Dred Scott was sold...to slavery: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, p. 290.
Speaking in Springfield..."circ.u.mstances should permit": AL, "Speech at Springfield, Illinois," June 16, 1857, in CW, II, pp. 398410 (quotes p. 403, 405, 406).
"The day of inauguration...English liberty": WHS, "Kansas-Lecompton Const.i.tution," March 3, 1858, Senate, Congressional Globe, 35th Cong., 1st sess., p. 941.
reaction to Seward speech...access to the White House: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 190.
"have refused...to such a man": Samuel Tyler, Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney (Baltimore, 1872; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), p. 391.
Seward"s Rochester, New York, speech: WHS, "The Irrepressible Conflict, Rochester, October 25, 1858," in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, pp. 289302 (quotes pp. 291, 292; italics added).
Frances Seward...stance of the South: FAS to CS, January 4, 1859, reel 17, Sumner Papers.
"that troubled...irrepressible?": Kenneth M. Stampp, "The Irrepressible Conflict," in Stampp, The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980; 1981), p. 191.
uproar in opposition papers: Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., October 28, 1858.
"more repulsive...Rev. Dr. Parker": NYH, October 28, 1858.
"never comprehended...words": Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, p. 191.
"if heaven...do it again": WHS, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 194.
conciliatory...with his adversaries: David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1942), pp. 2526.
"alarm and apprehension": WHS to FAS, February 9, 1849, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 98.
"This general impression..."Night"s Dream"": WHS to FAS, February 9, 1849, quoted in ibid., p. 98.
"Those who a.s.sailed...pinch of snuff": Albany Evening Journal, May 19, 1890.
Seward"s extravagant dinner parties: Columbus [Ohio] Gazette, April 6, 1860 (quotes); Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 25758.
a trip through Canada: Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, pp. 30122; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 183.
"voyage of discovery": FPB to WHS, October 5, 1857, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 324.
"very best traveling"...elegant meals: FPB to WHS, November 1, 1857, quoted in ibid., p. 326.
"At an age...of the nation": Cincinnati Enquirer, August 6, 1899.
"a scientific knowledge...surpa.s.sed": Peac.o.c.k, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, p. 214.
"Her complexion...of her head": Sara A. Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War. Revised and enlarged ed. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905), pp. 7576.
Gothic mansion on Sixth Street: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 200, 201, 204; SPC to KCS, December 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
"I feel I am...trust yours": SPC to KCS, December 5, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
"you have capacity and will do very well": SPC to KCS, December 4, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
role of Ohio"s first lady: Ross, Proud Kate, pp. 3233, 3637.
"I knew all...very early age": "Kate Chase in 1893," undated newspaper clipping from the Star, KCS vertical file, DCPL.
first dinner "in society...very beautiful": Howells, Years of My Youth, pp. 15455.
led to a tryst...end to the relationship: Columbus Special to the Chicago Times, reprinted in Cincinnati Enquirer, August 13, 1879.
"I find that...any other man": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, November 3, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
met in Lecompton...applied for statehood: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 300, 30607, 31315, 31820, 32225.
now siding with the Republicans: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 316, 318, 32021.
"My objection...a slave State": Stephen A. Douglas"s speech, "Third Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Illinois," September 15, 1858, in CW, III, p. 115.
He cared not...voted up or down: AL on Stephen Douglas, in "A House Divided": Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, p. 463.
"was not the act...embody their will": Stephen A. Douglas"s speech, "Third Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Illinois," September 15, 1858, in CW, III, p. 115.
"What can...freedom and justice": WHS to [FAS?], December 10, 1857, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 330.
Greeley called on Illinois Republicans: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 61.
Lincoln at once...destroyed the Republican Party: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, May 27, 1858, in CW, II, p. 455; AL to SPC, April 30, 1859, in CW, III, p. 378; Donald, Lincoln, pp. 204, 208.
"accosted by friends...to go under": AL, "Fragment of a Speech," [c. May 18, 1858], in CW, II, p. 448.
"What does...here in Illinois?": AL to Lyman Trumbull, December 28, 1857, in ibid., p. 430.
"incapable of...pure republican position": AL to Charles L. Wilson, June 1, 1858, in ibid., p. 457.
interference of the Eastern Republicans: Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Ill., June 16, 1858; Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, pp. 6263.
"Abraham Lincoln...United States Senate": Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 179.
a statewide Republican convention..."Stephen A. Douglas": Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, pp. 63, 48 (quote p. 48).
"A house divided...another Supreme Court decision": AL, "A House Divided": Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, pp. 461, 46567. "A House Divided" appears in the Bible in Matthew 12:25; Mark 3:24.
If "the point...talking about": James M. McPherson, "How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors," Eighth Annual R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, 1985, reprinted in James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 104.
"weight and authority...not promise to ever be": AL, "A House Divided": Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, pp. 46263, 46768.
"What if Judge"...to extend slavery: AL"s reply, "First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois," August 21, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 22, 20 (quote p. 22).
"planned to seize...nationalize slavery": Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, p. 77.