"In these troublous...here at once": AL to SPC, December 31, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 168.
"they should be placed...been your friends": Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
"from very strong and unexpected quarters": AL to Hannibal Hamlin, November 27, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 145.
Cameron to Springfield: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, p. 25.
"The unexpected arrival"...unsavory reputation: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of "61, pp. 4546 (quotes p. 45).
reached the Chenery House: Entry for December 30, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 304.
"Shall I have the honor...to call here?": Simon Cameron to AL, December 30, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
conversation between Lincoln and Cameron: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 2526.
"an exuberant school boy": Erwin Stanley Bradley, Simon Cameron, Lincoln"s Secretary of War: A Political Biography (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), p. 168.
"There is an odor...such an appointment": Lyman Trumbull to AL, December 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
"Since seeing you...tendered you": AL to Simon Cameron, January 3, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 16970.
"travel-stained...from Columbus": Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 222 (quote); entry for January 4, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 3.
meeting between Lincoln and Chase..."offer it to you": Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 201.
"I frankly said...could give": SPC to George Opd.y.k.e, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
"without hesitation...the advice of friends": SPC to George Opd.y.k.e, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
Chase attended Sunday church: Entry for January 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 18091865. Vol. III: 18611865, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), p. 4.
Lincoln meets with Koerner and Judd: Entry for January 6, 1861, ibid., pp. 34.
"I am in a quandary...at the convention": Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 114.
"It seems to me...brought to co-operate": AL to Lyman Trumbull, January 7, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 171.
"under great anxiety...I consistently can": AL to Simon Cameron, January 13, 1861, in ibid., p. 174.
"were entirely free & unreserved": SPC to James S. Pike, January 10, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
"What is done...to Springfield": SPC to Hiram Barney, January 8, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
had convinced Lincoln...official offers: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 220.
"I think that in allowing...and accept it": SPC to Elizabeth Ellicott Pike, January 27, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
"a s...o...b..lling process": Elbert B. Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975), p. 138.
"desired by all...of the mult.i.tude": Charleston Courier, quoted in Richmond Enquirer, November 16, 1860.
the election of a...the John Brown raid: Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan, pp. 12932.
The bachelor president..."let out from school": Sara Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War, rev. and enlarged edn. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904; New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905; 1908), pp. 11011 (quotes p. 111).
"looked stunned...of his chair": Entry for December 20, 1860, in E. B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 18611865 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), p. 13.
"both the authority...integrity": [JGN to TB?], November 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
"indefatigable...authorities, etc.": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of "61, p. 37.
willing to reduce..."a period of years": AL, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 161.
"a position towards...for his election": Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 105.
He was determined to stand...impact on the South: Donald, Lincoln, p. 260.
"I could say nothing...clamor all the louder": AL to Nathaniel P. Paschall, November 16, 1860, in CW, IV, pp. 13940.
"each and all of the States...any administration": AL, "Pa.s.sage Written for Lyman Trumbull"s Speech at Springfield, Illinois," November 20, 1860, in ibid., p. 141.
"On the contrary...war against them": AL to Henry J. Raymond, November 28, 1860, in ibid., p. 146.
"has eyes...does not hear": AL, quoted in Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 213.
"blaze of pa.s.sion...offended deity": William Smedes to Henry J. Raymond, December 8, 1860, enclosed in Raymond to AL, December 14, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
"What a very mad-man...forgery out and out": AL to Henry J. Raymond, December 18, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 156.
the "Great Secession Winter": See Henry Adams, The Great Secession Winter of 186061 and Other Essays, ed. George Hochfield (New York: Sagamore Press, 1958).
"no compromise...any time hereafter": AL to Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1860, in CW, IV, pp. 14950.
"fugitive slaves...amongst us": AL to WHS, February 1, 1861, in ibid., p. 183.
"the Const.i.tution should"...Fugitive Slave Law be repealed: Footnote to AL, "Resolutions Drawn up for Republican Members of Senate Committee of Thirteen," [December 20, 1860], in ibid., p. 157n.
Seward agreed...John Crittenden: WHS to AL, December 26, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
The Crittenden Compromise: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 53132.
"the slightest...Loyalty stronger": WHS to AL, December 26, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
three federal forts...all three were in its domain: Entry for December 22, 1860, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 14.
three commissioners...Buchanan administration: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 95.
"From the first...the federal government": JGN to TB, December 30, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.