Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
attendance at Cooper Union speech: Benjamin P. Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 202.
“one of the happiest…New York audience”:
NYTrib,
February 28, 1860.
state convention at Decatur:
Press and Tribune,
Chicago, May 11, 1860; Don E. Fehrenbacher,
Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962), p. 148.
“the Rail Candidate for President”:
NYH,
May 24, 1860.
“with no clogs…rights of the South”:
Press and Tribune,
Chicago, May 15, 1860. The
Press and Tribune
became the
Tribune
on October 25, 1860.
“new in the field…very great many”: AL to Sam Galloway, March 24, 1860, in
CW,
IV, p. 34.
“in a mood to come…their first love”: Ibid.
“We are laboring…for any result”: Nathan M. Knapp to AL, May 14, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“Am very hopeful…be Excited”: David Davis to AL, May 17, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln stretched…“and practice law”: Conkling, “How Mr. Lincoln Received the News,”
Transactions
(1909), pp. 64–65.
Seward typically rose: Frederick W. Seward,
William H. Seward: An Autobiography from 1801 to 1834, with a Memoir of His Life, and Selections from His Letters, 1831–1846
(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1877), p. 658 [hereafter Seward,
An Autobiography
]; Frederick W. Seward,
Seward at Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State. A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 1846–1861
(New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 203.
description of Seward mansion: Interview with Betty Mae Lewis, curator of Seward House, Auburn, N.Y., 1999 [hereafter Lewis interview];
The Seward House
(Auburn, N.Y.: The Foundation Historical Association, 1955);
NYH,
August 27, 1860.
Seward’s interest in gardening: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 368, 657–58.
“a lover’s interest”: WHS to [TW?], April 12, 1835, in ibid., p. 257.
“came in to the table…that was exhausted”: Ibid., pp. 658, 461, 481; Lewis interview.
“The cannoneers…joyful news”:
Auburn Democrat,
reprinted in the
Atlas and Argus,
Albany, N.Y., May 28, 1860.
weather conditions: WHS to FAS, December 17, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers; Patricia C. Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers, 1858–1866, of Frances Adeline [Fanny] Seward.” Ph.D. diss, University of Rochester, 1963, pp. 1–2.
Visitors had come…Weedsport to the north: Henry B. Stanton,
Random Recollections,
3rd edn. (New York: Harper & Bros., 1887), p. 215.
Local restaurants had stocked up:
NYH,
August 27, 1860;
Auburn Democrat,
reprinted in the
Atlas and Argus,
Albany, N.Y., May 28, 1860.
the vigorous senator: See Glyndon G. Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 255–57, 263.
New York Herald
…“dauntless and intrepid”:
NYH,
August 27, 1860.
slender frame…“most glorious original”: Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., December 9, 1860, in
Letters of Henry Adams (1858–1891),
Vol. I., ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), p. 63.
physical description of Seward: John M. Taylor,
William Henry Seward: Lincoln’s Right Hand
(New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 17; Burton J. Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet
(Boston, Little, Brown, 1946), p. 8; Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 11, 56–57; Frederic Bancroft,
The Life of William H. Seward,
Vol. I (New York: Harper & Bros., 1899; Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1967), p. 184.
“school-boy elasticity…slashing swagger”: Murat Halstead,
Three Against Lincoln: Murat Halstead Reports the Caucuses of 1860,
ed. William B. Hesseltine (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960), p. 120.
Every room…by Washington Irving: Lewis interview;
The Seward House,
pp. 5–6, 12, 16, 23, 26; Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 440, 677; Susan Sutton Smith, “Mr. Seward’s Home,”
University of Rochester Library Bulletin
31 (Autumn 1978), pp. 69–93.
“the honor in question…of its principles”:
National Intelligencer,
Washington, D.C., May 19, 1860.
“No press has opposed…leadership of the man”:
Atlas and Argus,
Albany, N.Y., May 19, 1860.
valedictory speech to the Senate: Bancroft,
The Life of William H. Seward,
Vol. I, p. 522; Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 222; entry for May 13, 1860, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, reel 75,
microfilms of The Adams Papers owned by the Adams Manuscript Trust and deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society,
Part I (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1954) [hereafter Charles Francis Adams diary].
love of Auburn: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 744.
“free to act…to die”:
Auburn Journal,
December 31, 1859, reprinted in
Albany Evening Journal,
Albany, N.Y., January 3, 1860.
Auburn in the 1860s: Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 2–3.
Seward had arrived…Cayuga County: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 6–7.
description of Frances: Ibid., p. 10; Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 18–19.
death of Cornelia: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 37.
slow to take up the Republican banner: Clarence Edward Macartney,
Lincoln and His Cabinet
(New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931), pp. 94–95.
“would inspire a cow…language”: Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., December 9, 1860,
Letters of Henry Adams (1858–1891),
Vol. I, p. 62.
the “leader of the political…pass-words of our combatants”: Schurz,
Reminiscences,
Vol. II, pp. 173–74.
his exuberant personality…yellow pantaloons: Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 8; Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” p. 57.
an aura of inevitability: Halstead,
Three Against Lincoln,
p. 120.
