Part 65 (1/2)

CHAPTER 2: THE ”LONGING TO RISE”

”We find ourselves...times tells us”: AL, ”Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, in CW, I, p. 108.

”When both the...universal feeling”: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper & Row, 1966; 1988), p. 629.

”any man's son...any other man's son”: Frances M. Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832; Barre, Ma.s.s.: Imprint Society, 1969), p. 93.

thousands of young men to break away: Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge, Ma.s.s., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 88.

the Louisiana Purchase: See Robert Wiebe, The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the Const.i.tution to the Eve of Disunion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), pp. 13132; ”Louisiana Purchase,” in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), p. 682.

”Americans are always moving...the mountainside”: Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943), pp. 3, 78.

In the South...thriving cities: Thomas Dublin, ”Internal Migration,” in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, pp. 56465.

”Every American...to rise”: de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Mayer, p. 627.

born on May 16, 1801: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 3.

Samuel Seward: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 1920; Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, pp. 12; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 12.

”a considerable...destined preferment”: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 20, 21.

Seward's early education: Ibid., pp. 20, 22; ”Biographical Memoir of William H. Seward,” The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. I, ed. George E. Baker (5 vols., New York: J. S. Redfield, 1853; New York: AMS Press, 1972), pp. xvixvii.

”at five in the morning...politics or religion!”: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 21, 22.

Seward slaves: Ibid., p. 27. The Sewards still owned seven slaves in 1820. See entry for Samuel S. Seward, Warwick, Orange County, N.Y., Fourth Census of the United States, 1820 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33, reel 64), RG 29, DNA.

”loquacious”...to fight against slavery: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 2728.

status of slavery in the North after the Revolution: Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black: American Att.i.tudes Toward the Negro, 15501812 (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977), p. 345; Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 17901860 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1961), pp. 3, 6.

slavery eliminated in New York by 1827: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 14.

enrolled in...Union College: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 4.

”a magnificent...so imposing”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 29.

”I cherished...of my cla.s.s”: Ibid., p. 31.

”had determined...at Union College”: Ibid., p. 35.

”all the eminent...a broken heart”: Ibid., pp. 35, 3643.

”Matters prosper...even his notice”: WHS to Daniel Jessup, Jr., January 24, 1820, reel 1, Seward Papers.

”was received as a student...in Was.h.i.+ngton Hall”: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 4748.