Part 88 (1/2)
Dred Scott was sold...to slavery: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, p. 290.
Speaking in Springfield...”circ.u.mstances should permit”: AL, ”Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” June 16, 1857, in CW, II, pp. 398410 (quotes p. 403, 405, 406).
”The day of inauguration...English liberty”: WHS, ”Kansas-Lecompton Const.i.tution,” March 3, 1858, Senate, Congressional Globe, 35th Cong., 1st sess., p. 941.
reaction to Seward speech...access to the White House: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 190.
”have refused...to such a man”: Samuel Tyler, Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney (Baltimore, 1872; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), p. 391.
Seward's Rochester, New York, speech: WHS, ”The Irrepressible Conflict, Rochester, October 25, 1858,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, pp. 289302 (quotes pp. 291, 292; italics added).
Frances Seward...stance of the South: FAS to CS, January 4, 1859, reel 17, Sumner Papers.
”that troubled...irrepressible?”: Kenneth M. Stampp, ”The Irrepressible Conflict,” in Stampp, The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980; 1981), p. 191.
uproar in opposition papers: Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., October 28, 1858.
”more repulsive...Rev. Dr. Parker”: NYH, October 28, 1858.
”never comprehended...words”: Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, p. 191.
”if heaven...do it again”: WHS, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 194.
conciliatory...with his adversaries: David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1942), pp. 2526.
”alarm and apprehension”: WHS to FAS, February 9, 1849, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 98.
”This general impression...'Night's Dream'”: WHS to FAS, February 9, 1849, quoted in ibid., p. 98.
”Those who a.s.sailed...pinch of snuff”: Albany Evening Journal, May 19, 1890.
Seward's extravagant dinner parties: Columbus [Ohio] Gazette, April 6, 1860 (quotes); Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 25758.
a trip through Canada: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, pp. 30122; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 183.
”voyage of discovery”: FPB to WHS, October 5, 1857, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 324.
”very best traveling”...elegant meals: FPB to WHS, November 1, 1857, quoted in ibid., p. 326.
”At an age...of the nation”: Cincinnati Enquirer, August 6, 1899.
”a scientific knowledge...surpa.s.sed”: Peac.o.c.k, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, p. 214.
”Her complexion...of her head”: Sara A. Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War. Revised and enlarged ed. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905), pp. 7576.
Gothic mansion on Sixth Street: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 200, 201, 204; SPC to KCS, December 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
”I feel I am...trust yours”: SPC to KCS, December 5, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
”you have capacity and will do very well”: SPC to KCS, December 4, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.