Part 95 (1/2)
”typically methodical way”: King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 135 (quote); see also p. 136, and chapter 11 generally.
”a drawback...Gov. Seward”: AL, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 145.
”It all worked...was Indiana”: Leonard Swett to Josiah H. Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 71.
”the whole of Indiana...to get”: AL to Richard M. Corwine, May 2, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 47 (quote); AL to Cyrus M. Allen, May 1, 1860, in ibid., p. 46.
Claims have been made...Caleb Smith: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 21415.
No deal was needed: Donald, Lincoln, p. 249.
Indiana...to back Lincoln: John D. Defrees to Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Hollister, Life of Schuyler Colfax, p. 148.
Committee of Twelve...”general good of the party”: Smith, ”The Nomination of Lincoln,” Davis Papers, ICHi.
Davis had previously...might be procured: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.
”Make no...bind me”: AL, Endors.e.m.e.nt on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat, May 17, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 50.
”Everybody was mad...'he must ratify it'”: Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, Vol. I, p. 289.
The Blairs had supposedly promised: Clay, The Life of Ca.s.sius Marcellus Clay, pp. 24446; Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 68.
”oceans of money”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 162.
”get every member...appointment”: King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 140.
”My a.s.surance to them...as much as possible”: Leonard Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
for a celebratory march...”a little too far”: Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, p. 164.
had manufactured duplicate tickets: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 16061.
”it was part of...the Convention”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.
friends and supporters from all over the state: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 16061.
”by a deafening shout”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.
”loud and long”: Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860.
”appalled us a little”: Swett to Drummond, May 27, 1860, quoted in Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, p. 72.
”If Mr. Seward's name...far and wide”: NYT, May 21, 1860.
”tremendous applause...Lincoln's favor”: Henry Raymond article, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 276.
”cold when compared”: NYT, May 21, 1860.
”trial of lungs”: Albany Evening Journal, May 18, 1860; NYH, May 19, 1860; NYT, May 19, 1860.