Part 101 (1/2)
”In these troublous...here at once”: AL to SPC, December 31, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 168.
”they should be placed...been your friends”: Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
”from very strong and unexpected quarters”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, November 27, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 145.
Cameron to Springfield: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, p. 25.
”The unexpected arrival”...unsavory reputation: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 4546 (quotes p. 45).
reached the Chenery House: Entry for December 30, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 304.
”Shall I have the honor...to call here?”: Simon Cameron to AL, December 30, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
conversation between Lincoln and Cameron: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 2526.
”an exuberant school boy”: Erwin Stanley Bradley, Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War: A Political Biography (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), p. 168.
”There is an odor...such an appointment”: Lyman Trumbull to AL, December 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
”Since seeing you...tendered you”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 3, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 16970.
”travel-stained...from Columbus”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 222 (quote); entry for January 4, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 3.
meeting between Lincoln and Chase...”offer it to you”: Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 201.
”I frankly said...could give”: SPC to George Opd.y.k.e, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
”without hesitation...the advice of friends”: SPC to George Opd.y.k.e, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
Chase attended Sunday church: Entry for January 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 18091865. Vol. III: 18611865, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), p. 4.
Lincoln meets with Koerner and Judd: Entry for January 6, 1861, ibid., pp. 34.
”I am in a quandary...at the convention”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 114.
”It seems to me...brought to co-operate”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, January 7, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 171.
”under great anxiety...I consistently can”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 13, 1861, in ibid., p. 174.
”were entirely free & unreserved”: SPC to James S. Pike, January 10, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
”What is done...to Springfield”: SPC to Hiram Barney, January 8, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
had convinced Lincoln...official offers: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 220.
”I think that in allowing...and accept it”: SPC to Elizabeth Ellicott Pike, January 27, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.
”a s...o...b..lling process”: Elbert B. Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975), p. 138.
”desired by all...of the mult.i.tude”: Charleston Courier, quoted in Richmond Enquirer, November 16, 1860.