Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
“cast away…a half-naked pugilist”: John Quincy Adams diary, quoted in William Gardner,
Life of Stephen A. Douglas
(Boston: Roxburgh Press, 1905), p. 20.
“He was frequently…with him”:
Peoria Daily Press,
October 7, 1854.
Lincoln announced rebuttal the following day: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
p. 148.
Douglas seated in the front row: White,
Abraham Lincoln in 1854,
p. 12.
largest audience: Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 174.
“awkward…knew he was right”: White,
Abraham Lincoln in 1854,
p. 10.
“one of the world’s…lapse of time”: White,
The Lincoln and Douglas Debates,
p. 12.
“thin, high-pitched…of the speaker himself”: White,
Abraham Lincoln in 1854,
p. 10.
Lincoln embedded his argument: AL, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in
CW,
II, pp. 247–83.
so “clear and logical…most effective”:
Illinois Daily Journal,
October 5, 1854.
“connected view…reclaiming of their fugitives”: AL, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in
CW,
II, pp. 248–75. The text of Lincoln’s speech in Springfield on October 4, 1854, is no longer extant, but as the editors of
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
have noted, the speech Lincoln delivered in Peoria on October 16, 1854, “is much the same speech.” In the absence of a verbatim transcription of the Springfield speech, Lincoln’s words from the October 16, 1854, Peoria one have been substituted. See footnote 1 to “Speech at Springfield, Illinois,”
CW,
II, p. 240.
“thundering tones…drunkard on the earth”: AL, “Temperance Address. An Address, Delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in
CW,
I, pp. 273, 279.
“joined the north…to the latest generations”: AL, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in
CW,
II, pp. 264–76.
“deafening applause…anti-Nebraska speech”:
Peoria Daily Press,
October 7, 1854.
Once he committed…authenticity of feeling: Miller,
Lincoln’s Virtues,
p. 14; Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 270.
“as my two eyes make one in sight”: Robert Frost, “Two Tramps in Mudtime,”
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems,
ed. Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1969; 1979), p. 277.
CHAPTER 6: THE GATHERING STORM
“mainly attributed…the first choice”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in
HI,
p. 182.
the worst blizzard in more than two decades: Entries for January 20–28, 1855, in
Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809–1865.
Vol. II:
1848–1860,
ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), pp. 136–37 [hereafter
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. II]; articles in the
Illinois Daily Journal,
Springfield, Ill., January 23–February 8, 1855.
“the merry sleigh bells…nearly extinct”:
Illinois Daily Journal,
January 24, 27, and 30, 1855.
“a beehive of activity”:
Daily Alton Telegraph,
February 12, 1855, quoted in Mark M. Krug,
Lyman Trumbull, Conservative Radical
(New York and London: A. S. Barnes & Co., and Thomas Yoseloff, 1965), p. 98.
“lobby and the galleries…and their guests”: Krug,
Lyman Trumbull,
p. 98.
ladies in the gallery: Ibid.; White,
Abraham Lincoln in 1854,
p. 17.
bought a stack of small notebooks: Entry for January 1, 1855,
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. II, p. 136; “List of Members of the Illinois Legislature in 1855,” [January 1, 1855?], in
CW,
II, pp. 296–98.
To reach a majority…fragile coalition: Miller,
Lincoln’s Virtues,
p. 303.
On the first ballot: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in
CW,
II, p. 304.
five anti-Nebraska…“at home”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, September 19, 1866, in
HI,
p. 344.
Trumbull story: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in
CW,
II, pp. 304–06; Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, and September 19, 1866, in
HI,
pp. 182–83, 344–45.
“you will lose both…to men”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in
HI,
p. 183.
“spectators scarcely…the contest”: John G. Nicolay and John Hay,
Abraham Lincoln: A History,
Vol. I (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 390.
“perhaps his last…high position”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in
HI,
p. 182.
Logan put his hands: Oates,
With Malice Toward None,
p. 130.
“he never would…by the 5”: David Davis, quoted in AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855,
CW,
II, p. 306.
at Trumbull’s victory party: Albert J. Beveridge,
Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858,
Vol. III (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1928), p. 287; White,
Abraham Lincoln in 1854,
p. 19.
“worse whipped…Trumbull is elected”: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln, in defeat, gained friends: Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 185.
“cold, selfish, treachery”: MTL to Leonard Swett, January 12, 1867, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 406.
never spoke another word: Beveridge,
Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858,
Vol. III, p. 286; Miller,
Lincoln’s Virtues,
p. 312.
intermediaries tried…never healed: Burlingame,
The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 310; Strozier,
Lincoln’s Quest for Union,
p. 76.
to blackball him: MTL to David Davis, January 17, 1861, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p.
71; entry for December 3, 1865,
Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson.
