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"The President...the country to chance": WHS to FAS, March 8, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 518.
Lincoln sent Chase's nomination...to the Senate: Entries for March 3, 5, and 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 24, 26; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 234.
"Ever conscious...of protocol": Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 238.
"referred to the...finally yielded": SPC to Trowbridge, quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 207.
"The construction of...only by experience": The States and Union, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., February 26, 1861.
Lincoln's "first decision...been nominated": "Campaign of 1860 & Journey to Was.h.i.+ngton," container 9, Nicolay Papers.
James Buchanan..."deepened party divisions": Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part I: Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos, 18571859, new introduction by James M. McPherson (New York: 1978; New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1992), p. 67.
"he must risk...dangers of rebellion": "Campaign of 1860 & Journey to Was.h.i.+ngton," container 9, Nicolay Papers.
asked Lincoln why..."of their services": Joseph Medill, quoted in H. I. Cleveland, "Booming the First American President: A Talk with Abraham Lincoln's Friend, the Late Joseph Medill," Sat.u.r.day Evening Post 172, August 5, 1899, p. 85.
For further a.n.a.lysis of the making of the cabinet, see Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (n.p.: University Press of Kansas, 1994), pp. 2145.
CHAPTER 12: "MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY"
Mary the night before the inaugural: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 168.
strangers swarming...streets below: Star, March 4, 1861.
"Lincoln often resorted...or argument": JGN, "Some Incidents in Lincoln's Journey from Springfield to Was.h.i.+ngton," in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 107.
out of four doc.u.ments: Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 386.
"such a crowd...about him": Orville H. Browning, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 6.
Browning focused on one imprudent pa.s.sage: WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 322.
"threat, or menace...palpably in the wrong": Orville H. Browning to AL, February 17, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"strong and conclusive": WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 321.
"bound by duty...s.h.i.+ft his position": AL, "First Inaugural Address-First Edition and Revisions," January 1861, in CW, IV, p. 250.
"exclusive and defiant...negro equality": Entry for May 19, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 129.
"give such advantages...exercise of power": WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, pp. 320, 321.
"treasonable"...would only "aggravate the dispute": AL, "First Inaugural Address-First Edition and Revisions," January 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 253 n32, 257 n67, 260, 260 n85.
"to the effect...and irrevocable": AL, "First Inaugural Address-Final Text," March 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 270.
"With you... 'or a sword?'": AL, "First Inaugural Address-First Edition and Revisions," January 1861, in ibid., p. 261.
"to meet...cheerful confidence": WHS to AL, February 24, 1861, quoted in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, p. 321.
"I close...angel of the nation": WHS revision, in AL, "First Inaugural Address-First Edition and Revisions," January 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 26162 n99.
"I am loth...angels of our nature": AL, "First Inaugural Address-Final Text," March 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 271.
Lincoln read the speech...left alone: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 208.
the morning newspapers...of his house: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 515.
"I have been...and the free": L. A. Gobright, Recollection of Men and Things at Was.h.i.+ngton, During the Third of a Century (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869), p. 291.
"Disappointment!...little Illinois lawyer!": Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 22122.
As the clock..."Hail to the Chief": Stanley Kimmel, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton (New York: Coward-McCann, 1957), p. 23; Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 40203.
cheering crowds...throughout the entire route: Julia Taft Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father (Boston: Little, Brown, 1931), pp. 1718; "The Diary of a Public Man, part III," North American Review 129 (October 1879), p. 382.
"A sharp, cracking...in the aggregate": Star, March 4, 1861.
"a.s.sume[d] an almost idyllic...large rural village": Edna M. Colman, Seventy-five Years of White House Gossip: From Was.h.i.+ngton to Lincoln (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926), pp. 27981 (first and third quotes attributed by Colman to foreign observer J. G. Kohl).
platform seating; Baker...introduced the president-elect: NYT, March 5, 1861; Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, pp. 4546.
Douglas reached over...his own lap: "The Diary of a Public Man, part III," NAR (1879), p. 383; Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 46.
outdoor venues of the Western states: NYT, March 5, 1861; Leech, Reveille in Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 44.
"no purpose...better angels of our nature": AL, "First Inaugural Address-Final Text," March 4, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 26366, 269, 271.
"The Mansion...dinner prepared": Grimsley, "Six Months in the White House," JISHS, p. 46.
"If you are as happy...this country": James Buchanan, quoted in Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I, pp. 13738.
hasty unpacking...dressed for the Inaugural Ball: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 209.
Inaugural Ball: NYH, March 6, 1861; NYT, March 6, 1861; Colman, Seventy-five Years of White House Gossip, p. 268.
"because of...in its decoration": Colman, Seventy-five Years of White House Gossip, p. 268.
Brightened by...good deal of s.p.a.ce: NYH, March 6, 1861.
"Dressed all in blue...and pearls": Leech, Reveille in Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 46.
she danced the quadrille...her exhausted husband: Star, March 5, 1861; Leech, Reveille in Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 46.
"What an inappreciable...5th of March": Entry for March 4, 1861, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
