Team Of Rivals Part 65

CHAPTER 2: THE "LONGING TO RISE"

"We find ourselves...times tells us": AL, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 108.

"When both the...universal feeling": Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper & Row, 1966; 1988), p. 629.

"any man's son...any other man's son": Frances M. Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832; Barre, Ma.s.s.: Imprint Society, 1969), p. 93.

thousands of young men to break away: Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge, Ma.s.s., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 88.

the Louisiana Purchase: See Robert Wiebe, The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the Const.i.tution to the Eve of Disunion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), pp. 13132; "Louisiana Purchase," in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), p. 682.

"Americans are always moving...the mountainside": Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943), pp. 3, 78.

In the South...thriving cities: Thomas Dublin, "Internal Migration," in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 56465.

"Every American...to rise": de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Mayer, p. 627.

born on May 16, 1801: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 3.

Samuel Seward: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 1920; Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, pp. 12; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 12.

"a considerable...destined preferment": Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 20, 21.

Seward's early education: Ibid., pp. 20, 22; "Biographical Memoir of William H. Seward," The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. I, ed. George E. Baker (5 vols., New York: J. S. Redfield, 1853; New York: AMS Press, 1972), pp. xvixvii.

"at five in the morning...politics or religion!": Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 21, 22.

Seward slaves: Ibid., p. 27. The Sewards still owned seven slaves in 1820. See entry for Samuel S. Seward, Warwick, Orange County, N.Y., Fourth Census of the United States, 1820 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33, reel 64), RG 29, DNA.

"loquacious"...to fight against slavery: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 2728.

status of slavery in the North after the Revolution: Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black: American Att.i.tudes Toward the Negro, 15501812 (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977), p. 345; Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 17901860 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1961), pp. 3, 6.

slavery eliminated in New York by 1827: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 14.

enrolled in...Union College: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 4.

"a magnificent...so imposing": Seward, An Autobiography, p. 29.

"I cherished...of my cla.s.s": Ibid., p. 31.

"had determined...at Union College": Ibid., p. 35.

"all the eminent...a broken heart": Ibid., pp. 35, 3643.

"Matters prosper...even his notice": WHS to Daniel Jessup, Jr., January 24, 1820, reel 1, Seward Papers.

"was received as a student...in Was.h.i.+ngton Hall": Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 4748.

friends.h.i.+p with...David Berdan: "David Berdan," Eulogy read before the Adelphic Society of Union College, July 21, 1828, and published in The Knickerbocker Magazine (December 1839), in The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 11727; WHS to the President of the Adelphic Society, Union College, draft copy, September 3, 1827, reel 1, Seward Papers; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 18.

"a genius of the highest order"...Seward was devastated: WHS to the President of the Adelphic Society, Union College, draft copy, September 3, 1827, reel 1, Seward Papers.

"never again...in this world": FAS to WHS, February 15, 1831, reel 113, Seward Papers.

"a common feature"...pa.s.sionate romances: E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (New York: Basic Books/HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 3, 76 (quote), 86.

Relations.h.i.+p with Judge Miller: "Biographical Memoir of William H. Seward," Works of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. xxi.

marriage to Frances Miller...The judge insisted: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 62.

Chase's ancestors: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 57, 21; Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 3; Robert B. Warden, An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1874), pp. 2227.

"the neighboring folk...in New England": SPC to John T. Trowbridge, December 27, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.

"a good man": SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"angry word...from his lips": SPC to Trowbridge, December 27, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.

Chase long remembered..."& kind looks": SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"I was...ambitious...of my cla.s.s": SPC to Trowbridge, December 27, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.

taught by elder sister: Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 36.

retreat to the garden...designated pa.s.sages: SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"once repeating...a single recitation": Biographical sketch of Salmon P. Chase, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 39.

"for the entertainment they afforded": Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 38.

"quite a prodigy...and head down": SPC to Trowbridge, January 21, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"sliding down hill"...would swear: SPC to Trowbridge, December 27, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.

made him abhor intemperance: Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 63.

"face forward...sufficed to save": SPC to Trowbridge, January 21, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

Ithamar's gla.s.s venture and financial ruin: SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 78.

Ithamar Chase's fatal stroke: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 8.

"He lingered...our home": SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

"almost to suffering": SPC to Trowbridge, February 1, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.