Part 87 (1/2)

”the most un-American...or elsewhere”: Response by Lewis Ca.s.s to CS's speech, May 20, 1856, Appendix the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 544.

Preston Brooks's attack on Sumner: See Boston Pilot, May 31, 1856; NYT, May 23, 1856; Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 29497.

”You have libelled...come to punish you”: Boston Pilot, May 31, 1856.

”Knots of men...by the slave power”: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, May 29, 1856.

Ma.s.s public meetings: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 30001.

”see the slave aggression...in Congress”: F. A. Sumner to CS, June 24, 1856, quoted in Gienapp, ”The Crime Against Sumner,” CWH (1979), p. 230.

”but the knocking-down...Southern spirit”: NYTrib, May 24, 1856.

”proved a...Republican party”: Gienapp, ”The Crime Against Sumner,” CWH (1979), p. 239.

Sumner hero in North, Brooks in South: Ibid., pp. 221, 22223; Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 29799, 30407.

”good in conception...in consequence”: Richmond Enquirer, June 3, 1856, quoted in Gienapp, ”The Crime Against Sumner,” CWH (1979), p. 222.

presented Brooks...and walking stick: Columbia [S.C.] Carolinian, reprinted in Charleston Daily Courier, May 28, 1856.

”We are rejoiced...catch it next”: Richmond Whig, quoted in NYT, May 26, 1856.

”If thras.h.i.+ng is...wretch, Sumner”: Petersburg [Va.] Intelligencer, quoted in NYT, May 29, 1856.

”apparent that...Brooks-Sumner affair”: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, p. 309.

”all shades...and abolitionists”: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 165.

”fire and energy and force”: Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 313.

”That is the greatest...the presidency”: Jesse K. Dubois, quoted in Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 257.

”Lost Speech”: Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856, report in the Alton Weekly Courier, June 5, 1856, in CW, II, p. 341; Oates, With Malice Toward None, pp. 13637.

By the late spring of 1856: Republican National Convention, One Hundred Years Ago: Proceedings of the First Republican Nominating Convention, Philadelphia, 1856 (n.p.: n.p., 1956); Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 33445.

both Seward and Chase...the nomination: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 174, 176; SPC to Hiram Barney, June 6, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.

gubernatorial election...nomination in 1856: Reinhard H. Luthin, ”Salmon P. Chase's Political Career Before the Civil War,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29 (March 1943), p. 525; SPC to Kinsley S. Bingham, October 19, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.

meeting at Blair home: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I, pp. 32324; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 178; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 25051.

”approving...invitation”: WHS to TW, December 31, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 264.

turned to potential candidates: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 17879.

”if the unvarnished...people”: SPC to Edward Hamlin, June 12, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.

neglected to appoint a manager...failed to unite: Hiram Barney to SPC, June 21, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers; entry for June 1856, SPC diary, 18451859, reel 1, Chase Papers, DLC; Luthin, ”Salmon P. Chase's Political Career Before the Civil War,” MVHR (1943), p. 526.