Part 80 (1/2)
”There are two...and odious”: WHS, ”The Election of 1848, Cleveland, Ohio, October 26, 1848,” Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 291302.
”of making voters...to intermarry”: AL's speech, ”Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois,” September 18, 1858, in CW, III, p. 145.
radicalism of the Western Reserve: Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Old Northwest, pp. 1314, 3132, 128.
the Cleveland Plain Dealer charged: Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 27, 1848.
”'Can nothing'...can and must do it”: WHS, ”The Election of 1848,” Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, p. 301.
”a political crime...political evil”: TW, quoted in Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 90.
”this question of slavery...partisan conflicts”: TW, Albany Evening Journal, 1836, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 319.
his provocative language: WHS to TW, March 31, 1850, Weed Papers; Holman Hamilton, Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House, Vol. II (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951), pp. 32122.
not fully ”ripened”: WHS to unknown recipient, May 28, 1846, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 809.
”wanted to level society up, not down”: Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 166.
”Probably no man...warmly appreciated”: NYTrib, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 113.
a Southern senator...”a shudder”: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 119.
”If we ever find...your odious neck”: ”Georgia Savannah” to WHS, January 22, 1850, in ibid., p. 130.
balance of power in the Ohio legislature: [Albert G. Riddle], ”The Election of Salmon P. Chase to the Senate, February 22, 1849,” The Republic 4 (March 1875), p. 180; Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 91.
Dr. Norton Townshend and John F. Morse: See Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 118; Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, pp. 9192.
drafted a deal...extensive patronage: SPC to Sarah Bella D. L. Chase, December 20, 1848, reel 7, Chase Papers; Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 10409, 112.
Chase journeyed to Columbus...money to more than one paper: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 11719, 121.
”After the Senatorial Election...rely on me”: SPC to Edward S. Hamlin, January 17, 1849 (erroneously dated 1848), reel 7, Chase Papers.
advanced money to...”mortgage to myself”: SPC to Stanley Matthews (copybook version), February 26, 1849, reel 7, Chase Papers.
”It is really important...Morse especially”: SPC to Edward S. Hamlin, January 17, 1849 (erroneously dated 1848), reel 7, Chase Papers.
”Every thing...of the Cause”: SPC to John F. Morse, January 19, [1849], reel 7, Chase Papers. The recipient's name does not appear on the letter itself, but he has been identified as John F. Morse. See Vol. II of Niven, ed., the Salmon P. Chase papers, pp. 21619.
”Every act...meant His Own”: Ohio State Journal, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 72.
voted to repeal the hated Black Laws: Noah Brooks, Statesmen (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904), p. 158.
”not see how...or profit by it”: Horace Greeley to SPC, April 16, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”It lost to him...his political after life”: Riddle, ”The Election of Salmon P. Chase,” Republic (1875), p. 183.