“Men might love…ignore him”: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, “Thurlow Weed: A Character Study,”
American Historical Review
XLIX (April 1944), p. 427.
“as a hen does its chicks”: Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 17.
an exceptional team: Richard L. Watson, Jr., “Thurlow Weed, Political Boss,”
New York History
22 (October 1941), p. 415.
“Seward is Weed”: WHS, quoted in Gideon Welles,
Lincoln and Seward Remarks Upon the Memorial Address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the Late Wm. H. Seward…
(New York: Sheldon & Co., 1874), p. 23.
Weed certainly understood…created jealousy: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 216, 222–23.
Weed believed…emerge the victor: TW to WHS, May 20, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
Members…confirmed Weed’s assessment: Mary King Clark, “Lincoln’s Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl from New York,”
Putnam’s Magazine
5 (February 1909), pp. 536–37.
“no
cause
for doubting…to the result”: James Watson Webb to WHS, May 16, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“Your friends…a few ballots”: Elbridge Gerry Spaulding to WHS, May 17, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“All right…today sure”: Telegram from Preston King, William M. Evarts, and Richard M. Blatchford to WHS, May 18, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
Gothic mansion…State and Sixth Streets: “History of the Chase House,” article in the Central Ohio Buildings File, Local History Room, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio; William Dean Howells,
Years of My Youth
(New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1916; 1917), p. 153.
Brass bands…were revealed:
Daily Ohio Statesman,
Columbus, Ohio, May 19, 1860.
Chase’s height, physical description: Albert Bushnell Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
introduction by G. S. Boritt.
American Statesmen Series
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899; New York and London: Chelsea House, 1980), p. 415; Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 32.
“looked…statesman to look”: Schurz,
Reminiscences,
Vol. II, p. 34.
“he is one of…splendor and brilliancy”:
Troy
[
N.Y.
]
Times,
October 18, 1860, quoted in
Columbus Gazette,
November 2, 1860.
“an arresting duality…the world”: Thomas Graham Belden and Marva Robins Belden,
So Fell the Angels
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1956), p. 4.
dressed with meticulous care: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 415.
so nearsighted: John Niven,
Salmon P. Chase: A Biography
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 79, 173, 193.
man of unbending routine: Virginia Tatnall Peacock,
Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century
(1900; Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), p. 211; Demarest Lloyd, “The Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,”
Atlantic Monthly
32 (November 1873), pp. 528, 530–31, 536, 538; Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 203–05; J. W. Schuckers,
The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, United States Senator and Governor of Ohio; Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief-Justice of the United States
(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874), p. 595; Schurz,
Reminiscences,
Vol. II, pp. 169–70.
On the rare nights: Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,”
Atlantic Monthly,
pp. 529 (quote), 531; Peacock,
Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century,
pp. 211–12; Ishbel Ross,
Proud Kate: Portrait of an Ambitious Woman
(New York: Harper & Bros., 1953), p. 37.
items in Chase home: SPC to KCS, December 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
dogs…“designed and posed”: Doster,
Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War,
p. 173.
description of Columbus in 1860: Howells,
Years of My Youth,
pp. 134, 169, 181 (quote); Francis Phelps Weisenburger,
Columbus during the Civil War
(n.p.: Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1963), pp. 3–4.
new Capitol building: Henry Howe,
Historical Collections of Ohio,
Vol. I, Ohio Centennial Edition (Norwalk, Ohio: Laning Printing Co., 1896), p. 621 (quote); Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration, comps.,
The Ohio Guide,
sponsored by Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940; 1948), pp. 251, 254.
contrast between Seward and Chase: Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 36; Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 58–59.
recoiled from all games of chance: SPC to KCS, September 15, 1854, reel 10, Chase Papers; Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,”
Atlantic Monthly,
pp. 529, 531.
“he seldom…without spoiling it”: Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,”
Atlantic Monthly,
p. 536.
Kate’s education: Belden and Belden,
So Fell the Angels,
p. 15; Ross,
Proud Kate,
pp. 19–22, 34.
“In a few years…anything else”: SPC to KCS, December 20, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
absolutely essential: Belden and Belden,
So Fell the Angels,
pp. 16, 18, 21–22; Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 202–03.
“She did everything…another Mrs. Chase”: Belden and Belden,
So Fell the Angels,
p. 22.
Chase treated his…younger daughter: Peacock,
Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century,
p. 207.
Chase was actually more radical than Seward: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 423, 429.
“There may have been…ideas as he”: Ibid., p. 434.
“In the long run…than did Chase”: William E. Gienapp,
The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 192.
“A very large body…spontaneous growth”: SPC to Gamaliel Bailey, January 24, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“I arrived early…he should be President”: Schurz,
Reminiscences,
Vol. II, pp. 169–72.
“desirable…our best men”: SPC to Robert Hosea, March 18, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“No man…more competent”:
Ohio State Journal,
Columbus, Ohio, March 12, 1860.