“decided impression…candidate for the presidency”: Jesse W. Fell, quoted in Oldroyd, comp., The Lincoln Memorial, p. 474.
“so much better known…you or anybody else”: AL, quoted by Jesse W. Fell, quoted in ibid., pp. 474, 476.
when the Republican editor…“for the Presidency”: Thomas J. Pickett to AL, April 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“I certainly am…fit for the Presidency”: AL to Thomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1859, in CW, III, p. 377.
Certain that Seward…overseas for eight months: Luthin, First Lincoln Campaign, p. 31.
“All our discreet friends…recess of Congress”: WHS to George W. Patterson, April 6, 1859, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 196.
Fanny Seward desolate…approaching departure: April 1859 entries, Frances (Fanny) Adeline Seward diary, reel 198, Seward Papers [hereafter Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers].
description of Fanny Seward, literary pursuits: Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 27, 76–78, 83–84.
“‘my affinity’…instead of speak”: Fanny Seward, quoted in ibid., p. 55.
Seward in Europe: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, pp. 362–436.
prepared a major address: Taylor, William Henry Seward, pp. 115–16.
Henry Stanton later…“posterity together”: Stanton, Random Recollections, pp. 212–13.
“I wish it were over”: FAS to William H. Seward, Jr., February 29, 1860, reel 115, Seward Papers.
Fanny…seated in the gallery: Entry for February 29, 1860, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
“The whole house…was very still”: Entry for February 29, 1860, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers.
Seward took as his theme: WHS, February 29, 1860, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 910–14.
“‘the irrepressible conflict’…the political aspirants”: Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 519.
“differences of opinion…always of their wants”: WHS, February 29, 1860, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 912–14.
produced deafening applause: Entry for February 29, 1860, Fanny Seward diary, Seward Papers; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 197, 198; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 220.
half a million copies were circulated: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 219.
“killed Seward with me forever”: Cassius Marcellus Clay, The Life of Cassius Marcellus Clay. Memoirs, Writings, and Speeches, Showing His Conduct in the Overthrow of American Slavery, the Salvation of the Union, and the Restoration of the Autonomy of the United States (n.p.: J. Fletcher Brennan & Co., 1886; New York: Negro Universities Press/Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1969), pp. 242–43.
“as an intellectual…agrees with me”: CS to Duchess Elizabeth Argyll, March 2, 1860, reel 74, Sumner Papers.
“From the stand-point…matter of party justice”: Frederick Douglass, “Mr. Seward’s Great Speech,” Douglass’ Monthly (April 1860).
“I hear of ultra…equally satisfactory”: Samuel Bowles to TW, March 5, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 260.
“seems to be…set toward Seward”: Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 519.
Weed assured him that everything was in readiness: TW to WHS, May 2, 6, and 8, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“oceans of money”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.
a longing for political office: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-Century Crusader, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), pp. 116–17, 185–86; Thurlow Weed, “Recollections of Horace Greeley,” Galaxy 15 (March 1873), pp. 379–80.
Greeley’s plaintive letter to Seward: Horace Greeley to WHS, November 11, 1854, reel 48, Seward Papers.
“full of sharp, pricking thorns”: WHS to TW, November 12, 1854, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 239.
mistakenly assumed…“mortal offense”: Carpenter, “A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.
“insinuated…to the nomination”: Henry Raymond, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 274.
Weed had a long talk with Greeley…“all right”: WHS to home, Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 395.
Weed’s failure to meet…Seward relayed the message: WHS to TW, March 15, 1860, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 261.
Seward’s visit to Lochiel: WHS to TW, April 11, 1859, Weed Papers; Lee F. Crippen, Simon Cameron, Antebellum, The American Scene: Comments and Commentators series (Oxford, Ohio, 1942; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), p. 209.
“He took me…to embarrass me”: WHS to TW, April 11, 1859, Weed Papers.
“an honest politician…stays bought”: Simon Cameron, quoted in Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 46.
“so much money…man in Pennsylvania”: NYT, June 3, 1878.
Cameron’s political offices: Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 26.
his “legislative child”: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 53.
People’s Party state convention: Crippen, Simon Cameron, Ante-bellum Years, pp. 201, 205.
Andrew Curtin…challenging Cameron: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 55–56.
Chase and the Baileys…“in European tradition”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 61, 123, 140–41 (quote p. 140).
“detestable” Know Nothings: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, November 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“in the presidential…other man”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, June 26, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
“observing the signs…integrity or my friendship”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, January 16, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“I do not doubt…spontaneous growth”: SPC to Gamaliel Bailey, January 24, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
“a slip of your pen…as a friend”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, January 30, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
preferred the unrealistic…on the first ballot: Hiram Barney to SPC, November 10, 1859, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Failing once again to appoint: Donnal V. Smith, “Salmon P. Chase and the Election of 1860,” OAHQ 39 (July 1930), p. 520.
