Team Of Rivals Part 83

The Sewards' relations.h.i.+p was sustained: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 162; Johnson, "I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home," URLB (1978), p. 53.

"above every other thing in the world": WHS to FAS, August 22, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

whose "silver rays"...in the mail: WHS to FAS, January 27, 1831, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 173.

played in the smoke from his cigar: WHS to FAS, January 15, 1831, in ibid., p. 168.

"Clouds and darkness...twelve months ago": SPC to CS, September 8, 1850, reel 7, Sumner Papers.

isolated in the Senate...achieve his position: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 142, 14647.

routine at Miss Haines's School: Julia Newberry, Julia Newberry's Diary, intro. Margaret Ayer Barnes and Janet Ayer Fairbank (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933), pp. 3536: Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, pp. 7475; Alice Hunt Sokoloff, Kate Chase for the Defense (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971), pp. 2829.

"without...we could hardly breathe": Newberry, Julia Newberry's Diary, p. 36.

correspondence between Chase and Kate: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 201. Examples of loving but critical letters to KCS: July 22, August 23, September 5, 1850; January 15, March 2, April 19, August 30, September 10, 1851; January 23, 1853; May 27, 1855; April 30, 1859.

"Your last letter...use your eyes, reflect": SPC to KCS, January 15, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"I wish...into your letters": SPC to KCS, January 22, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"Your nice letter...drowsy G.o.d": SPC to KCS, June 21, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

"It will be a...pleasurable sensation": SPC to KCS, February 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

"Remember...preparation for another!": SPC to KCS, December 5, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"strong, robust...give you grace": SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"I am sorry...to you the reasons why": SPC to KCS, August 10, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"you have it...by ill conduct": SPC to KCS, January 23, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"To an affectionate father...delightful future": SPC to KCS, March 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

"be made President": SPC to KCS, February 21, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"I knew Clay...and was a brilliant talker": "Kate Chase in 1893," undated newspaper clipping from the Star, "Sprague, Kate Chase" vertical file, Was.h.i.+ngtoniana Division, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. [hereafter KCS vertical file, DWP].

"You cannot think...hear you praised": SPC to KCS, January 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

"have visited...as they should be": SPC to KCS, August 27, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"The sun s.h.i.+nes...the chirp of insects": SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.

"I should like...a ramble together": SPC to KCS, April 3, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.

Chase understood her desire: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 419.

"Miss Lizzie...among gentlemen": SPC to KCS, August 4, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.

the "African mania": Bates diary, January 1, 1850.

"lovers of free...in the South": Bates diary, January 1, 1850.

"a struggle among...sectional supremacy": Bates diary, May 31, 1851.

radicals...personal ambition: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 46.

"in Civil government...arbitrary designing knave": Bates diary, July 4, 1851.

"the world's best hope...so black": Bates diary, March 6, 1850.

"if we stood aloof...insignificance": Bates diary, November 27, 1850.

"A human being...crippling effect": Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, trans. John E. Woods (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 31.

speech at Young Men's Lyceum: AL, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," January 27, 1838, in CW, I, pp. 10815, esp. 108, 11314.

A train of events...grant them territorial status: Henry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 10405; Fehrenbacher, The South and Three Sectional Crises, pp. 49, 5657.

Kansas-Nebraska Act: See "Kansas-Nebraska Act," in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 609.

Enforcement...in Boston and New York: Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. I: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 18471852 (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), pp. 38788.

"I had never...aggressive and dangerous": Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Fugitive Slave Law," reprinted in The Portable Emerson, pp. 54748.

Uncle Tom's Cabin: See Thomas F. Gossett, Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985), pp. 164, 18384.

"a flash...hosts of slavery": Frederick Dougla.s.s, quoted in ibid., p. 172.

"in greater numbers...against invasion": Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 23.

"blood and treasure": Fehrenbacher, "The Wilmot Proviso and the Mid-Century Crisis" in Fehrenbacher, The South and Three Sectional Crises, p. 35.

"The day may come...out of it!": Thomas Bragg, quoted in Avery O. Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 18481861. Vol. VI: A History of the South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953; 1984), p. 204.

"a mighty subject...every five minutes": WHS to [FAS?], February 12, 1854, in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 219.

"essays against slavery...was the leader": Stephen Douglas, quoted in Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 134.

"one of the most effective...ever produced": Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 93 (quote); Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, p. 72.

"We arraign...cause of G.o.d": SPC, et al., Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress, to the People of the United States. Shall Slavery be Permitted in Nebraska? (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Towers' Printers, 1854).

"Chase's greatest...experience of his life": Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 134.

"By far the most...of the Senate": NYT, February 6, 1854.