Team Of Rivals Part 116

"has cast...step backwards": Joseph Medill to SPC, September 15, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.

"poor white trash": Benjamin F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, September 23, 1861, reel 1, Papers of Zachariah Chandler, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.

"Many blunders...them all": Dougla.s.s' Monthly (October 1861), pp. 53031.

Blair and Meigs delivered: Entry for September 18, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 67.

"is determined...Missouri": MB to FPB, October 1, 1861, box 7, folder 6, Blair-Lee Papers, NjP-SC.

"more damage...can do": EB to SPC, September 11, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.

"distressed & mortified": EB to James O. Broadhead, September 28, 1861, Broadhead Papers, Mos.h.i.+.

"Immense mischief...place of action": EB to Hamilton Gamble, October 3, 1861, Hamilton Rowan Gamble Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gamble Papers, Mos.h.i.+].

"I think G.o.d...in his Cabinet": FB to MB, October 7, 1861, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 8384.

"a letter directing...and conduct": Simon Cameron to AL, October 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

"was very much mortified"...talked with the president: Simon Cameron to AL, October 14, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

"const.i.tution...with its management": NYT, October 31, 1861. For the report, see Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 54049.

"yielded to delay...deserve it": Entry of October 22, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 19899.

Lincoln dispatched...Swett: Entry for October 24, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 73.

"the most remarkable"...publication: NYT, October 31, 1861.

When Swett reached Missouri: Leonard Swett to AL, November 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

"frown came over...'my lines?'": General T. I. McKenny, quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, Sangamon Edition (4 vols., n.p.: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), pp. 12225 (quote p. 124).

"justified...is possible": NYT, November 7, 1861.

"Slowly...our judgment": Philadelphia Inquirer, October 31, 1861.

"Lincoln...the whole story": NYH, November 7, 1861.

"I am...publ[ic] duty": SPC to Richard Smith, November 11, 1861, reel 18, Chase Papers.

the Confederacy had dispatched...Mason and Slidell: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 308.

Charles Wilkes...Fort Warren in Boston: NYT, November 17 and 19, 1861.

"We do not believe...been found": NYT, November 17, 1861.

Wilkes was feted...a great banquet: NYT, November 26 and 27, 1861.

"three cheers...Wilkes": Smith, Francis Preston Blair, p. 315.

"great and general satisfaction": Entry for November 16, 1861, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 202.

Chase reportedly...seized the British s.h.i.+p: NYT, November 19, 1861.

"the items...Mason & Slidell!": AL to Edward Everett, November 18, 1861, in CW, V, p. 26.

"intelligence...Mail Steamer": The Times (London), quoted in the NYT, December 13, 1861.

"reparation and apology": Morning Post (London), quoted in the NYT, December 14, 1861.

Fabricated details: Charles Francis Adams to Henry Adams, December 19, 1861, A Cycle of Adams Letters, 18611865, Vol. I, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), p. 86.

"acted without...directed by us": WHS to Charles Francis Adams, undated, quoted in Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton, as Senator and Secretary of State. A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 18611872 (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 21.

The first public response should come from the British government: WHS to Charles Francis Adams, undated, quoted in ibid., p. 24.

"if the taking...it means war": TW to WHS, December 2, 1861, quoted in ibid., pp. 27, 28 (quote).

"fanning the popular flame...manufactures": NYT, December 16, 1861.

"certainly jubilant": TW to WHS, December 5, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 28.

in "high places": TW to WHS, December 6, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 29.

"to provoke...getting Canada": TW to WHS, December 2, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 27.

"how created...your dismissal": TW to WHS, December 6, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 29.

Seward burst..."so foolish a thing": Entry for December 15, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 515.

"I know...will not bite?": AL, quoted in Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, p. 187.

both he and Lord Lyons...remained silent: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 187; Lord Thomas Newton, Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. I (New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1913), p. 55.

"Her Majesty's...for the aggression": Earl Russell to Lord Lyons, November 30, 1861, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. V (New York: Century Co., 1917), pp. 2930. While the letter was dated November 30, it did not arrive in Was.h.i.+ngton until December 19, 1861.

If the United States...return to Britain: Ibid., p. 30; Newton, Lord Lyons, p. 62.

Lyons carried the doc.u.ment...consider their response: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 24.

"You will perhaps...side of peace": Newton, Lord Lyons, p. 69.

"devoted one entire day": Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 24.

"With England...'crushed out'": TW to WHS, December 10, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 30.

"They can never...such a surrender": Quoted in ibid., p. 24.