Part 93 (1/2)
”Well, B.... as a man ought to want”: ”Recollections of Mr. McCormick,” in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 251 (quote); Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 86. Holzer identifies ”B.” as Mayson Brayman.
Lincoln paid a visit...”shorten [his] neck”: AL, quoted in James D. Horan, Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), p. 31. For portrait, see plate 93 in Horan.
weather and attendance: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 202; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 103, 303 n55.
”this western man”: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, p. 173.
Lincoln's appearance: Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 369.
”one of the legs...longer than his sleeves”: Russell H. Conwell, ”Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women,” quoted in Wayne Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln. A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1908), p. 308.
had labored to craft his address: Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 17475; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 5053.
”Our fathers...protection a necessity”: AL, ”Address at Cooper Inst.i.tute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 522, 535.
a ”hue and cry...never can be reversed”: AL, ”Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Was.h.i.+ngton Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in CW, I, p. 273.
Cooper Union speech: AL, ”Address at Cooper Inst.i.tute, New York City,” February 27, 1860, in CW, III, pp. 52250, esp. 537, 538, 547, 550.
erupted in thunderous applause: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 15859.
Briggs predicted...”have heard tonight”: James Briggs, quoted in Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, p. 147.
”When I came out...'since St. Paul'”: Unknown observer, quoted in ibid., p. 146.
undertaking an exhausting tour: See copies of Lincoln's speeches in Rhode Island and New Hamps.h.i.+re, in CW, III, pp. 55054, and speeches in Connecticut, CW, IV, pp. 230; Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, pp. 17677.
He was forced to decline...”before the fall elections”: AL to Isaac Pomeroy, March 3, 1860, in CW, III, p. 554.
”being within my calculation...ideas in print”: AL to MTL, March 4, 1860, in ibid., p. 555.
Lincoln first met Gideon Welles: J. Doyle DeWitt, Lincoln in Hartford (privately printed: n.d.), p. 5; John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 287, 289.
Gideon Welles's appearance and career: John T. Morse, Introduction, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. I: 1861March 30, 1864 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press, 1911), pp. xviixxi; Richard S. West, Jr., Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Navy Department (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943).
”the party of the Southern slaveocracy”: Morse, Introduction, Diary of Gideon Welles (1911 edn.), p. xix.
had settled on Chase...”very expensive rulers”: West, Gideon Welles, pp. 7879, 81 (quote p. 78).
Lincoln and Welles spent several hours: DeWitt, Lincoln in Hartford, p. 5; Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 289.
the Hartford speech: AL, ”Speech at New Haven, Connecticut,” March 6, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 18.
”as if the people...out loud”: James Russell Lowell, ”Abraham Lincoln,” in The Writings of James Russell Lowell, Vol. V, Political Essays (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892), p. 208.
”introduced the Trojan horse”: WHS, ”Admission of Kansas. Speech of Hon. W. H. Seward, of New York, In the Senate, April 9, 1856,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 405.
Lincoln met with Welles again: ”The Career of Gideon Welles,” typescript ma.n.u.script draft, Henry B. Learned Papers, reel 36, Welles Papers; Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 78.