Team Of Rivals Part 95

"typically methodical way": King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 135 (quote); see also p. 136, and chapter 11 generally.

"a drawback...Gov. Seward": AL, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 145.

"It all worked...was Indiana": Leonard Swett to Josiah H. Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 71.

"the whole of Indiana...to get": AL to Richard M. Corwine, May 2, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 47 (quote); AL to Cyrus M. Allen, May 1, 1860, in ibid., p. 46.

Claims have been made...Caleb Smith: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 21415.

No deal was needed: Donald, Lincoln, p. 249.

Indiana...to back Lincoln: John D. Defrees to Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 148.

Committee of Twelve..."general good of the party": Smith, "The Nomination of Lincoln," Davis Papers, ICHi.

Davis had previously...might be procured: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.

"Make no...bind me": AL, Endors.e.m.e.nt on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat, May 17, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 50.

"Everybody was mad...'he must ratify it'": Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.

The Blairs had supposedly promised: Clay, The Life of Ca.s.sius Marcellus Clay, pp. 24446; Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 68.

"oceans of money": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.

"get every member...appointment": King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 140.

"My a.s.surance to them...as much as possible": Leonard Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

for a celebratory march..."a little too far": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 164.

had manufactured duplicate tickets: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 16061.

"it was part of...the Convention": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.

friends and supporters from all over the state: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 16061.

"by a deafening shout": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.

"loud and long": Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860.

"appalled us a little": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.

"If Mr. Seward's name...far and wide": NYT, May 21, 1860.

"tremendous applause...Lincoln's favor": Henry Raymond article, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 276.

"cold when compared": NYT, May 21, 1860.

"trial of lungs": Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860; NYH, May 19, 1860; NYT, May 19, 1860.

"The shouting was...infernal intensity": Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 165.

"five thousand...the scene unnoticed": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.

"Abe Lincoln...let us ballot!": NYH, May 19, 1860; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.

"This was not...it had its weight": Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, pp. 7273.

results of the first ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 167.

"This solid vote...it was given": Ibid., p. 166.

"no pivotal state...been delivered": Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 112.

results of the second ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 169.

"startling...of thunder": Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 264.

results of the third ballot: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 170.

"There was a pause...ticks of a watch": Ibid., p. 171.

"A profound stillness fell upon the Wigwam": Unidentified spectator, quoted in Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 18571861, new introduction by JamesM. McPherson (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1992), p. 260.

"rose to their feet...and again": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860.

"Great men...night of struggle": Clark, "Lincoln's Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl," Putnam's, p. 538.

he, too, could not restrain his tears: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 9.

"the great disappointment of his life": Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1878.

"her first...are themselves forgotten": Austin Blair, quoted in Albany Evening Journal, May 23, 1860, in Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 173; Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, p. 292; Carl Schurz "Speeches at the Chicago Convention," quoted in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 682.

"with the success...highest honor": Carl Schurz, "Speeches at the Chicago Convention," quoted in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 682.

"Mounting a table...clenched nervously": NYT, May 21, 1860.

"Gentlemen...Republican party: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.

"the spectator...n.o.ble man indeed": NYT, May 21, 1860.

A man stationed on the roof...Cannons were fired: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 17172.

"between 20,000...shouting at once": Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1860, Davis Papers, ICHi.

"The Press and Tribune...windows and doors": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860.