"a full view...and Virginia": William Q. Force, "Picture of Washington and its Vicinity for 1850," Washington, D.C., p. 49.
"stood pig-styes...over the fields": Samuel C. Busey, M.D., Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-Six Years" Membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and Residence in this City, with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Deceased Members (Washington, D.C.: [Philadelphia: Dornan, Printer], 1895), pp. 6465.
population of Washington: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II, p. 102.
Webster...would outlive the age: "12 October 1861, Sat.u.r.day," in John Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, ed. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), p. 26.
Jefferson Davis...Rhett, agitator of rebellion: Robert C. Byrd, The Senate, 17891989, Vol. I: Addresses on the History of the United States Senate, Bicentennial Edition, ed. Mary Sharon Hall (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1988), p. 182.
"he would lay down...merriment": Busey, Personal Reminiscences, pp. 25, 27.
Mary in Washington: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 10708; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 13640.
background of the Mexican War: Robert W. Johannsen, "Mexican War," in The Reader"s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 72224: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 47, 4950.
"a romantic...exotic land": Johannsen, "Mexican War," in The Reader"s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 723.
John Hardin, was..."G.o.d-speeds of men": Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II, pp. 7980.
"It is a fact...growing crops": AL to John M. Peck, May 21, 1848, in CW, I, p. 473.
combat ended, peace treaty: Johannsen, "Mexican War," in The Reader"s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 723.
"not let the whigs be silent": AL to Usher F. Linder, March 22, 1848, in CW, I, p. 457.
"the original justice...of the President": AL, "Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico," January 12, 1848, in ibid., p. 432.
"As you are...before long": AL to WHH, December 13, 1847, in ibid., p. 420.
"whether the particular...hostile array": AL, ""Spot" Resolutions in the United States House of Representatives," December 22, 1847, in ibid., p. 421.
"spotty Lincoln": Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II, p. 135.
"unnecessarily...be at ease": AL, "Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico," January 12, 1848, in CW, I, pp. 432, 433, 43941.
"treasonable a.s.sault"...only a single term: Illinois State Register, March 10, 1848, quoted in Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II, p. 135.
to "allow the President...deems it necessary": AL to WHH, February 15, 1848, in CW, I, p. 451.
"I saw that Lincoln...and again": WHH to JWW, February 11, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
only to infuriate the Democrats...fainthearted Whigs: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 12425.
"no...pestilence and famine": AL, quoting Justin b.u.t.terfield in entry for August 13, 1863, in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 73.
"Our population...sh.o.r.es of the Pacific": WHS, 1846, quoted in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 791.
"not expect...national adversaries": WHS to unknown recipient, May 28, 1846, in ibid., p. 809.
"would not have engaged in": SPC to Gerrit Smith, September 1, 1846, reel 6, Chase Papers.
"gross...plunder & conquest": Bates diary, March 13, 1848.
ashamed of his Whig..."Presidential election": Bates diary, March 14, 1848.
"a war of conquest...to catch votes": Delaware State Journal, June 13, 1848, quoted as "Speech at Wilmington, Delaware, June 10, 1848," in CW, I, p. 476.
David Wilmot...Senate: "Wilmot Proviso," in The Reader"s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 1155; David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, completed and ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher. New American Nation Series (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), pp. 2123 (quote p. 21).
Lincoln positioned himself..."exist in the old": AL to Williamson Durley, October 3, 1845, in CW, I, p. 348.
Bates considered the problem...pull the country apart: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 5960, 66.
John Calhoun led the...American territory: John C. Calhoun, February 19, 1847, Congressional Globe, 29th Cong., 2nd sess., pp. 45355 (quote p. 455).
"The madmen of the North...glorious Union": Richmond [Va.] Enquirer, February 18, 1847.
"When you were...marry again": AL to MTL, April 16, 1848, in CW, I, pp. 46566.
"My dear Husband...love to all": MTL to AL, May 1848, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 3638.
"The leading matter...till I see you": AL to MTL, June 12, 1848, in CW, I, p. 477.
"I am in favor...elect any other whig": AL to Thomas S. Flournoy, February 17, 1848, in ibid., p. 452.
"on the blind side...hanged themselves": AL to WHH, June 12, 1848, in ibid., p. 477.
"very willingly...Universal Freedom": WHS to SPC, June 12, 1848, reel 6, Chase Papers.
a "doughface": Anonymous, A Bake-Pan for Dough-Faces (Burlington, Vt.: Chauncey Goodrich, 1854), p. 1; Byrd, The Senate, 17891989, Vol. I, pp. 20607.
the Free Soil Convention in Buffalo, 1848: See Foner, Free Soil. Free Labor, Free Men, p. 125; Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 6166.
asking if his name...vice presidency: Bates diary, August 5, 1848.
remained a slaveowner: Entry for Edward Bates, Dardenne, St. Charles County, Missouri, Sixth Census of the United States, 1840 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704, reel 230), RG 29, DNA. According to Bates"s entry in the 1840s federal census, there were nine slaves in the Bates household. By 1860, the servants and farmhands employed by Bates seem to have been exclusively Irish. Entry for Edward Bates, Carondelet, St. Louis Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, reel 656), RG 29, DNA.
his belief in the inferiority of the black race: Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, p. 46.
one of his female slaves escaped..."plagued with them": Bates diary, April 15, 1848.
Bates declined..."geographical party": Bates diary, August 5, 1848.
"Free Soil, Free Speech": SPC to Thomas Bolton, December 1, 1848, reel 7, Chase Papers.
to "prohibit slavery extension": Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Old Northwest, p. 140.
Arriving uninvited...without a speaker: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II, pp. 17172.