman, pp. 137–47.
He was not surprised by…“that can befall a man”: Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, p. 156.
The rumors alarmed…eager to get started: EBL to SPL, July 6, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 400.
In a letter to Frank…“a remote future”: FPB to FB, July 4, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 272.
admonitions concerned Monty…the Pennsylvania countryside: EBL to SPL, July 6, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 400.
tried to convince her mother…“pulled to pieces”: EBL to SPL, July 14, 1864, in ibid., p. 403.
Grant’s decision…General Lew Wallace: John Henry Cramer, Lincoln Under Enemy