Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [633]
“The country cannot…fame already”: Henry Ward Beecher to EMS, November 30, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 163.
“Often, in dark hours…fresh hope”: EMS to Henry Ward Beecher, December 4, 1864, quoted in ibid., pp. 163–64.
Welles told Lincoln…“suppose he would”: Entry for November 26, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 182.
taken his son’s…personal blow: Entry for September 27, 1864, ibid., p. 161.
“I beg you to indulge…of that Bench”: FPB to AL, October 20, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 298–99.
“Chase and his friends…Chief-Justiceship”: MTL, quoted in “If All the Rest Oppose,” in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, p. 360.
“had been tried…stood by him”: FPB to John A. Andrew, quoted in ibid., p. 360.
“a crowning and retiring honor”: Entry for November 22, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 428.
had “personally solicited”: Entry for October 18, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 688.
“If not overborne…to private life”: Entry for November 22, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 427–28.
“Of Mr. Chase’s…not hesitate a moment”: AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IX (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 394.
similar comment…“life to the Bench”: Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 245.
“Now, I know…men can tell me”: Noah Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner’s Monthly 15 (March 1878), p. 677.
“we have stood…fitness for the office”: AL, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 244–45.
Oblivious to Stanton’s…“life & work”: SPC to EMS, October 13, 1864, Chase Papers, Vol. IV, p. 434.
“I have something…will be satisfied”: AL and John B. Alley, quoted in John B. Alley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 581–82.
Lincoln later told Senator Chandler…“nominated Chase”: Entry for December 15, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 196.
“Probably no other…of the President”: JGN to TB, December 8, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
got the official word…“or office”: SPC to AL, December 6, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“overflowing with…‘So help me God’”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln’s Time, pp. 175–76.
“I hope the President…in the court”: Entry for December 6, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 193.
Within hours…first black barrister: John S. Rock to CS, December 17, 1864, enclosed in CS to SPC, December 21, 1864, in Selected Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. II, ed. Palmer, p. 259 n1 (quote); entry for January 21, 1865, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 519.
Sumner stood before…“of this Court”: CS, quoted in Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 232.
Rock stepped forward…“of a great people”: Harper’s Weekly, February 25, 1865.
“has been quite…with good feeling”: MTL to Mercy Levering Conkling, November 19, [1864], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 187.
she had been terrified…“run in debt”: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, pp. 147, 149–50 (quotes).
exposed her…could not curtail: “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Unethical Conduct as First Lady,” appendix 2, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, pp. 185–205.
“Here is the carriage…many questions”: Entry for December 14, 1864, Taft diary.
new dress…“kid gloves”: Entry for July 3, 1873, Browning diary, quoted in appendix 2, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 187.
“I can neither…your acting thus”: MTL to Ruth Harris, December 28, [1864], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 196.
Newspaper reports…“tasteful decoration”: NR, January 10, 1865.
“Mrs. Lincoln was…throughout”: NR, February 17, 1865.
“Overcoats…for safe-keeping”: NR, January 6, 1865.
“a more general…and themselves”: NR, January 10, 1865.
“I was pleased…two school boys”: MTL to Sally Orne, [December 12, 1869], quoted in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 534.
lingering grief…favorite rooms: Entry for March 31, 1864, Benjamin B. French journal, reel 2, French Family Papers, DLC.
“darling Boy!…far from being”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, November 20, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p.