He rejected an appeal from a New Hampshire supporter: Amos Tuck to SPC, March 14, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
He never capitalized…a series of letters: Reinhard H. Luthin, “Pennsylvania and Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 67 (January 1943), p. 66; SPC to Hiram Barney, September 22, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers; Smith, “Salmon P. Chase and the Election of 1860,” OAHQ (1930), pp. 520–21; Luthin, “Salmon P. Chase’s Political Career Before the Civil War,” MVHR (1943), p. 531.
“I now begin…but he works”: James M. Ashley to SPC, April 5, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“I shall have nobody…of the State”: SPC to Benjamin Eggleston, May 10, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“The Ohio delegation…as yet”: Erastus Hopkins to SPC, May 17, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“in a position…to occupy”: SPC to Benjamin R. Cowen, May 14, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Kate convinced her father: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 42.
Seward was very kind…“good deal of joking”: SPC to James A. Briggs, April 27, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers (quote); WHS to FAS, April 27, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 447.
organized a party…“two rivals within”: WHS to FAS, April 28, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 447.
the Blairs threw…“well-cultivated”: WHS to FAS, April 29, 1860, quoted in ibid., p. 448.
“attention to Katie…kind to me”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 4, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“Everybody seems…confidence in me”: SPC to James A. Briggs, April 27, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
“a great change…I was in Washington”: SPC to James A. Briggs, May 8, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
But he never left his home state…to visit him: See entries from January to May 1860 in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 95.
“the first…two years”: Entry for February 22, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 101.
his distance from the fierce arguments of the fifties: Introduction, ibid., p. xii.
his “views and opinions…of the country”: Entry for April 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 1.
The New York Whigs…“sectional prejudice”: EB to Whig Committee of New York, February 24, 1859, reprinted in entry for April 20, 1859, in ibid., pp. 1–9 (quotes pp. 1–2).
“denouncing…the Republican party”: Entry for April 27, 1859, in ibid., p. 12.
confirmed Bates’s…“well enough alone”: Entry for December 17, 1859, in ibid., pp. 78–79.
“brighter every day”: Note of February 2, 1860, added to entry for January 28, 1860, in ibid., p. 94.
“made up of ‘Bates men’”: Entries for February 25 and March 1, 1860, in ibid., pp. 102 (quote), 107.
“good feeling…support Lincoln”: Entry for April 26, 1860, in ibid., p. 122.
“would be the best…the South of it”: AL to Richard M. Corwine, April 6, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 36.
endorsements by conventions: Entries for March 1 and March 13, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 106, 108 (quote p. 106).
the German-American contingent…party in 1856: Reinhard H. Luthin, “Organizing the Republican Party in the ‘Border-Slave’ Regions: Edward Bates’s Presidential Candidacy in 1860,” Missouri Historical Review 38 (January 1944), pp. 149–50.
Blair suggested a questionnaire: Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 82.
“beaten with…into the quicksands”: Joseph Medill, quoted in O. J. Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), p. 147.
Bates’s response to questionnaire: EB to Committee of the Missouri Republican Convention, March 17, 1860, reprinted in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 111–14.
responses to Bates’s statement: See Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, pp. 104–05.
“as a clap…a clear sky”: Lexington [Mo.] Express, reprinted in Daily Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., April 5, 1860.
“just as good…the Southern Conservatives”: Louisville [Ky.] Journal, extracted in the [Indianapolis] Daily Journal, quoted in Luthin, “Organizing the Republican Party in the ‘Border-Slave’ Regions,” MHR (1944), p. 151.
“agitators…peace of our Union”: Memphis Bulletin, reprinted in Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Mo., March 31, 1860.
Bates himself…“a good many papers”: Entry of April 7, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 118.
“knowing the fickleness…a failure”: Entry of February 28, 1860, in ibid., pp. 105–06.
“neither on the left…dead center”: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 147.
“fairly headed off…of ultimate extinction”: AL to John L. Scripps, June 23, 1858, in CW, II, p. 471.
He arranged to publish: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 128, 137, 171; Donald, Lincoln, p. 237.
nearly two dozen speeches: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, pp. 143–44; Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, chapter 3.
“I think it is…into Liberty”: James A. Briggs to AL, November 1, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
The crowds that greeted…“many a day”: Janesville Gazette, quoted in Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 110–11 (quote p. 110).
“Douglasism…of Republicanism”: AL to SPC, September 21, 1859, in CW, III, p. 471.
stop was Cincinnati: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 103–07.
“greeted with…rising star”: Dickson, “Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,” Harper’s New Monthly (1884), p. 65.
Lincoln’s speech in Cincinnati: AL, “Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio,” September 17, 1859, in CW, III, p. 454.