Vol. II:
April 1, 1864–December 31, 1866,
ed. Howard K. Beale (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1960), p. 390 [hereafter Welles diary, Vol. II].
an “agony”: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in
CW,
II, p. 304.
“He could bear…his friends”: Joseph Gillespie, quoted in Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 184.
celebrated law case: Unless otherwise noted, information and quotations related to the Reaper case have been derived from Robert H. Parkinson to Albert J. Beveridge, May 28, 1923, container 292, Beveridge Papers, DLC.
Peter Watson: Beveridge,
Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858,
Vol. II, p. 280.
“At our interview…Manny’s machine”: AL to Peter H. Watson, July 23, 1855, in
CW,
II, pp. 314–15.
“Why did you bring…no good”: WHH to JWW, January 6, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
“rapt attention”: Ralph and Adaline Emerson,
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Emerson’s Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
(Rockford, Ill.: Wilson Brothers Co., 1909), p. 7.
“drinking in his words”: Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 63.
“to study law”: Emerson,
Emerson’s Personal Recollections,
p. 7.
“For any rough-…will be ready”: Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 63.
“You have made…to return here”: AL, quoted in W. M. Dickson, “Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,”
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
69 (June 1884), p. 62.
“the most powerful…his gift”: Miller,
Lincoln’s Virtues,
p. 425.
despite his initial contempt…respect and love Lincoln: Lewis Hutchison Stanton to unknown correspondent, January 4, 1930, quoted in the appendix to Gideon Townsend Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton: A Personal Portrait as revealed in letters addressed to his wife Ellen Hutchison during his voyage to and sojourn in San Francisco…and including letters covering the period 1854 to 1869,” undated, typed manuscript, EdwinM. Stanton Manuscript, Mss. 1648, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. [hereafter Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton”]; Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
p. 382.
the “long armed Ape”: WHH to JWW, January 6, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
Stanton’s comfortable childhood…and other works of history: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” esp. pp. 20–21, 24, 28, 30, 38, 39, 40, 66–67.
the “happiest hours of his life”: Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 37.
“regenerate the world”:
Mary Lamson Stanton to EMS, December 13, 1843, quoted in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 108.
Mary Lamson and children: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton”; Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
pp. 30, 32, 36–37, 38.
“bright and cheery”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 63.
Stanton looked upon…and Byron: EMS to Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 113.
“We years ago…cannot express”: EMS to Mary Lamson Stanton, December 16, 1842, EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton.”
deaths of Lucy and Mary: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton”; Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” pp. 72, 99; Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
pp. 38, 44.
“verged on insanity”: Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman,
Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 35.
“She is my bride”…held that spring: Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 39.
“with lamp in hand…Where is Mary?”: Wolcott, “Edwin M. Stanton,” p. 100.
Stanton’s responsibilities…go of his sorrow: Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
pp. 35–36.
a letter of over a hundred pages: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton.”
“tears obscuring his vision”: Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
“anguish of heart”: EMS, “Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton.”
“but time, care…for each other”: Ibid.
developed a high fever: Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
p. 40.
“He bled…few moments”: Alfred Taylor, quoted in Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 45.
His mother watched: Ibid.
“the blood spouted…ceiling”: Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
p. 41.
Neighbors were sent…watching over him: Alfred Taylor, quoted in Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 45.
“Where formerly…clasped behind”: Mrs. Davison Filson, quoted in ibid., p. 40.
Stanton’s change of personality in court: Ibid., p. 34.
“the most important”…He was greatly relieved: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, September 25, 1855, Stanton Papers, Donated Historical Materials, formerly Record Group 200, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. [hereafter Stanton Papers, DNA] (quote); Dickson, “Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,”
Harper’s
(1884), p. 62.
Ellen Hutchison: See Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 66.
“radiant with beauty and intellect”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 10, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.
in “agony”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 28, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“the trouble…fresh blossoms”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 10, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.
Ellen was vexed: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, May 21, 1855, and undated letter, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“his careless[ness]…feelings of all”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, undated, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“there is so much…overlook”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, May 21, 1855, Stanton Papers, DNA.
“blessed with…you condemn”: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, undated, Stanton Papers, DNA.
to marry Edwin on June 25, 1856: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, June 25, 1856, Stanton Papers, DNA.
Happier years followed: Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
to Washington…a brick mansion: Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton,
p. 79.
“Twenty-two…a monarch’s brow”: AL, “Fragment on Stephen A. Douglas,” [December 1856?], in
CW,
II, pp. 382–83.
“She had…ambition”: John T. Stuart interview, late June 1865, in
HI,
p. 63.
“I would rather…in the world”: MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Todd Edwards interview, 1865–1866, in
HI,
p. 444.
“a very little…does physically”: Helm,
The True Story of Mary,
p. 140.
“no equal in the United States”: MTL, quoted in ibid., p. 144.
“unladylike”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 21.
“the first bugle call…a new party”: Schurz,
Reminiscences,
Vol. II, p. 34.