Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
remedy the “want of education”: Donald,
Lincoln Reconsidered,
p. 71.
“nearly mastered…Euclid”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in
CW,
IV, p. 62.
“he read hard works…read generally”: John T. Stuart interview, December 20, 1866, in
HI,
p. 519.
“so deeply absorbed…point of exhaustion”: WHH, in Weik,
The Real Lincoln,
p. 240.
“Life was to him…came before him”: Swett, “Lincoln’s Story of His Own Life,” in
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,
ed. Rice, p. 79.
“one of the greatest hardships”: Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
p. 79.
circuit life was invaluable: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
p. 94; White,
Abraham Lincoln in 1854,
p. 20; Strozier,
Lincoln’s Quest for Union,
p. 144.
“If I muzzle not…the Whig party”: WHS to FAS, July 21, 1850, in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 148.
Seward’s eulogies to Clay and Webster: WHS, “Henry Clay” and “Daniel Webster,” in
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. III, pp. 104–16.
“They cannot see…of wrath!”: WHS to unidentified recipient [FAS?], 1852, in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 194.
“I do not wish you…true to liberty”: FAS to WHS, June 13, [1852], reel 114, Seward Papers.
“worldly wisdom…current if necessary”: FAS to WHS, July 20, 1856, reel 114, Seward Papers.
“This fearless defense…righteous cause”: FAS to CS, September 18, 1852, reel 9, The Papers of Charles Sumner, Chadwyck-Healey microfilm edition [hereafter Sumner Papers].
“a Waterloo defeat”: Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 196.
she was tempted…“more harm than good”: FAS to LW, January 15, 1854, reel 119, Seward Papers.
“Would that I were…obligation and duty”: WHS to FAS, May 16, 1855, quoted in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 251.
everywhere Seward went…join him: Johnson, “I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,”
URLB
(1978), p. 48.
Frances’s health problems: FAS to LW, January 2, February 7, 1832; August 31, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers; FAS, “Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835,” reel 197, and FAS, MSS Fragment on Illness, 1865, Seward Papers; entries for December 28, 1858, and March 16, 1859, FS diary, reel 198, Seward Papers; Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 23–27.
her “sanctuary”: WHS to FAS, February 12, 1837, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 325.
Doctors could not pinpoint: Johnson, “I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,” URLB (1978), pp. 46–47.
the “various…purpose in their life”: FAS, “Womans Mission, Westminster, 1850,” reel 197, Seward Papers.
“There you are…pleasures, except at intervals”: WHS to [FAS], June 13, 1847, in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 51.
The Sewards’ relationship was sustained: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 162; Johnson, “I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,”
URLB
(1978), p. 53.
“above every other thing in the world”: WHS to FAS, August 22, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
whose “silver rays”…in the mail: WHS to FAS, January 27, 1831, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 173.
played in the smoke from his cigar: WHS to FAS, January 15, 1831, in ibid., p. 168.
“Clouds and darkness…twelve months ago”: SPC to CS, September 8, 1850, reel 7, Sumner Papers.
isolated in the Senate…achieve his position: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 142, 146–47.
routine at Miss Haines’s School: Julia Newberry,
Julia Newberry’s Diary,
intro. Margaret Ayer Barnes and Janet Ayer Fairbank (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933), pp. 35–36: Phelps,
Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter,
pp. 74–75; Alice Hunt Sokoloff,
Kate Chase for the Defense
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971), pp. 28–29.
“without…we could hardly breathe”: Newberry,
Julia Newberry’s Diary,
p. 36.
correspondence between Chase and Kate: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 201. Examples of loving but critical letters to KCS: July 22, August 23, September 5, 1850; January 15, March 2, April 19, August 30, September 10, 1851; January 23, 1853; May 27, 1855; April 30, 1859.
“Your last letter…use your eyes, reflect”: SPC to KCS, January 15, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I wish…into your letters”: SPC to KCS, January 22, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“Your nice letter…drowsy God”: SPC to KCS, June 21, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“It will be a…pleasurable sensation”: SPC to KCS, February 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“Remember…preparation for another!”: SPC to KCS, December 5, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“strong, robust…give you grace”: SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I am sorry…to you the reasons why”: SPC to KCS, August 10, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“you have it…by ill conduct”: SPC to KCS, January 23, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“To an affectionate father…delightful future”: SPC to KCS, March 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“be made President”: SPC to KCS, February 21, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I knew Clay…and was a brilliant talker”: “Kate Chase in 1893,” undated newspaper clipping from the
Star,
“Sprague, Kate Chase” vertical file, Washingtoniana Division, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. [hereafter KCS vertical file, DWP].
“You cannot think…hear you praised”: SPC to KCS, January 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“have visited…as they should be”: SPC to KCS, August 27, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“The sun shines…the chirp of insects”: SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
“I should like…a ramble together”: SPC to KCS, April 3, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
Chase understood her desire: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 419.
“Miss Lizzie…among gentlemen”: SPC to KCS, August 4, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
the “African mania”: Bates diary, January 1, 1850.
“lovers of free…in the South”: Bates diary, January 1, 1850.
“a struggle among…sectional supremacy”: Bates diary, May 31, 1851.
radicals…personal ambition: Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 46.
“in Civil government…arbitrary designing knave”: Bates diary, July 4, 1851.
