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a dreary day, November 2, 1858: Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., November 3, 1858.
Lincoln anxiously awaited the returns: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, p. 43; Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 173.
"by the gerrymandering...Republican votes": Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 68.
John Crittenden: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 118.
"Thousands of Whigs...influence of Crittenden": WHH to Theodore Parker, November 8, 1858, quoted in Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, p. 49.
"The emotions of defeat...anything dishonorable": AL to John J. Crittenden, November 4, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 33536.
"I am glad...after I am gone": AL to Anson G. Henry, November 19, 1858, in ibid., p. 339.
"must not be surrendered...hundred defeats": AL to Henry Asbury, November 19, 1858, in ibid., p. 339.
"You will soon...have fun again": AL to Charles H. Ray, November 20, 1858, in ibid., p. 342.
CHAPTER 7: COUNTDOWN TO THE NOMINATION
"decided impression...candidate for the presidency": Jesse W. Fell, quoted in Oldroyd, comp., The Lincoln Memorial, p. 474.
"so much better known...you or anybody else": AL, quoted by Jesse W. Fell, quoted in ibid., pp. 474, 476.
when the Republican editor..."for the Presidency": Thomas J. Pickett to AL, April 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
"I certainly am...fit for the Presidency": AL to Thomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1859, in CW, III, p. 377.
Certain that Seward...overseas for eight months: Luthin, First Lincoln Campaign, p. 31.
"All our discreet friends...recess of Congress": WHS to George W. Patterson, April 6, 1859, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 196.
f.a.n.n.y Seward desolate...approaching departure: April 1859 entries, Frances (f.a.n.n.y) Adeline Seward diary, reel 198, Seward Papers [hereafter f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers].
description of f.a.n.n.y Seward, literary pursuits: Johnson, "Sensitivity and Civil War," pp. 27, 7678, 8384.
"'my affinity'...instead of speak": f.a.n.n.y Seward, quoted in ibid., p. 55.
Seward in Europe: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, pp. 362436.
prepared a major address: Taylor, William Henry Seward, pp. 11516.
Henry Stanton later..."posterity together": Stanton, Random Recollections, pp. 21213.
"I wish it were over": FAS to William H. Seward, Jr., February 29, 1860, reel 115, Seward Papers.
f.a.n.n.y...seated in the gallery: Entry for February 29, 1860, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"The whole house...was very still": Entry for February 29, 1860, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
Seward took as his theme: WHS, February 29, 1860, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 91014.
"'the irrepressible conflict'...the political aspirants": Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 519.
"differences of opinion...always of their wants": WHS, February 29, 1860, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 91214.
produced deafening applause: Entry for February 29, 1860, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers; Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 197, 198; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 220.
half a million copies were circulated: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 219.
"killed Seward with me forever": Ca.s.sius Marcellus Clay, The Life of Ca.s.sius Marcellus Clay. Memoirs, Writings, and Speeches, Showing His Conduct in the Overthrow of American Slavery, the Salvation of the Union, and the Restoration of the Autonomy of the United States (n.p.: J. Fletcher Brennan & Co., 1886; New York: Negro Universities Press/Greenwood Publis.h.i.+ng Corp., 1969), pp. 24243.
"as an intellectual...agrees with me": CS to d.u.c.h.ess Elizabeth Argyll, March 2, 1860, reel 74, Sumner Papers.
"From the stand-point...matter of party justice": Frederick Dougla.s.s, "Mr. Seward's Great Speech," Dougla.s.s' Monthly (April 1860).
"I hear of ultra...equally satisfactory": Samuel Bowles to TW, March 5, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 260.
"seems to be...set toward Seward": Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 519.
Weed a.s.sured him that everything was in readiness: TW to WHS, May 2, 6, and 8, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
"oceans of money": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.
a longing for political office: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-Century Crusader, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), pp. 11617, 18586; Thurlow Weed, "Recollections of Horace Greeley," Galaxy 15 (March 1873), pp. 37980.
Greeley's plaintive letter to Seward: Horace Greeley to WHS, November 11, 1854, reel 48, Seward Papers.
"full of sharp, p.r.i.c.king thorns": WHS to TW, November 12, 1854, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 239.
mistakenly a.s.sumed..."mortal offense": Carpenter, "A Day with Governor Seward," Seward Papers.
"insinuated...to the nomination": Henry Raymond, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 274.
Weed had a long talk with Greeley..."all right": WHS to home, Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 395.
Weed's failure to meet...Seward relayed the message: WHS to TW, March 15, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 261.
Seward's visit to Lochiel: WHS to TW, April 11, 1859, Weed Papers; Lee F. Crippen, Simon Cameron, Antebellum, The American Scene: Comments and Commentators series (Oxford, Ohio, 1942; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), p. 209.
"He took me...to embarra.s.s me": WHS to TW, April 11, 1859, Weed Papers.
"an honest politician...stays bought": Simon Cameron, quoted in Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 46.
"so much money...man in Pennsylvania": NYT, June 3, 1878.
Cameron's political offices: Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 26.
