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discreet New Englander..."political gossip": Entry for August 31, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 131.
Times of London..."first cla.s.s power": NR, January 7, 1865.
Bates had contemplated..."to your age": Barton Bates to EB, May 13, 1864, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.
prospect of going home..."G.o.d's blessing": Entry for May 29, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 371.
Bates believed..."as long as I live": EB to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
first months as Attorney General...military matters: Entry for December 31, 1861, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 21819; entry for January 10, 1862, ibid., pp. 22326.
deliver a legal opinion..."and clothing": EB to AL, July 14, 1864, OR, Ser. 3, Vol. IV, pp. 49093 (quote p. 493).
Abolitionists applauded: Entry for May 26, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 371.
citizens.h.i.+p issue...of the United States: Frank J. Williams, "Attorney General Bates and Attorney President Lincoln," R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Ind., September 23, 2000, author's collection; Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 22223.
"Though esteemed...const.i.tutional interpretation": Daily Morning Chronicle, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., December 4, 1864, quoted in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 430.
reveals frustration..."no subordination": Entry for October 1, 1861, ibid., p. 196.
General Butler...arrests in Norfolk: Entry for August 4, 1864, ibid., pp. 39394.
"chief fear...easy good nature": Entry for February 13, 1864, ibid., p. 334.
troubled at the start..."sure to prevail": EB, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 6869.
each of his colleagues..."affable and kind": Entry for December 2, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 429.
Bates left..."with regret": Entry for November 30, 1864, ibid., p. 428.
forever connected..."when I am gone": Poem, quoted in entry for October 13, 1864, ibid., p. 419.
"My Cabinet...would have to be heeded": AL, quoted in t.i.tian J. Coffey, "Lincoln and the Cabinet," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
Holt declined the offer..."personal character": Joseph Holt to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
"I appoint you...come on at once": AL to James Speed, in CW, VIII, p. 126.
"Will leave tomorrow for Was.h.i.+ngton": James Speed to AL, December 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
"I am a...everywhere forever": James Speed, quoted in Gary Lee Williams, "James and Joshua Speed: Lincoln's Kentucky Friends" (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1971), p. 137.
"We are less now but true": James Speed to AL, November 25, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 138.
"a man I know...ought to know him well": AL, quoted in Coffey, "Lincoln and the Cabinet," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
Had it been..."freely and publicly": David Herbert Donald, "We Are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 38.
"You will find...by a big office": AL, quoted in Coffey, "Lincoln and the Cabinet," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1909 edn.), p. 197.
only position..."Stanton ever desired": Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 162.
"You have been wearing...owes it to you": Robert Grier to EMS, October 13, 1864, Stanton Papers, DLC.
Ellen Stanton..."subject tomorrow": Entry for October 16, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 68788.
Matthew Simpson..."I will do it": AL, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton."
Grant worried...stay at his post: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 337.
Stanton informed..."among candidates": Edwards Pierrepont to AL, November 24, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
He "felt that...higher ambition": Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 162.
"The country cannot...fame already": Henry Ward Beecher to EMS, November 30, 1864, quoted in ibid., p. 163.
"Often, in dark hours...fresh hope": EMS to Henry Ward Beecher, December 4, 1864, quoted in ibid., pp. 16364.
Welles told Lincoln..."suppose he would": Entry for November 26, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 182.
taken his son's...personal blow: Entry for September 27, 1864, ibid., p. 161.
"I beg you to indulge...of that Bench": FPB to AL, October 20, 1864, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 29899.
"Chase and his friends...Chief-Justices.h.i.+p": MTL, quoted in "If All the Rest Oppose," in Conversations with Lincoln, ed. Segal, p. 360.
"had been tried...stood by him": FPB to John A. Andrew, quoted in ibid., p. 360.
"a crowning and retiring honor": Entry for November 22, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 428.
had "personally solicited": Entry for October 18, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 688.
"If not overborne...to private life": Entry for November 22, 1864, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 42728.
"Of Mr. Chase's...not hesitate a moment": AL, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IX (New York: Century Co., 1890), p. 394.
similar comment..."life to the Bench": Schuyler Colfax, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 245.
"Now, I know...men can tell me": Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," Scribner's Monthly 15 (March 1878), p. 677.
"we have stood...fitness for the office": AL, quoted in Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 24445.
Oblivious to Stanton's..."life & work": SPC to EMS, October 13, 1864, Chase Papers, Vol. IV, p. 434.
"I have something...will be satisfied": AL and John B. Alley, quoted in John B. Alley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 58182.
Lincoln later told Senator Chandler..."nominated Chase": Entry for December 15, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 196.
