Part 91 (1/2)
his ”legislative child”: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 53.
People's Party state convention: Crippen, Simon Cameron, Ante-bellum Years, pp. 201, 205.
Andrew Curtin...challenging Cameron: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, pp. 5556.
Chase and the Baileys...”in European tradition”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 61, 123, 14041 (quote p. 140).
”detestable” Know Nothings: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, November 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
”in the presidential...other man”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, June 26, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
”observing the signs...integrity or my friends.h.i.+p”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, January 16, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
”I do not doubt...spontaneous growth”: SPC to Gamaliel Bailey, January 24, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
”a slip of your pen...as a friend”: Gamaliel Bailey to SPC, January 30, 1859, reel 12, Chase Papers.
preferred the unrealistic...on the first ballot: Hiram Barney to SPC, November 10, 1859, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Failing once again to appoint: Donnal V. Smith, ”Salmon P. Chase and the Election of 1860,” OAHQ 39 (July 1930), p. 520.
He rejected an appeal from a New Hamps.h.i.+re supporter: Amos Tuck to SPC, March 14, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
He never capitalized...a series of letters: Reinhard H. Luthin, ”Pennsylvania and Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 67 (January 1943), p. 66; SPC to Hiram Barney, September 22, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers; Smith, ”Salmon P. Chase and the Election of 1860,” OAHQ (1930), pp. 52021; Luthin, ”Salmon P. Chase's Political Career Before the Civil War,” MVHR (1943), p. 531.
”I now begin...but he works”: James M. Ashley to SPC, April 5, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
”I shall have n.o.body...of the State”: SPC to Benjamin Eggleston, May 10, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
”The Ohio delegation...as yet”: Erastus Hopkins to SPC, May 17, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
”in a position...to occupy”: SPC to Benjamin R. Cowen, May 14, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
Kate convinced her father: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 42.
Seward was very kind...”good deal of joking”: SPC to James A. Briggs, April 27, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers (quote); WHS to FAS, April 27, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 447.
organized a party...”two rivals within”: WHS to FAS, April 28, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 447.
the Blairs threw...”well-cultivated”: WHS to FAS, April 29, 1860, quoted in ibid., p. 448.
”attention to Katie...kind to me”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, May 4, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
”Everybody seems...confidence in me”: SPC to James A. Briggs, April 27, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
”a great change...I was in Was.h.i.+ngton”: SPC to James A. Briggs, May 8, 1860, reel 13, Chase Papers.
But he never left his home state...to visit him: See entries from January to May 1860 in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866; Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 95.
”the first...two years”: Entry for February 22, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 101.