Seward received the news..."on the next ballot": Stanton, Random Recollections, pp. 21516 (quote p. 216).
"rightly [judged] that...to bring": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 452.
turned "as pale as ashes": Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 216.
"that it was no ordinary...and irrevocable": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 452.
"The sad tidings...clouded brow": Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 216.
"of his sanguine...Few men can": Entry for May 19, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.
"he took the blow...family and the world": Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 228, 229.
"Father told Mother...unselfish coolness": Entry for May 18, 1860, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
"No truer...nomination have fallen": WHS for the Auburn Daily Advertiser, in "Biographical Memoir of William H. Seward," Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 79.
"You have my...light as my own": WHS to TW, May 18, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 270; WHS to TW, May 18, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 453.
in a public letter..."progress of that cause": WHS to the New York Republican Central Committee, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 454.
"It was only some months...cursing and swearing": Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 229.
"When I remember...compet.i.tion with his": SPC to Robert Hosea, June 5, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
For years, Chase was racked: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 126.
"adhesion of the...own State Convention": SPC to AL, misdated as May 17, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln responded graciously: AL to SPC, May 26, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 53.
"While the victory...most profoundly": Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 18687.
"melancholy ceremony": Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, Ohio, May 19, 1860.
"As for me...I have ever known": EB to Horace Greeley, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 148.
"Some of my friends...border slave states": Entry of May 19, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 129, 13031.
Some claim...Others maintain: See Conkling, "How Mr. Lincoln Received the News," Transactions (1909), p. 65; Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 358; Illinois State Register, February 13, 1903.
"Mr. Lincoln...you are nominated": quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 358
office of the Illinois State Journal: Charles S. Zane interview, 18651866, in HI, p. 492; Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 22, 1860.
he "looked at it...all around": Chicago Journal correspondent, quoted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, May 25, 1860.
"I knew...second ballot": AL, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 250.
"My friends...at last had come": quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 358.
"the hearty western"...rotunda of the Capitol: "Ecarte" [John Hay], Providence [R.I.] Journal, May 26, 1860, reprinted in Lincoln"s Journalist: John Hay"s Anonymous Writings for the Press, 18601864, ed. Michael Burlingame (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998), p. 1.
"the signal for immense...a great party": Missouri Republican, May 20, 1860.
"the fact of...of Lincoln": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 176.
"The leader of...against a leader": T. S. Verdi, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of the Sewards," The Republic 1 (July 1873), pp. 28990.
Some have pointed to luck...held in Chicago: See Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 5; Alexander McClure, quoted in Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 10.
"Had the Convention...nominated": Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 80.
Lincoln"s team in Chicago played the game: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 42728; Stampp, "The Republican National Convention of 1860," in Stampp, The Imperiled Union, pp. 155, 15758.
Lincoln was the best prepared: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 2.
speeches possessed unmatched...moral strength: Miller, Lincoln"s Virtues, pp. 397401.
"his avoidance of extremes...off its balance": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 16, 1860.
"comparatively unknown": Verdi, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of the Sewards," The Republic (1873), p. 290.
"give no offence...their first love": AL to Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 34.
he had not made enemies: Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., March 23, 1860.
"an ambition...overindulgence": Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 161.
CHAPTER 9: "A MAN KNOWS HIS OWN NAME"
"was received...so we adjourned": Entry for May 18, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.
journals..."Abraham": NYT, May 21, 1860.
"it is but fair...his own name": NYH, June 5, 1860.
"It seems as if..."Abraham"": AL to George Ashmun, June 4, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 68.
"a third rate Western...clumsy jokes": NYH, May 19, 1860.
"Lincoln is the leanest...being ugly": Houston Telegraph, quoted in NYTrib, June 12, 1860.
"After him...be President?": Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, June 9, 1860, quoted in Emerson David Fite, The First Presidential Campaign, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911), p. 210.
"thrust aside...freesoil border-ruffian": Charleston Mercury, October 15, 1860.