Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [637]
“Fondly do we hope…with all nations”: AL, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865, in CW, VIII, pp. 332–33.
“as he became…Church member”: Leonard Swett to WHH, January 17, 1866, in HI, pp. 167–68.
crowd cheered…drew to a close: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, March 4, 1865.
“the largest crowd…been here yet”: JGN to TB, March 5, 1865, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
president was…five thousand people: Star, March 6, 1865.
“It was a grand…every 4 minutes”: Entry for March 5, 1865, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 466.
“On reaching the door…you liked it!”: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pp. 803–04.
his own assessment…“Almighty and them”: AL to TW, March 15, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 356.
New York World…“statesmanship”: New York World, March 6, 1865, quoted in Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 149.
Tribune charged…chance for peace: NYTrib, March 6, 1865, quoted in Harris, p. 150.
“That rail-splitting…keynote of this war”: Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to Charles Francis Adams, Sr., quoted in Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 148.
London Spectator… “village lawyer”: London Spectator, March 25, 1865, quoted in Lincoln As They Saw Him, ed. Herbert Mitgang (New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956), pp. 447, 446.
Arnold overheard…Seward himself: Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, p. 148.
“The President’s…position in history”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 404–05.
“He has called…sickening to the heart”: Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, January 10, 1865, reprinted in Liberator, March 3, 1865.
“it was always plain…judicious and appropriate”: Charles A. Dana, quoted in Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 36.
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“he was in mind…all-sufficing strength”: Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 37.
“a tired spot”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 161.
avoid the thousands…“Egyptian locusts”: JGN to TB, March 5, 1865, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 175.
“The bare thought…crush me”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 276.
“they don’t want…must see them”: AL, quoted in Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 33.
“I think now…nineteen enemies”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 276.
hope that consul…wished to help: AL to WHS, March 6, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 337.
“at all times…of public trusts”: AL to Winfield Scott and others, March 1, 1865, CW, VIII, p. 327.
Fessenden had been assured…“with regret”: Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, pp. 365, 367 (quote).
“I desire gratefully…this great people”: William Pitt Fessenden to AL, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 366.
he was nervous…“never sorry”: Hugh McCulloch, Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Comments (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888; 1900), pp. 193–94.
intended to replace Usher: “Usher, John Palmer,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 317.
Hay was particularly adept…“his influence”: William Leete Stone, quoted by Michael Burlingame, in introduction to Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. xiii.
Nicolay functioned…and New York: Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” p. 209.
Hay was chosen…reconstruction of Florida: “Hay, John Milton,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 149.
had come to believe…“the hand of God”: JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 49 (quote); “Hay, John Milton,” in Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 149.
If the “patent…blinking eyes”: JH to WHH, September 5, 1866, in HI, p. 332.
contemplating the purchase of a newspaper: Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, p. 224.
Mary had enlisted…Noah Brooks: Anson G. Henry to his wife, March 13, 1865, in Concerning Mr. Lincoln, comp. Pratt, p. 117.
tried to talk…any such discussion: JGN to TB, quoted in Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, p. 223.
Seward found…dissenting vote: NR, quoted in ibid., p.