Part 90 (1/2)
a dreary day, November 2, 1858: Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., November 3, 1858.
Lincoln anxiously awaited the returns: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, p. 43; Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 173.
”by the gerrymandering...Republican votes”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 68.
John Crittenden: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 118.
”Thousands of Whigs...influence of Crittenden”: WHH to Theodore Parker, November 8, 1858, quoted in Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, p. 49.
”The emotions of defeat...anything dishonorable”: AL to John J. Crittenden, November 4, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 33536.
”I am glad...after I am gone”: AL to Anson G. Henry, November 19, 1858, in ibid., p. 339.
”must not be surrendered...hundred defeats”: AL to Henry Asbury, November 19, 1858, in ibid., p. 339.
”You will soon...have fun again”: AL to Charles H. Ray, November 20, 1858, in ibid., p. 342.
CHAPTER 7: COUNTDOWN TO THE NOMINATION
”decided impression...candidate for the presidency”: Jesse W. Fell, quoted in Oldroyd, comp., The Lincoln Memorial, p. 474.
”so much better known...you or anybody else”: AL, quoted by Jesse W. Fell, quoted in ibid., pp. 474, 476.
when the Republican editor...”for the Presidency”: Thomas J. Pickett to AL, April 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
”I certainly am...fit for the Presidency”: AL to Thomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1859, in CW, III, p. 377.
Certain that Seward...overseas for eight months: Luthin, First Lincoln Campaign, p. 31.
”All our discreet friends...recess of Congress”: WHS to George W. Patterson, April 6, 1859, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 196.
f.a.n.n.y Seward desolate...approaching departure: April 1859 entries, Frances (f.a.n.n.y) Adeline Seward diary, reel 198, Seward Papers [hereafter f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers].
description of f.a.n.n.y Seward, literary pursuits: Johnson, ”Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 27, 7678, 8384.
”'my affinity'...instead of speak”: f.a.n.n.y Seward, quoted in ibid., p. 55.
Seward in Europe: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, pp. 362436.
prepared a major address: Taylor, William Henry Seward, pp. 11516.
Henry Stanton later...”posterity together”: Stanton, Random Recollections, pp. 21213.
”I wish it were over”: FAS to William H. Seward, Jr., February 29, 1860, reel 115, Seward Papers.
f.a.n.n.y...seated in the gallery: Entry for February 29, 1860, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
”The whole house...was very still”: Entry for February 29, 1860, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.