Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [632]
“his firmness…into arrogance”: Alonzo Rothschild, Lincoln, Master of Men: A Study in Character (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. 231.
“hard to vote…is a ruffian”: Entry for September 17, 1864, in Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 489.
“Go home…be found guilty”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 246.
“Folks come up…don’t know ’em!”: AL, quoted in Rothschild, Lincoln, Master of Men, p. 285.
discreet New Englander…“political gossip”: Entry for August 31, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 131.
Times of London…“first class power”: NR, January 7, 1865.
Bates had contemplated…“to your age”: Barton Bates to EB, May 13, 1864, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
prospect of going home…“god’s blessing”: Entry for May 29, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 371.
Bates believed…“as long as I live”: EB to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
first months as Attorney General…military matters: Entry for December 31, 1861, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 218–19; entry for January 10, 1862, ibid., pp. 223–26.
deliver a legal opinion…“and clothing”: EB to AL, July 14, 1864, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. IV, pp. 490–93 (quote p. 493).
Abolitionists applauded: Entry for May 26, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 371.
citizenship issue…of the United States: Frank J. Williams, “Attorney General Bates and Attorney President Lincoln,” R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Ind., September 23, 2000, author’s collection; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 222–23.
“Though esteemed…constitutional interpretation”: Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., December 4, 1864, quoted in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 430.
reveals frustration…“no subordination”: Entry for October 1, 1861, ibid., p. 196.
General Butler…arrests in Norfolk: Entry for August 4, 1864, ibid., pp. 393–94.
“chief fear…easy good nature”: Entry for February 13, 1864, ibid., p. 334.
troubled at the start…“sure to prevail”: EB, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 68–69.
each of his colleagues…“affable and kind”: Entry for December 2, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 429.
Bates left…“with regret”: Entry for November 30, 1864, ibid., p. 428.
forever connected…“when I am gone”: Poem, quoted in entry for October 13, 1864, ibid., p. 419.
“My Cabinet…would have to be heeded”: AL, quoted in Titian J. Coffey, “Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
Holt declined the offer…“personal character”: Joseph Holt to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“I appoint you…come on at once”: AL to James Speed, in CW, VIII, p. 126.
“Will leave tomorrow for Washington”: James Speed to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“I am a…everywhere forever”: James Speed, quoted in Gary Lee Williams, “James and Joshua Speed: Lincoln’s Kentucky Friends” (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1971), p. 137.
“We are less now but true”: James Speed to AL, November 25, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 138.
“a man I know…ought to know him well”: AL, quoted in Coffey, “Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
Had it been…“freely and publicly”: David Herbert Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 38.
“You will find…by a big office”: AL, quoted in Coffey, “Lincoln and the Cabinet,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
only position…“Stanton ever desired”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 162.
“You have been wearing…owes it to you”: Robert Grier to EMS, October 13, 1864, Stanton Papers, DLC.
Ellen Stanton…“subject tomorrow”: Entry for October 16, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 687–88.
Matthew Simpson…“I will do it”: AL, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
Grant worried…stay at his post: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 337.
Stanton informed…“among candidates”: Edwards Pierrepont to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
He “felt that…higher