"Well, B.... as a man ought to want": "Recollections of Mr. McCormick," in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 251 (quote); Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 86. Holzer identifies "B." as Mayson Brayman.
Lincoln paid a visit..."shorten [his] neck": AL, quoted in James D. Horan, Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), p. 31. For portrait, see plate 93 in Horan.
weather and attendance: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 202; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 103, 303 n55.
"this western man": Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, p. 173.
Lincoln"s appearance: Herndon and Weik, Herndon"s Life of Lincoln, p. 369.
"one of the legs...longer than his sleeves": Russell H. Conwell, "Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women," quoted in Wayne Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln. A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1908), p. 308.
had labored to craft his address: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 17475; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 5053.
"Our fathers...protection a necessity": AL, "Address at Cooper Inst.i.tute, New York City," February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 522, 535.
a "hue and cry...never can be reversed": AL, "Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society," February 22, 1842, in CW, I, p. 273.
Cooper Union speech: AL, "Address at Cooper Inst.i.tute, New York City," February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 52250, esp. 537, 538, 547, 550.
erupted in thunderous applause: Baringer, Lincoln"s Rise to Power, pp. 15859.
Briggs predicted..."have heard tonight": James Briggs, quoted in Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 147.
"When I came out..."since St. Paul"": Unknown observer, quoted in ibid., p. 146.
undertaking an exhausting tour: See copies of Lincoln"s speeches in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, in CW, III, pp. 55054, and speeches in Connecticut, CW, IV, pp. 230; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 17677.
He was forced to decline..."before the fall elections": AL to Isaac Pomeroy, March 3, 1860, in CW, III, p. 554.
"being within my calculation...ideas in print": AL to MTL, March 4, 1860, in ibid., p. 555.
Lincoln first met Gideon Welles: J. Doyle DeWitt, Lincoln in Hartford (privately printed: n.d.), p. 5; John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln"s Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 287, 289.
Gideon Welles"s appearance and career: John T. Morse, Introduction, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. I: 1861March 30, 1864 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press, 1911), pp. xviixxi; Richard S. West, Jr., Gideon Welles: Lincoln"s Navy Department (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943).
"the party of the Southern slaveocracy": Morse, Introduction, Diary of Gideon Welles (1911 edn.), p. xix.
had settled on Chase..."very expensive rulers": West, Gideon Welles, pp. 7879, 81 (quote p. 78).
Lincoln and Welles spent several hours: DeWitt, Lincoln in Hartford, p. 5; Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 289.
the Hartford speech: AL, "Speech at New Haven, Connecticut," March 6, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 18.
"as if the people...out loud": James Russell Lowell, "Abraham Lincoln," in The Writings of James Russell Lowell, Vol. V, Political Essays (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892), p. 208.
"introduced the Trojan horse": WHS, "Admission of Kansas. Speech of Hon. W. H. Seward, of New York, In the Senate, April 9, 1856," Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 405.
Lincoln met with Welles again: "The Career of Gideon Welles," typescript ma.n.u.script draft, Henry B. Learned Papers, reel 36, Welles Papers; Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, p. 78.
"This orator...in his logic": GW"s editorial in Hartford Evening Press, quoted in West, Gideon Welles, p. 81.
"I have been sufficiently...and learned men": Rev. J. P. Gulliver article in New York Independent, September 1, 1864, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 311.
"I think your chance...man in the country": James A. Briggs, "Narrative of James A. Briggs, Esq.," New York Evening Post, August 16, 1867, reprinted in An Authentic Account of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Being Invited to give an Address in Cooper Inst.i.tute, N.Y., February 27, 1860 (Putnam, Conn.: privately printed, 1915), n.p.
"When I was East...to the best": AL, quoted in Briggs, "Narrative of James A. Briggs, Esq."
At the end of January 1859: Lyman Trumbull to AL, January 29, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
"Any effort...a rival of yours": AL to Lyman Trumbull, February 3, 1859, in CW, III, pp. 35556.
"A word now...suggestions of this sort": AL to Lyman Trumbull, April 29, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 46.
Lincoln"s effort to defuse...Judd and Wentworth: Don E. Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth (Madison, Wisc.: American History Research Center, 1957), pp. 163, 16974.
Wentworth would drag out..."at Lincoln"s expense": Note 1, accompanying transcript of AL to Norman B. Judd, December 9, 1859, Lincoln Papers (quote); Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant, pp. 16970.
Lincoln hastened to rea.s.sure..."go uncontradicted": AL to Norman B. Judd, December 9, 1859, in CW, III, p. 505.
Judd brought a libel suit...tried to retain Lincoln: See note 1 provided with John Wentworth to AL, November 28, 1859, Lincoln Papers; Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant, pp. 17072.
"very reason...keeping up a quarrel": John Wentworth to AL, December 21, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
he did help to mediate: Don E. Fehrenbacher, "The Judd-Wentworth Feud," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XLV (Autumn 1952), pp. 203, 204.
"I am not...end of the vineyard?": AL to Norman B. Judd, February 9, 1860, in CW, III, p. 517.
a resounding editorial: See Baringer, Lincoln"s Rise to Power, pp. 14850.
"You saw what...Was it satisfactory?": Norman B. Judd to AL, February 21, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
"That Abraham Lincoln...a unit for him": Baringer, Lincoln"s Rise to Power, p. 186.
"what is to be...reverse the decree": MTL interview, September 1866, in HI, p. 360 n4.
CHAPTER 8: SHOWDOWN IN CHICAGO
Forty thousand visitors: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 344: Buffalo Morning Express, May 16, 1860, David Davis Papers, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill. [hereafter Davis Papers, ICHi].
trains...carried the delegates: Baringer, Lincoln"s Rise to Power, p. 212.
youngest political party...fastest-growing city: Jones, "The 1860 Republican Convention."
crowds gathered..."swung their hats": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 15, 1860.
the one that began its journey: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 12, 1860.