Part 152 (1/2)

”If you decline...the nomination”: AL, quoted in ”1 July 1864, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 216.

”Telegrams came pouring...the most miserable”: William Pitt Fessenden to his cousin, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 320.

”Very well...save your country”: EMS, quoted in ibid., p. 321.

As he was driven...”danger to the country”: William Pitt Fessenden to Justice Tenney, quoted in ibid., pp. 31718.

”He is a man...personal integrity”: Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1864.

”He is honest...Republican Senators”: EBL to SPL, July 2, 1864, in Wartime Was.h.i.+ngton, ed. Laas, p. 398.

”I am the most popular man in my country”: William Pitt Fessenden, quoted in Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden, Vol. I, p. 326.

”So my official life closes”: Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.

the oppressive heat of Was.h.i.+ngton...”are wilting”: Entry for July 31, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 392.

”laid broad foundations”...was still unfinished: Entry for June 30, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 471.

Blair and Bates called...”as a blessing”: Entry for June 30, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 6263 (quote p. 63).

”the courage and candor to admit his errors”: Entry for March 23, 1864, ibid., p. 545.

”his jokes are...dest.i.tute of wit”: Entry for March 22, 1864, ibid., p. 545.

”a vague feeling...to be cordial”: Entry for June 30, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 381.

”dropped off...every body else”: FPB to FB, July 4, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, p. 271.

Seward, unlike...”first day of the Administration”: WHS to FAS, [July] 2, 1864, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 230.

he noted sadly...”since my resignation”: Entry for July 13, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 479.

If Chase believed...he was mistaken: SPC to EMS, June 30, 1864, in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 618.

Chase searched for reasons...”hostile to me”: Entry for July 4, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 476.

”The root...a joke out of this war”: SPC to Whitelaw Reid, quoted in Albert Bushnell Hart, Salmon P. Chase. American Statesmen Series (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), p. 318.

To Kate...”cannot finish what I began”: SPC to KCS, July 3, 1864, reel 34, Chase Papers.

whose marriage to William...”the balance of power”: Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 78.

”Can it be...even with far less material wealth”: Entry for November 4, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers (quotes); Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, pp. 74, 8485.

occasionally loathing...”learned to submit”: Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.

Chase witnessed a fight...her first child: Entry for September 9, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 501 (quote); Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 13536, 144.

The Wade-Davis bill: H. R. 244, 38th Cong., 1st sess. (”Wade-Davis Bill”), in The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 18611870, ed. Harold Hyman. American Heritage Series (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), pp. 12834.