Team Of Rivals Part 103

"In the cars...jealousies and hatreds": TW to WHS, February 14, 1861, reel 61, Seward Papers.

"Your recent speech...over the country": AL to WHS, January 19, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 176.

"he had heard from...on it at present": Entry of February 5, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.

"Seward made all...says so openly": Carl Schurz to his wife, February 9, 1861, in Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 18411869, p. 247.

CHAPTER 11: "I AM NOW PUBLIC PROPERTY"

Mary journeyed to New York: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 69; Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 19294.

"wild to see": MTL to Adeline Judd, June 13, 1860, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 64.

feted by merchants..."an obsession": Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 192.

"Could he...disgrace the Nation?": Elizabeth Todd Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XIX (October 1926January 1927), p. 44.

"outward appearance...Presidential father": Entries for January 2325, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 7; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 55 (quote).

decided to rent out their house: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 72.

"the most brilliant...in many years": Entry for February 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 9; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 63 (quote).

"with a rope around...tar and feathers": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 5253.

he sought places to isolate himself: WHH, quoted in Miller, Lincoln's Virtues, p. 442; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 5758.

"unusually grave...old and faithful friends": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 64.

farewell to his beloved stepmother...father's grave: Ibid., pp. 5556.

"If I live...nothing had ever happened": AL, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 272.

packed his own trunk..."Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.": Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 307.

"His face was pale...a single word": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 71.

"My friends...an affectionate farewell": AL, "Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois [A. Version]," February 11, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 190.

"As he turned...the silent gathering": NYH, February 12, 1861.

the luxurious presidential car...president-elect: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 202.

"sat alone and depressed": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 73.

"forsaken...hilarious good spirits": "Indianapolis Correspondence, 11 February 1861," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 24.

Jefferson Davis was beginning: Entries for February 11 and 18, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 3536, 3839; Davis, Jefferson Davis, pp. 30407; The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Vol. VII: 1861, ed. Lynda La.s.s-well Crist and Mary Seaton Dix (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), p. 46.

Lincoln's spirits began to revive...thirty-four guns: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 76, 77.

"the cheers"...before leaving Springfield: "Indianapolis Correspondence, 11 February 1861," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, pp. 25 (quote), 27.

a direct, powerful talk..."free-love arrangement": AL, "Speech from the Balcony of the Bates House at Indianapolis, Indiana," February 11, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 195.

"shaken off...tragedy would have been": "Cincinnati Correspondence, 12 February 1861," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 28.

feted in the state Capitol...his election official: Entry for February 13, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 13.

"The votes have been...was no enemy": FWS to Anna (Wharton) Seward, February 14, 1861, reel 116, Seward Papers.

"have pa.s.sed the 13th...people have chosen": WHS to home, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 505.

"full evening dress"...lavish military ball: Entry for February 13, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 13.

he danced with Chase's lovely daughter: This story was told to the author by a tour guide at the Ohio State House during a visit to Columbus, Ohio, in 1998.

"Mrs. Lincoln was piqued...at Was.h.i.+ngton": "Kate Chase in 1893," Star clipping, KCS vertical file, DWP.

Never comfortable with extemporaneous speech: Harold Holzer, "Avoid Saying 'Foolish Things': The Legacy of Lincoln's Impromptu Oratory," in "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth, ed. James M. McPherson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995), pp. 10521.

"there is really...will come to an end": AL, "Speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," February 15, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 211.

"he should hardly...did not want to": AL, "Remarks at Ashtabula, Ohio," February 16, 1861, in ibid, p. 218.

he kissed Grace Bedell: Entry for February 16, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 14.

"a continuous carnival...grand popular ovation": "Indianapolis Correspondence, 11 February 1861," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 23.

Every glimpse of Mary: Entry for February 19, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 18.

"are rapidly reducing...frivolous and uncertain": Entries for February 16 and 20, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.

"observed the utmost...his administration": Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 170.

"the man does not...the foot down firmly": AL, "Address to the New Jersey General a.s.sembly at Trenton, New Jersey," February 21, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 237.

"lifted his foot"...continue his remarks: "Philadelphia Correspondence, 21 February 1861," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 40.

"consent to...Union itself was made": AL, "Reply to Mayor Fernando Wood at New York City," February 20, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 233.

"never had a feeling...to surrender it": AL, "Speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," February 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 240.

the Baltimore plot: See Isaac H. [sic] Arnold, "Plot to a.s.sa.s.sinate Abraham Lincoln," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 37 (June 1868), pp. 12328.

"This...in the afternoon": Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 18471865, ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (n.p.: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1895; 1911; Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), p. 39.