"to surrender...hang him!": JGN to [TB?], December 22, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
"to either hold... may require": AL to Elihu B. Washburne, December 21, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 159.
"vying"...bolster Buchanan"s will: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 91, 93 (quote).
Anderson preempted...Castle Pinckney: Entries for December 26 and 27, 1860, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 1516.
Buchanan agreed...and headed north: Entries for January 2, 5, 8, and 9, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 2124; entries for January 4 and 5, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 3.
"a feverish excitement": WHS to AL, December 28, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Edwin Stanton..."traitors and spies": Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in George C. Gorham, Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, Vol. I (2 vols., Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and The Riverside Press, 1899), p. 168.
If Maryland and Virginia..."& the navy": Stephen H. Phillips to Horace Gray, January 31, 1861, Papers of Horace Gray, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.
"be made to believe... this danger": EMS to SPC, January 23, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
"came to a momentous...for him to turn": Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 98 (first quote), 99 (second quote), 100.
Watson would call..."discussed and settled": Henry Wilson, "Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870), p. 465.
"At length I have gotten...prudence is omitted": WHS to AL, December 29, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
"treason is all around and amongst us": WHS to FAS, December 29, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 488.
"abettors near the President": WHS to TW, December 29, 1860, quoted in ibid., p. 487.
Stanton secretly spread word: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 108, 110, 111; Henry Wilson, "Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly 25 (February 1870), p. 237.
"By early disclosure...enemies of their country": Henry L. Dawes, "Washington the Winter Before the War," Atlantic Monthly 72 (August 1893), p. 163.
Stanton invited Sumner to his office: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 111; Wilson, "Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly (1870), p. 466.
"found and read...place of deposit": Dawes, "Washington the Winter Before the War," Atlantic Monthly (1893), p. 163.
"held the key to all discontent": "Two Ma.n.u.scripts of Gideon Welles," ed. Muriel Bernitt, New England Quarterly XI (September 1938), p. 589.
"came to be regarded...Republican party": Wilson, "Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton," Atlantic Monthly (1870), p. 465.
"By common consent...ruler of the country": Adams, The Great Secession Winter, p. 22.
"Never in the history...from Lincoln himself": Chicago Tribune, January 17, 1861.
"The families of nearly"...Jefferson Davis: NYTrib, January 19, 1861.
"No man was...his every word": Boston Atlas and Bee, reprinted Cincinnati Commercial, January 20, 1861.
"to set forth...destruction would involve": NYT, January 14, 1861.
of "perpetual civil war...everything is lost": WHS, January 12, 1861, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd sess., p. 342.
"difficult to restrain...his handkerchief": Boston Atlas and Bee, reprinted Cincinnati Commercial, January 20, 1861.
"to meet prejudice...shall have ended": WHS, January 12, 1861, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd sess., pp. 34344.
five Southern senators: See farewell remarks of Senators Yulee, Mallory, Clay, Fitzpatrick, and Davis, January 21, 1861, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd sess., pp. 48487; entry for January 21, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 2829.
"inexpressibly sad": William C. Davis, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), pp. 29596 (quote p. 296).
"in a state...on despair": NYT, January 23, 1861.
"I am sure...wish you well": Farewell remarks of Jefferson Davis, January 21, 1861, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd sess., p. 487.
Seward himself had visited...Democrats and Republicans: Davis, Jefferson Davis, p. 261.
"Your man outtalked...but I didn"t": Ishbel Ross, First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis (New York: Harper & Bros., 1958), p. 85.
"Mrs Jef asked me...bonds between us": EBL to SPL, December 17, 1860, in ed. Laas, Wartime Washington, p. 18.
packed up their belongings..."ended in Washington": Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington, 18601865 (New York: Harper & Row, 1941; New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991), p. 31.
His "great wish...of the disunionists": Adams, The Great Secession Winter, pp. 13, 14.
"As an indication...of every section": NYT, January 14, 1861.
"many are sanguine...tide of secession": NYT, January 16, 1861.
"fought...took new courage": Adams, The Great Secession Winter, p. 23.
"Secession has run its course": Entry for February 20, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong. Vol. III: The Civil War, 18601865, ed. Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1952), p. 100.
"for the new Administration...to subside": WHS to FAS, January 23, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 497.
"I deplore S[eward]"s speech": CS to John Jay, January 17, 1861, reel 74, Sumner Papers.
"read me his speech...no such thing": CS to Samuel Gridley Howe, January 17, 1861, reel 64, Sumner Papers.
"seeks to purchase peace...years war": Thaddeus Stevens to SPC, February 3, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
"What do you think...be found wanting": Carl Schurz to his wife, February 4, 1861, in Carl Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 18411869, trans. and ed. Joseph Schafer, orig. published as Vol. x.x.x of the Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1928 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), pp. 24243.
"There he was...left him at Auburn": Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915, p. 79.
"Eloquent as your speech...of your dangers": FAS to WHS, January 19, 1861, reel 14, Seward Papers.
"I am not surprised...most effective weapons": WHS to FAS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, pp. 49697.
"It will do...by and with": TW to WHS, January 19, 1861, reel 61, Seward Papers.