Part 102 (1/2)

”to surrender...hang him!”: JGN to [TB?], December 22, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

”to either hold... may require”: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, December 21, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 159.

”vying”...bolster Buchanan's will: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 91, 93 (quote).

Anderson preempted...Castle Pinckney: Entries for December 26 and 27, 1860, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 1516.

Buchanan agreed...and headed north: Entries for January 2, 5, 8, and 9, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 2124; entries for January 4 and 5, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 3.

”a feverish excitement”: WHS to AL, December 28, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

Edwin Stanton...”traitors and spies”: Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in George C. Gorham, Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, Vol. I (2 vols., Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and The Riverside Press, 1899), p. 168.

If Maryland and Virginia...”& the navy”: Stephen H. Phillips to Horace Gray, January 31, 1861, Papers of Horace Gray, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.

”be made to believe... this danger”: EMS to SPC, January 23, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.

”came to a momentous...for him to turn”: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 98 (first quote), 99 (second quote), 100.

Watson would call...”discussed and settled”: Henry Wilson, ”Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870), p. 465.

”At length I have gotten...prudence is omitted”: WHS to AL, December 29, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

”treason is all around and amongst us”: WHS to FAS, December 29, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 488.

”abettors near the President”: WHS to TW, December 29, 1860, quoted in ibid., p. 487.

Stanton secretly spread word: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 108, 110, 111; Henry Wilson, ”Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly 25 (February 1870), p. 237.

”By early disclosure...enemies of their country”: Henry L. Dawes, ”Was.h.i.+ngton the Winter Before the War,” Atlantic Monthly 72 (August 1893), p. 163.

Stanton invited Sumner to his office: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 111; Wilson, ”Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly (1870), p. 466.

”found and read...place of deposit”: Dawes, ”Was.h.i.+ngton the Winter Before the War,” Atlantic Monthly (1893), p. 163.

”held the key to all discontent”: ”Two Ma.n.u.scripts of Gideon Welles,” ed. Muriel Bernitt, New England Quarterly XI (September 1938), p. 589.

”came to be regarded...Republican party”: Wilson, ”Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton,” Atlantic Monthly (1870), p. 465.

”By common consent...ruler of the country”: Adams, The Great Secession Winter, p. 22.

”Never in the history...from Lincoln himself”: Chicago Tribune, January 17, 1861.

”The families of nearly”...Jefferson Davis: NYTrib, January 19, 1861.

”No man was...his every word”: Boston Atlas and Bee, reprinted Cincinnati Commercial, January 20, 1861.

”to set forth...destruction would involve”: NYT, January 14, 1861.

of ”perpetual civil war...everything is lost”: WHS, January 12, 1861, Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd sess., p. 342.