“as an effort…had ever heard”: Cincinnati Gazette, reprinted in Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., October 7, 1859.
Lincoln’s crowded schedule…“the women come”: Joshua F. Speed to AL, September 22, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“Your visit to Ohio…in your favor”: Samuel Galloway to AL, October 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“We must take…are my choice”: Samuel Galloway to AL, July 23, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“to hedge against…we shall disagree”: AL to Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859, in CW, III, pp. 390–91.
Colfax appreciated…“throughout the Union”: Schuyler Colfax to AL, July 14, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“with foolish pikes”: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1927; 1955), p. 52.
John Brown at Harpers Ferry: See chapter 19 of Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 290–306.
“I am waiting…& of humanity”: John Brown to his family, November 30, 1859, quoted in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800–1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910), p. 551.
the dignity…eloquence of his statements: Villard, John Brown, 1800–1859, pp. 538–39.
His death…“resolutions were adopted”: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, p. 378.
“sent a shiver of fear…woman, and child”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, October 22, 1859.
“Harper’s Ferry…dissolution must ensue”: Richmond Enquirer, November 25, 1859.
“like a great…that abyss”: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 309.
“Weird John Brown”: Herman Melville, “The Portent,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, reprinted in The Poems of Herman Melville, rev. edn., ed. Douglas Robillard (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 2000), p. 53.
“I do not exaggerate…in great numbers”: Robert Bunch, December 9, 1859, quoted in Laura A. White, “The South in the 1850’s as Seen by British Consuls,” Journal of Southern History I (February 1935), p. 44.
“for seditious…in a good cause”: Editor’s description of St. Louis News article of November 23, 1859, pasted in entry of November 23, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 65.
“the natural fruits…his subordinates”: Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, December 16, 1859.
“one hundred gentlemen”…and Colfax: Advertisement by “Richmond,” quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 440.
“The first overt act…the Shenandoah”: NYH, October 19, 1859.
“necessary and just”: WHS, “The State of the Country,” February 29, 1860, in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 637.
“seeking to plunge…universal condemnation”: Albany Evening Journal, October 19, 1859.
“the wild extravagance…a madman”: Entry of October 25, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 50–51.
He discussed the incident…“his [dagger]”: Entry of November 21, 1859, in ibid., p. 63.
“for a household…attempted to do”: Janet Chase Hoyt, “A Woman’s Memories. Salmon P. Chase’s Home Life,” NYTrib, February 15, 1891.
Lincoln was back on the campaign trail: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 124; entry for December 2, 1859, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, pp. 266–67.
“the attempt…electioneering dodge”: “Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 5, 1859, synopsis of speech printed in the Leavenworth Times, December 6, 1859, in CW, III, p. 503.
“make the gallows…the cross”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Courage,” November 7, 1859, lecture in Boston, as reported by the NYTrib, quoted in John McAleer, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1984), p. 532.
“great courage”…“rare unselfishness”: Elwood Free Press on AL, “Speech at Elwood, Kansas,” December 1 [November 30?], 1859, in CW, III, p. 496.
“that cannot…think himself right”: AL, “Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 3, 1859, in ibid., p. 502.
Republican National Committee at Astor House: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 20–21.
“attach more consequence”: AL to Norman B. Judd, December 14, 1859, in CW, III, p. 509.
“good neutral ground…an even chance”: Archie Jones, “The 1860 Republican Convention,” transcript of Chicago station WAAF radio broadcast, May 16, 1960, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill.
“carefully kept…on the nomination”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 285.
“promised that…furnished free”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, December 27, 1859.
Chicago beat St. Louis by a single vote: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 21.
“a cheap excursion…of the State”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 285.
“I like the place…take exception to it”: John Bigelow to WHS, January 18, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“Had the convention…been the nominee”: Charles Gibson, “Edward Bates,” Missouri Historical Society Collections II (January 1900), p. 55.
“there is not…not much of me”: AL to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.
“a wild region…in the woods”: AL, “Autobiography by Abraham Lincoln, enclosed with Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell,” December 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 511.
“If any thing…written by myself”: AL to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859, in ibid., p. 511.
he received an invitation: James A. Briggs to AL, October 12, 1859, Lincoln Papers; Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 10.
“His clothes were travel-stained…for Monday night”: Henry C. Bowen, paraphrased in Henry B. Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1924), pp. 179–80.
“Well, B…. as a man ought to want”: “Recollections of Mr. McCormick,” in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 251 (quote); Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 86. Holzer identifies “B.” as Mayson Brayman.
Lincoln paid a visit…“shorten [his] neck”: AL, quoted in James D. Horan, Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), p. 31. For portrait, see plate 93 in Horan.
weather and attendance: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 202; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 103, 303 n55.
“this western man”: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, p. 173.
