Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bates himself…“a good many papers”: Entry of April 7, 1860, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 118.
“knowing the fickleness…a failure”: Entry of February 28, 1860, in ibid., pp. 105–06.
“neither on the left…dead center”: Fehrenbacher,
Prelude to Greatness,
p. 147.
“fairly headed off…of ultimate extinction”: AL to John L. Scripps, June 23, 1858, in
CW,
II, p. 471.
He arranged to publish: Baringer,
Lincoln’s Rise to Power,
pp. 128, 137, 171; Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 237.
nearly two dozen speeches: Fehrenbacher,
Prelude to Greatness,
pp. 143–44; Baringer,
Lincoln’s Rise to Power,
chapter 3.
“I think it is…into Liberty”: James A. Briggs to AL, November 1, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
The crowds that greeted…“many a day”:
Janesville Gazette,
quoted in Baringer,
Lincoln’s Rise to Power,
pp. 110–11 (quote p. 110).
“Douglasism…of Republicanism”: AL to SPC, September 21, 1859, in
CW,
III, p. 471.
stop was Cincinnati: Baringer,
Lincoln’s Rise to Power,
pp. 103–07.
“greeted with…rising star”: Dickson, “Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,”
Harper’s New Monthly
(1884), p. 65.
Lincoln’s speech in Cincinnati: AL, “Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio,” September 17, 1859, in
CW,
III, p. 454.
“as an effort…had ever heard”:
Cincinnati Gazette,
reprinted in
Illinois State Journal,
Springfield, Ill., October 7, 1859.
Lincoln’s crowded schedule…“the women come”: Joshua F. Speed to AL, September 22, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“Your visit to Ohio…in your favor”: Samuel Galloway to AL, October 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“We must take…are my choice”: Samuel Galloway to AL, July 23, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“to hedge against…we shall disagree”: AL to Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859, in
CW,
III, pp. 390–91.
Colfax appreciated…“throughout the Union”: Schuyler Colfax to AL, July 14, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“with foolish pikes”: Stephen Vincent Benét,
John Brown’s Body
(New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1927; 1955), p. 52.
John Brown at Harpers Ferry: See chapter 19 of Stephen B. Oates,
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
(New York: Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 290–306.
“I am waiting…& of humanity”: John Brown to his family, November 30, 1859, quoted in Oswald Garrison Villard,
John Brown, 1800–1859: A Biography Fifty Years After
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910), p. 551.
the dignity…eloquence of his statements: Villard,
John Brown, 1800–1859,
pp. 538–39.
His death…“resolutions were adopted”: Potter,
The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861,
p. 378.
“sent a shiver of fear…woman, and child”:
Press and Tribune,
Chicago, October 22, 1859.
“Harper’s Ferry…dissolution must ensue”:
Richmond Enquirer,
November 25, 1859.
“like a great…that abyss”: Craven,
The Growth of Southern Nationalism,
p. 309.
“Weird John Brown”: Herman Melville, “The Portent,” in
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War,
reprinted in
The Poems of Herman Melville,
rev. edn., ed. Douglas Robillard (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 2000), p. 53.
“I do not exaggerate…in great numbers”: Robert Bunch, December 9, 1859, quoted in Laura A. White, “The South in the 1850’s as Seen by British Consuls,”
Journal of Southern History
I (February 1935), p. 44.
“for seditious…in a good cause”: Editor’s description of
St. Louis News
article of November 23, 1859, pasted in entry of November 23, 1859, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 65.
“the natural fruits…his subordinates”:
Charleston [S.C.] Mercury,
December 16, 1859.
“one hundred gentlemen”…and Colfax: Advertisement by “Richmond,” quoted in Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
p. 440.
“The first overt act…the Shenandoah”:
NYH,
October 19, 1859.
“necessary and just”: WHS, “The State of the Country,” February 29, 1860, in
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. IV, p. 637.
“seeking to plunge…universal condemnation”:
Albany Evening Journal,
October 19, 1859.
“the wild extravagance…a madman”: Entry of October 25, 1859, in
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
pp. 50–51.
He discussed the incident…“his [dagger]”: Entry of November 21, 1859, in ibid., p. 63.
“for a household…attempted to do”: Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories. Salmon P. Chase’s Home Life,”
NYTrib,
February 15, 1891.
Lincoln was back on the campaign trail: Baringer,
Lincoln’s Rise to Power,
p. 124; entry for December 2, 1859,
Lincoln Day by Day,
Vol. II, pp. 266–67.
“the attempt…electioneering dodge”: “Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 5, 1859, synopsis of speech printed in the
Leavenworth Times,
December 6, 1859, in
CW,
III, p. 503.
“make the gallows…the cross”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Courage,” November 7, 1859, lecture in Boston, as reported by the
NYTrib,
quoted in John McAleer,
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter
(Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1984), p. 532.
“great courage”…“rare unselfishness”: Elwood
Free Press
on AL, “Speech at Elwood, Kansas,” December 1 [November 30?], 1859, in
CW,
III, p. 496.
“that cannot…think himself right”: AL, “Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 3, 1859, in ibid., p. 502.
Republican National Committee at Astor House: Luthin,
The First Lincoln Campaign,
pp. 20–21.
“attach more consequence”: AL to Norman B. Judd, December 14, 1859, in
CW,
III, p. 509.
“good neutral ground…an even chance”: Archie Jones, “The 1860 Republican Convention,” transcript of Chicago station WAAF radio broadcast, May 16, 1960, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill.