“the world’s best hope…so black”: Bates diary, March 6, 1850.
“if we stood aloof…insignificance”: Bates diary, November 27, 1850.
“A human being…crippling effect”: Thomas Mann,
The Magic Mountain,
trans. John E. Woods (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 31.
speech at Young Men’s Lyceum: AL, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, in
CW,
I, pp. 108–15, esp. 108, 113–14.
A train of events…grant them territorial status: Henry V. Jaffa,
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 104–05; Fehrenbacher,
The South and Three Sectional Crises,
pp. 49, 56–57.
Kansas-Nebraska Act: See “Kansas-Nebraska Act,” in
The Reader’s Companion to American History,
ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 609.
Enforcement…in Boston and New York: Allan Nevins,
Ordeal of the Union.
Vol. I:
Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852
(New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947), pp. 387–88.
“I had never…aggressive and dangerous”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Fugitive Slave Law,” reprinted in
The Portable Emerson,
pp. 547–48.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
: See Thomas F. Gossett,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
(Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985), pp. 164, 183–84.
“a flash…hosts of slavery”: Frederick Douglass, quoted in ibid., p. 172.
“in greater numbers…against invasion”: Fehrenbacher,
Prelude to Greatness,
p. 23.
“blood and treasure”: Fehrenbacher, “The Wilmot Proviso and the Mid-Century Crisis” in Fehrenbacher,
The South and Three Sectional Crises,
p. 35.
“The day may come…out of it!”: Thomas Bragg, quoted in Avery O. Craven,
The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848–1861.
Vol. VI:
A History of the South
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953; 1984), p. 204.
“a mighty subject…every five minutes”: WHS to [FAS?], February 12, 1854, in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 219.
“essays against slavery…was the leader”: Stephen Douglas, quoted in Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 134.
“one of the most effective…ever produced”: Blue,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 93 (quote); Gienapp,
The Origins of the Republican Party,
p. 72.
“We arraign…cause of God”: SPC, et al.,
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress, to the People of the United States. Shall Slavery be Permitted in Nebraska?
(Washington, D.C.: Towers’ Printers, 1854).
“Chase’s greatest…experience of his life”: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 134.
“By far the most…of the Senate”:
NYT,
February 6, 1854.
“high pitch of wrath…a corrupt bargain”: Pike, “Night Scenes in the Passage of the Nebraska Bill,” March 4, 1854, from
NYTrib,
in Pike,
First Blows of the Civil War,
pp. 217–18 (quote p. 217).
“I said the man…I mean you”:
NYTrib,
March 6, 1854.
“this discussion…man, as man”: SPC, “Maintain Plighted Faith. Speech of Hon. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, in the Senate, February 3, 1854,”
Appendix to the Congressional Globe,
33rd Cong., 1st sess., p. 140.
“Ah…‘negro’ with two gs”:
NYTrib,
March 7, 1854 (first quote); Carl Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years,
Vol. I (4 vols., New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939), p. 144 (second quote).
“Midnight passed…was taken”: Pike, “Night Scenes in the Passage of the Nebraska Bill,” March 4, 1854, from
NYTrib,
in Pike,
First Blows of the Civil War,
p. 216.
The all-night session: Johannsen,
Stephen A. Douglas,
p. 432.
by “great confusion…galleries participated”:
NYTrib,
March 4, 1854.
“beastly drunk…the Senate room”: Ibid.
“The Senate is emasculated”: Thomas Hart Benton, quoted by Pike, “Night Scenes in the Passage of the Nebraska Bill,” March 4, 1854, from
NYTrib,
in Pike,
First Blows of the Civil War,
p. 220.
a distant cannonade: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 152.
“They celebrate…itself shall die”: Schuckers,
The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase,
p. 156.
“Be assured…forces of slavery and freedom”: Pike, “A Warning,” April 1854, from
NYTrib,
in Pike,
First Blows of the Civil War,
pp. 222–23.
“The tremendous storm…every week”: Nevins,
Ordeal of the Union.
Vol. II:
A House Dividing,
p. 125.
Resolutions:
NYTrib,
March 6 and 10, 1854.
“led by a band…torches and banners”:
NYTrib,
March 6, 1854.
“he sat on the edge…half-slave and half-free”: T. Lyle Dickey, paraphrased in Frederick Trevor Hill,
Lincoln the Lawyer
(New York: Century Co, 1906), p. 264.
“as he had never been before”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in
CW,
IV, p. 67 (quote); Miller,
Lincoln’s Virtues,
pp. 232–34, 238–39.
“took us by…and stunned”: AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in
CW,
II, p. 282.
spent many hours in the State Library:
Illinois State Register,
quoted in Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 173.
“inside and…downside”: Herndon and Weik,
Herndon’s Life of Lincoln,
p. 478.
“I am slow…to rub it out”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, December 6, 1866, in
HI,
p. 499.
at the annual State Fair:
Illinois State Journal,
October 5, 1854;
Peoria Daily Press,
October 9, 1854;
Illinois State Register,
October 6, 1854.
a “world-renowned” plow:
Peoria Daily Press,
October 9, 1854.
“a jolly good time ensued”: Ibid.
Douglas at the State Fair: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 147–48; Oates,
With Malice Toward None,
p. 124.
“He had a large…crush his prey”: Horace White,
The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 17, 1914
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), pp. 7–8.