Team Of Rivals Part 99

"The cardinal error...danger of secession": Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 18571861, p. 305.

"we all dwelt in a fool's Paradise": Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915, p. 69.

"a sort of political...frighten the North": Donn Piatt, Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union (New York and Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887), p. 30.

"people of the South...of the government": AL to John B. Fry, August 15, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 95.

"the cry of disunion...'sway Northern sentiment'": Nashville Union and American, November 11, 1860, quoted and paraphrased in Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, pp. 35253.

shrugged...belligerent politicians: Press and Tribune, Chicago, October 3, 1860.

"they cry out...n.o.body!": WHS, "Political Equality the National Idea, Saint Paul, September 18, 1860," in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 344.

"misrepresentations...triumph of our party": FB, et al., to AL, October 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

Even John Breckinridge...splitting up the Union: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 341.

"I have a good deal of news...it may be delusive": AL to John Pett.i.t, September 14, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 115.

"there will be the most...great adroitness": AL to TW, August 17, 1860, in ibid., pp. 9798.

"Can you afford...finish the work": TW to WHS, October 25, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

"the whole audience...tumultuous cheering": NYTrib, November 3, 1860.

"to stir whatever...the populace": NYTrib, November 10, 1860.

"was chatting...than the Presidency": Samuel R. Weed, "Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln," New York Times Magazine, February 14, 1932, p. 8.

"the candidate...for his own electors": William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Vol. III (Springfield, Ill.: Herndon's Lincoln Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1888), p. 467.

"who welcomed him...the Court room": [JGN to TB?], November 6, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

wild "burst of enthusiasm": NYTrib, November 10, 1860.

"He said he had...read to the crowd": Missouri Democrat, reprinted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 9, 1860.

"seemed to understand...with previous elections": Weed, "Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln," NYT Magazine, p. 8.

gathered at the telegraph office: Missouri Democrat, reprinted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 9, 1860.

"The news would come...any hurry to hear it": Weed, "Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln," NYT Magazine, p. 9.

"We have made steady...victory has been won": Simeon Draper, quoted in ibid.

"Uncle Abe...I know it": Lyman Trumbull, quoted in ibid.

"Not too fast...may not be over yet": Ibid.

a "victory" supper: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 206.

"Don't wait...before 10 o'clock": TW, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 218.

"a very happy man...such circ.u.mstances?": AL, quoted by Henry C. Bowen, Recollections, p. 31, reprinted in Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln, p. 345.

"Mary...we are elected!": Henry C. Bowen, "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," The Independent, April 4, 1895, p. 4.

CHAPTER 10: "AN INTENSIFIED CROSSWORD PUZZLE"

"The excitement...was upon him": GW to Isaac N. Arnold, November 27, 1872, folder 1, Isaac Newton Arnold Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

the citizens of Springfield...to their homes: William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1945), p. 6.

"I began at once...the burden": Entry for August 15, 1862, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson. Vol. I: 1861March 30, 1864, ed. Howard K. Beale (New York: W. W. Norton, 1960), p. 82.

"into its usual quietness": JGN to TB, November 11, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

"This was on...finally selected": Entry for August 15, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 82.

On a blank card...a former Whig: Enclosure in Kinsley S. Bingham, Solomon Foot, and Zachariah Chandler to AL, January 21, 1861, Lincoln Papers; Donald, Lincoln, pp. 26162.

"the mad scramble": Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943; Gloucester, Ma.s.s.: Peter Smith, 1964), p. 3.

"muddy boots...often ringing laughter": Henry Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61: A Journalist's Story, ed. Harold G. and Oswald Garrison Villard (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1941; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974), pp. 15, 13.

"showed remarkable tact...always perfect": Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 18351900. Vol. I: 18351862 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1904; New York: Da Capo Press, 1969), pp. 142, 143.

Lincoln's penchant for telling stories: New York Daily News, reprinted in Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, Ohio, November 20, 1860.

"helped many times...disappointments": Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 147.

"he is the very...general disposition": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 3940.

John Hay: William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), pp. 19, 4849, 5253, 6869, 74, 82, 87; Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 141.

For Mary...exciting time: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 165.

"Is that the old woman": Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 20.

he asked Hannibal Hamlin...to meet him in Chicago: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, November 8, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 136.

he invited his old friend: AL to Joshua F. Speed, November 19, 1860, in ibid., p. 141.

"was so full of good humor...with laughter": Charles Eugene Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin. Vol. II. American History and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Riverside Press, 1899; Port Was.h.i.+ngton, N.Y., and London: Kennikat Press, 1971), p. 367.

biographical information on Hamlin: See William A. Robinson, "Hamlin, Hannibal," in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IV, ed. Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931; 1960), pp. 19699; H. Draper Hunt, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln's First Vice-President (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1969).