Team Of Rivals Part 86

His mother watched: Ibid.

"the blood spouted...ceiling": Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 41.

Neighbors were sent...watching over him: Alfred Taylor, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 45.

"Where formerly...clasped behind": Mrs. Davison Filson, quoted in ibid., p. 40.

Stanton's change of personality in court: Ibid., p. 34.

"the most important"...He was greatly relieved: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, September 25, 1855, Stanton Papers, Donated Historical Materials, formerly Record Group 200, National Archives and Records Administration, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. [hereafter Stanton Papers, DNA] (quote); d.i.c.kson, "Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati," Harper's (1884), p. 62.

Ellen Hutchison: See Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 66.

"radiant with beauty and intellect": EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 10, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.

in "agony": EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 28, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.

"the trouble...fresh blossoms": EMS to Ellen Hutchison, October 10, 1854, Stanton Papers, DNA.

Ellen was vexed: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, May 21, 1855, and undated letter, Stanton Papers, DNA.

"his careless[ness]...feelings of all": EMS to Ellen Hutchison, undated, Stanton Papers, DNA.

"there is so much...overlook": EMS to Ellen Hutchison, May 21, 1855, Stanton Papers, DNA.

"blessed with...you condemn": EMS to Ellen Hutchison, undated, Stanton Papers, DNA.

to marry Edwin on June 25, 1856: EMS to Ellen Hutchison, June 25, 1856, Stanton Papers, DNA.

Happier years followed: Gideon Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton."

to Was.h.i.+ngton...a brick mansion: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 79.

"Twenty-two...a monarch's brow": AL, "Fragment on Stephen A. Douglas," [December 1856?], in CW, II, pp. 38283.

"She had...ambition": John T. Stuart interview, late June 1865, in HI, p. 63.

"I would rather...in the world": MTL, quoted in Elizabeth Todd Edwards interview, 18651866, in HI, p. 444.

"a very little...does physically": Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 140.

"no equal in the United States": MTL, quoted in ibid., p. 144.

"unladylike": MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 21.

"the first bugle call...a new party": Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 34.

upheaval complicated by the emergence of the Know Nothings: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 14243; Eugene H. Roseboom, "Salmon P. Chase and the Know Nothings," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 25 (December 1938), pp. 33550.

the Know Nothing Party..."popery": Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 24052 (quote p. 242); McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 32.

"How can any one...Russia, for instance": AL to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855, in CW, II, p. 323.

Republican Party, comprised of...over three decades: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 11417, 12324, 22425; Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 247, 249; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 127.

Chase...unhindered by past loyalties: Riddle, "The Election of Salmon P. Chase," Republic (1875), p. 183; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 33.

Chase accomplished...statewide ticket: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 15758, 171: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 192203.

Chase's campaign for governor: SPC to James S. Pike, October 18, 1855, and SPC to CS, October 15, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 20001.

"on a hand car...another hand car": SPC to KCS, September 30, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

"The anxiety...breathe freely!": CS to SPC, October 11, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

Seward faced a more difficult challenge: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 22325.

lavish dinners...bishop John Hughes: Hugh Hastings letter, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 23233.

Working without rest...in the Senate: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 96.

"I s.n.a.t.c.h...shattered bark": WHS to TW, February 7, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 245.

"I have never...was made known": FAS to Augustus Seward, February 7, 1855, reel 115, Seward Papers.

liberated to join...in the state of New York: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 22427.

"I am so happy.... political pew": CS to WHS, October 15, 1855, reel 49, Seward Papers.

Seward's October speech: WHS, "The Advent of the Republican Party, Albany, October 12, 1855," in The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, ed. George E. Baker (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884; New York: AMS Press, 1972), pp. 22540 (quote p. 237).

organizing the various...Republican Party: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 18991.

guerrilla war had broken out: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 199215.

"engage in compet.i.tion...in right": WHS, remarks in "The Nebraska and Kansas Bill," May 25, 1854, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., p. 769.

"When the North...eager foe": Charleston Mercury, June 21, 1854, quoted in Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 204.

a.s.sault on Sumner by Preston Brooks: David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, collector's edition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960; Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1987), pp. 29495; William E. Gienapp, "The Crime Against Sumner: The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party," Civil War History 25 (September 1979), pp. 21845.

Sumner's speech: CS, "Kansas Affairs. Speech of Hon. C. Sumner, of Ma.s.sachusetts, in the Senate, May 1920, 1856," Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 52944.

laced with literary and historical references: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 28182.

"a chivalrous knight...humiliating offices": CS, "Kansas Affairs," Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 53031.

advised him to remove the personal attacks: William H. Seward, Jr., "Youthful Recollections," p. 13, folder 36, Box 120, William Henry Seward Papers, Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Rochester Library [hereafter Seward Papers, NRU], Rochester, N.Y.