“carefully kept…on the nomination”: Whitney,
Lincoln the Citizen,
Vol. I, p. 285.
“promised that…furnished free”:
Press and Tribune,
Chicago, December 27, 1859.
Chicago beat St. Louis by a single vote: Luthin,
The First Lincoln Campaign,
p. 21.
“a cheap excursion…of the State”: Whitney,
Lincoln the Citizen,
Vol. I, p. 285.
“I like the place…take exception to it”: John Bigelow to WHS, January 18, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“Had the convention…been the nominee”: Charles Gibson, “Edward Bates,”
Missouri Historical Society Collections
II (January 1900), p. 55.
“there is not…not much of me”: AL to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859, in
CW,
III, p. 511.
“a wild region…in the woods”: AL, “Autobiography by Abraham Lincoln, enclosed with Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell,” December 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 511.
“If any thing…written by myself”: AL to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 511.
he received an invitation: James A. Briggs to AL, October 12, 1859, Lincoln Papers; Harold Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 10.
“His clothes were travel-stained…for Monday night”: Henry C. Bowen, paraphrased in Henry B. Rankin,
Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln
(Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1924), pp. 179–80.
“Well, B…. as a man ought to want”: “Recollections of Mr. McCormick,” in Wilson,
Intimate Memories of Lincoln,
p. 251 (quote); Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union,
p. 86. Holzer identifies “B.” as Mayson Brayman.
Lincoln paid a visit…“shorten [his] neck”: AL, quoted in James D. Horan,
Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), p. 31. For portrait, see plate 93 in Horan.
weather and attendance: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
p. 202; Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union,
pp. 103, 303 n55.
“this western man”: Rankin,
Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 173.
Lincoln’s appearance: Herndon and Weik,
Herndon’s Life of Lincoln,
p. 369.
“one of the legs…longer than his sleeves”: Russell H. Conwell, “Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women,” quoted in Wayne Whipple,
The Story-Life of Lincoln. A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
(Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1908), p. 308.
had labored to craft his address: Rankin,
Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 174–75; Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union,
pp. 50–53.
“Our fathers…protection a necessity”:
AL, “Address at Cooper Institute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in
CW,
III, pp. 522, 535.
a “hue and cry…never can be reversed”: AL, “Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in
CW,
I, p. 273.
Cooper Union speech: AL, “Address at Cooper Institute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in
CW,
III, pp. 522–50, esp. 537, 538, 547, 550.
erupted in thunderous applause: Baringer,
Lincoln’s Rise to Power,
pp. 158–59.
Briggs predicted…“have heard tonight”: James Briggs, quoted in Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union,
p. 147.
“When I came out…‘since St. Paul’”: Unknown observer, quoted in ibid., p. 146.
undertaking an exhausting tour: See copies of Lincoln’s speeches in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, in
CW,
III, pp. 550–54, and speeches in Connecticut,
CW,
IV, pp. 2–30; Holzer,
Lincoln at Cooper Union,
pp. 176–77.
He was forced to decline…“before the fall elections”: AL to Isaac Pomeroy, March 3, 1860, in
CW,
III, p. 554.
“being within my calculation…ideas in print”: AL to MTL, March 4, 1860, in ibid., p. 555.
Lincoln first met Gideon Welles: J. Doyle DeWitt,
Lincoln in Hartford
(privately printed: n.d.), p. 5; John Niven,
Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 287, 289.
Gideon Welles’s appearance and career: John T. Morse, Introduction,
Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson,
Vol. I:
1861–March 30, 1864
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press, 1911), pp. xvii–xxi; Richard S. West, Jr.,
Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Navy Department
(Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943).
“the party of the Southern slaveocracy”: Morse, Introduction,
Diary of Gideon Welles
(1911 edn.), p. xix.
had settled on Chase…“very expensive rulers”: West,
Gideon Welles,
pp. 78–79, 81 (quote p. 78).
Lincoln and Welles spent several hours: DeWitt,
Lincoln in Hartford,
p. 5; Niven,
Gideon Welles,
p. 289.
the Hartford speech: AL, “Speech at New Haven, Connecticut,” March 6, 1860, in
CW,
IV, p. 18.
“as if the people…out loud”: James Russell Lowell, “Abraham Lincoln,” in
The Writings of James Russell Lowell,
Vol. V,
Political Essays
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892), p. 208.
“introduced the Trojan horse”: WHS, “Admission of Kansas. Speech of Hon. W. H. Seward, of New York, In the Senate, April 9, 1856,”
Appendix to the Congressional Globe,
34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 405.
Lincoln met with Welles again: “The Career of Gideon Welles,” typescript manuscript draft, Henry B. Learned Papers, reel 36, Welles Papers; Hendrick,
Lincoln’s War Cabinet,
p. 78.
“This orator…in his logic”: GW’s editorial in
Hartford Evening Press,
quoted in West,
Gideon Welles,
p. 81.
“I have been sufficiently…and learned men”: Rev. J. P. Gulliver article in
New York Independent,
September 1, 1864, quoted in Carpenter,
Six Months at the White House,
p. 311.
“I think your chance…man in the country”: James A. Briggs, “Narrative of James A. Briggs, Esq.,”
New York Evening Post,
August 16, 1867, reprinted in
An Authentic Account of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Being Invited to give an Address in Cooper Institute, N.Y., February 27, 1860
(Putnam, Conn.: privately printed, 1915), n.p.