Part 81 (1/2)

Frances Seward in the gallery: FAS to LW, February 10, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.

F Street house in Was.h.i.+ngton: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 118; Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 111. The house was located on the north side of F Street, NW, between Sixth and Seventh Streets.

”He is a charming...I supposed”: FAS to LW, February 10, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.

John Calhoun in the Senate: Pike, ”Speeches of Webster and Calhoun,” from the Portland Advertiser, March 9, 1850, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 15; Ben: Perley Poore, Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Vol. I (Philadelphia, 1886; New York: AMS Press, 1971), p. 365.

Calhoun's speech read by Mason: John C. Calhoun, ”The Compromise,” March 4, 1850, Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., pp. 45155.

the ”great triumvirate”: Richard N. Current, ”Webster, Daniel,” in The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 1139.

”crammed”...previous occasion: National Intelligencer, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., March 8, 1850.

the rumor that Webster...was watching: FAS to LW, March 10, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.

”I wish to speak”: ”Compromise Resolutions. Speech of Mr. Webster, of Ma.s.sachusetts, in the Senate, March 7, 1850,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., pp. 26976 (quote p. 269).

”Mr Webster has deliberately...years in doing”: Journal BO, p. 217, in The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. XI: 18481851, ed. A. W. Plumstead and William H. Gilman (Cambridge, Ma.s.s., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 34748.

Frances Seward on Webster's speech: FAS to LW, March 10, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.

speech won nationwide approval from moderates: Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997), pp. 67475.

”How little they know...he thinks just”: FAS to LW, March 10, 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.

Antislavery advocates had no need: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 23.

He had talked at length...before Frances: FAS to WHS, July 8, 1850, reel 114, Seward Papers; Seward, An Autobiography, p. 703; Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 175.

description of Seward's speaking style: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 122; Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, pp. 19091.

he quoted Machiavelli: Pike, ”Governor Seward's Speech,” March 12, 1850, from the Boston Courier, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 18.

Webster was riveted...”sat still”: Holman Hamilton, Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House, Vol. II (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951; Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1989), p. 316.

content of Seward's speech: WHS, ”California, Union, and Freedom. Speech of William H. Seward, of New York, in the Senate, March 11, 1850,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 31st Cong., 1st sess., pp. 26069 (quotes pp. 262, 263, and 265).

With this single speech: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 128.

Tens of thousands of copies: WHS to TW, March 22 and 31, 1850, in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 129.

”live longer...of the Session”: NYTrib, March 19, 1850.

Chase prepares with Sumner: CS to SPC, February 19, March 22 and 23, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers.

”I find no man...yourself”: SPC to CS, September 15, 1849, reel 8, Chase Papers.

”a tower of strength”: CS to SPC, February 7, 1849, reel 7, Chase Papers.

”confirm the irresolute...confound the trimmers”: CS to SPC, February 7, 1849, reel 7, Chase Papers.