Part 98 (1/2)
”our adversaries...to the charge”: AL to Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 86.
this election would not be determined...carefully addressed in the Republican Party platform: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 13 (quote), 14853.
an entourage: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 461; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 23233.
”cannons...'Wide Awakes'”: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 461; Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, pp. 10407.
”Viewed from...in wild cheerings”: ”Springfield Correspondence, 9 August 1860,” in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 6.
the ”Chloroformers”: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 174.
”procession of young men...carts and wagons”: Entry for September 8, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.
”All of this reminded...a gaping crowd”: Ibid.
In St. Paul, Minnesota...steps of the Capitol: Press and Tribune, Chicago, September 24, 1860.
”without repet.i.tion...of the auditors”: Fite, The First Presidential Campaign, p. 213.
”the whole population...Well, I ought to”: Supplement to NYT, September 29, 1860.
”where, when...'this tobacco question'”: Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915: An Autobiography, with a Memorial Address Delivered November 17, 1915, by Henry Cabot Lodge (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), pp. 6162.
”integrity...grandest & highest”: Israel Washburn, Jr., to WHS, November 14, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
”I am sure...taken a-back by”: Richard Blatchford to FAS, October 3, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
”marveled more & more...by any American”: CS to FAS, October 10, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.
”Yes Henry is...Is that the word”: FAS to CS, September 5, 1860, reel 20, Sumner Papers.
”There was a rush...Seward was seated”: NYH, October 2, 1860.
”was a revelation...out of place”: Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915, pp. 61, 64 (quote).
”Twelve years ago...believed that it would be”: NYH, October 2, 1860.
Lincoln asked...”it already existed”: King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 157.
Seward readily agreed...intercourse with the South: NYT, September 27, 1860; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 233.
”noisy throng...approaching greatness”: Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915, pp. 6768.
”Remembering that Peter...I will not”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, June 5, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 71.
a humorous fictional dialogue: AL, ”Dialogue between Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge,” September 29, 1860, in ibid., pp. 12324.
”I give the leave...in any respect”: AL to William D. Kelley, October 13, 1860, in ibid., p. 127.
”for your face...like whiskers”: Grace Bedell to AL, October 15, 1860, in ibid., p. 130.