Lincoln’s appearance: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 369.
“one of the legs…longer than his sleeves”: Russell H. Conwell, “Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women,” quoted in Wayne Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln. A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1908), p. 308.
had labored to craft his address: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 174–75; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 50–53.
“Our fathers…protection a necessity”: AL, “Address at Cooper Institute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 522, 535.
a “hue and cry…never can be reversed”: AL, “Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in CW, I, p. 273.
Cooper Union speech: AL, “Address at Cooper Institute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 522–50, esp. 537, 538, 547, 550.
erupted in thunderous applause: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 158–59.
Briggs predicted…“have heard tonight”: James Briggs, quoted in Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 147.
“When I came out…‘since St. Paul’”: Unknown observer, quoted in ibid., p. 146.
undertaking an exhausting tour: See copies of Lincoln’s speeches in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, in CW, III, pp. 550–54, and speeches in Connecticut, CW, IV, pp. 2–30; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 176–77.
He was forced to decline…“before the fall elections”: AL to Isaac Pomeroy, March 3, 1860, in CW, III, p. 554.
“being within my calculation…ideas in print”: AL to MTL, March 4, 1860, in ibid., p. 555.
Lincoln first met Gideon Welles: J. Doyle DeWitt, Lincoln in Hartford (privately printed: n.d.), p. 5; John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 287, 289.
Gideon Welles’s appearance and career: John T. Morse, Introduction, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. I: 1861–March 30, 1864 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press, 1911), pp. xvii–xxi; Richard S. West, Jr., Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Navy Department (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943).
“the party of the Southern slaveocracy”: Morse, Introduction, Diary of Gideon Welles (1911 edn.), p. xix.
had settled on Chase…“very expensive rulers”: West, Gideon Welles, pp. 78–79, 81 (quote p. 78).
Lincoln and Welles spent several hours: DeWitt, Lincoln in Hartford, p. 5; Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 289.
the Hartford speech: AL, “Speech at New Haven, Connecticut,” March 6, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 18.
“as if the people…out loud”: James Russell Lowell, “Abraham Lincoln,” in The Writings of James Russell Lowell, Vol. V, Political Essays (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892), p. 208.
“introduced the Trojan horse”: WHS, “Admission of Kansas. Speech of Hon. W. H. Seward, of New York, In the Senate, April 9, 1856,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 405.
Lincoln met with Welles again: “The Career of Gideon Welles,” typescript manuscript draft, Henry B. Learned Papers, reel 36, Welles Papers; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 78.
“This orator…in his logic”: GW’s editorial in Hartford Evening Press, quoted in West, Gideon Welles, p. 81.
“I have been sufficiently…and learned men”: Rev. J. P. Gulliver article in New York Independent, September 1, 1864, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 311.
“I think your chance…man in the country”: James A. Briggs, “Narrative of James A. Briggs, Esq.,” New York Evening Post, August 16, 1867, reprinted in An Authentic Account of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Being Invited to give an Address in Cooper Institute, N.Y., February 27, 1860 (Putnam, Conn.: privately printed, 1915), n.p.
“When I was East…to the best”: AL, quoted in Briggs, “Narrative of James A. Briggs, Esq.”
At the end of January 1859: Lyman Trumbull to AL, January 29, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
“Any effort…a rival of yours”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, February 3, 1859, in CW, III, pp. 355–56.
“A word now…suggestions of this sort”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, April 29, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 46.
Lincoln’s effort to defuse…Judd and Wentworth: Don E. Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant: A Biography of “Long John” Wentworth (Madison, Wisc.: American History Research Center, 1957), pp. 163, 169–74.
Wentworth would drag out…“at Lincoln’s expense”: Note 1, accompanying transcript of AL to Norman B. Judd, December 9, 1859, Lincoln Papers (quote); Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant, pp. 169–70.
Lincoln hastened to reassure…“go uncontradicted”: AL to Norman B. Judd, December 9, 1859, in CW, III, p. 505.
Judd brought a libel suit…tried to retain Lincoln: See note 1 provided with John Wentworth to AL, November 28, 1859, Lincoln Papers; Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant, pp. 170–72.
“very reason…keeping up a quarrel”: John Wentworth to AL, December 21, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
he did help to mediate: Don E. Fehrenbacher, “The Judd-Wentworth Feud,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XLV (Autumn 1952), pp. 203, 204.
“I am not…end of the vineyard?”: AL to Norman B. Judd, February 9, 1860, in CW, III, p. 517.
a resounding editorial: See Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, pp. 148–50.
“You saw what…Was it satisfactory?”: Norman B. Judd to AL, February 21, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
“That Abraham Lincoln…a unit for him”: Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power, p. 186.
“what is to be…reverse the decree”: MTL interview, September 1866, in HI, p. 360 n4.