"typically methodical way": King, Lincoln"s Manager, p. 135 (quote); see also p. 136, and chapter 11 generally.
"a drawback...Gov. Seward": AL, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 145.
"It all worked...was Indiana": Leonard Swett to Josiah H. Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, p. 71.
"the whole of Indiana...to get": AL to Richard M. Corwine, May 2, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 47 (quote); AL to Cyrus M. Allen, May 1, 1860, in ibid., p. 46.
Claims have been made...Caleb Smith: Baringer, Lincoln"s Rise to Power, pp. 21415.
No deal was needed: Donald, Lincoln, p. 249.
Indiana...to back Lincoln: John D. Defrees to Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 148.
Committee of Twelve..."general good of the party": Smith, "The Nomination of Lincoln," Davis Papers, ICHi.
Davis had previously...might be procured: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.
"Make no...bind me": AL, Endors.e.m.e.nt on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat, May 17, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 50.
"Everybody was mad..."he must ratify it"": Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.
The Blairs had supposedly promised: Clay, The Life of Ca.s.sius Marcellus Clay, pp. 24446; Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 68.
"oceans of money": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.
"get every member...appointment": King, Lincoln"s Manager, p. 140.
"My a.s.surance to them...as much as possible": Leonard Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
for a celebratory march..."a little too far": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 164.
had manufactured duplicate tickets: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 16061.
"it was part of...the Convention": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, p. 72.
friends and supporters from all over the state: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 16061.
"by a deafening shout": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, p. 72.
"loud and long": Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860.
"appalled us a little": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, p. 72.
"If Mr. Seward"s name...far and wide": NYT, May 21, 1860.
"tremendous applause...Lincoln"s favor": Henry Raymond article, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 276.
"cold when compared": NYT, May 21, 1860.
"trial of lungs": Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860; NYH, May 19, 1860; NYT, May 19, 1860.
"The shouting was...infernal intensity": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 165.
"five thousand...the scene unnoticed": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, p. 72.
"Abe Lincoln...let us ballot!": NYH, May 19, 1860; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
"This was not...it had its weight": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, pp. 7273.
results of the first ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 167.
"This solid vote...it was given": Ibid., p. 166.
"no pivotal state...been delivered": Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, p. 112.
results of the second ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 169.
"startling...of thunder": Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 264.
results of the third ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 170.
"There was a pause...ticks of a watch": Ibid., p. 171.
"A profound stillness fell upon the Wigwam": Unidentified spectator, quoted in Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 18571861, new introduction by JamesM. McPherson (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992), p. 260.
"rose to their feet...and again": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860.
"Great men...night of struggle": Clark, "Lincoln"s Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl," Putnam"s, p. 538.
he, too, could not restrain his tears: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 9.
"the great disappointment of his life": Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1878.
"her first...are themselves forgotten": Austin Blair, quoted in Albany Evening Journal, May 23, 1860, in Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 173; Baringer, Lincoln"s Rise to Power, p. 292; Carl Schurz "Speeches at the Chicago Convention," quoted in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 682.
"with the success...highest honor": Carl Schurz, "Speeches at the Chicago Convention," quoted in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 682.
"Mounting a table...clenched nervously": NYT, May 21, 1860.
"Gentlemen...Republican party: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
"the spectator...n.o.ble man indeed": NYT, May 21, 1860.
A man stationed on the roof...Cannons were fired: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 17172.
"between 20,000...shouting at once": Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.
"The Press and Tribune...windows and doors": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860.