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When he sought and won a seat: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 2627.
"I have never...to have it again": EB to Julia Bates, April 11, 1825, Bates Papers, ViHi.
Bates's lonely journey to Was.h.i.+ngton: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"something of a melancholy...mood": EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"magic...feel it to be true": EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.
life in Was.h.i.+ngton: EB to Julia Bates, January 5 and 22, February 25, March 17, 1828, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"That man grows...a.s.sociate with him": EB to Julia Bates, February 25, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.
The main issues that confronted Bates: EB to Julia Bates, March 17, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi; Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 2832.
Benton and Barton were antagonists: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 2829.
Bates published a pamphlet: EB, Edward Bates Against Thomas H. Benton (St. Louis: Charless & Paschall, 1828).
"My piece is...never be effaced": EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"roaring disorder...magnificent appearance": EB to Julia Bates, February 23, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"As yet I only...is in my eye": EB to Julia Bates, January 5, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.
"O, that I could...my suns.h.i.+ne": EB to Julia Bates, February 25, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.
he lost his bid for reelection: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
got into a heated argument: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 3839.
"The code preserved...are well spent": Charles Gibson, The Autobiography of Charles Gibson, ed. E. R. Gibson, 1899, Gibson Papers, Mos.h.i.+.
"as much as any man...we possessed": EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.
two terms in the state legislature: "Bates, Edward," DAB, Vol. I, p. 48.
"the ablest...of that body": Switzler, "Lincoln's Attorney General," reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 27.
he decided in 1835: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 53, 55, 58.
the "curious fact...of the frog": Bates diary, September 17, 1847.
"bad stammerer...more devoted piety": Bates diary, December 15, 1849.
"Mistress & Queen": Bates diary, July 10, 1851.
"begrudge her the short respite": Bates diary, April 23, 1848.
"This day...in a large house": Bates diary, November 15, 1851.
Every year, on April 29: See, for example, entry for April 29, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 13.
"mighty changes...of the continent": Entry for April 29, 1859, in ibid.
His entries proudly record: Bates diary, November 7, 1847; December 20, 1847; December 9, 1852.
a great fire...cholera epidemic: Bates diary, May 18; June 1428; July 111, 1849.
"in perfect health"...fruits and vegetables: Bates diary, July 19, 1849.
medical ignorance..."two weeks at a time": Bates diary, June 21, 1849.
"I am one...of a known duty": EB to R. B. Frayser, June 1849, Bates Papers, Mos.h.i.+.
Bates filled the pages of his diary: Bates diary, May 21, 1847; May 22, 1847; November 22, 1847; December 10, 1847; March 13, 1848; May 6, 1848; March 11, 1849; March 29, 1851 (quote).
"the largest Convention...the Civil War": Floyd A. McNeil, "Lincoln's Attorney General; Edward Bates," Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1934, p. 155.
5,000 accredited delegates...David Dudley Field: Shaw, "A Neglected Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln," Transactions (1922), p. 54; Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1928), pp. 8990.
"Hon. Abraham...in the State": NYTrib, July 14, 1847.
"No one who saw...with woolen socks": E. B. Washburne, "Political Life in Illinois," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, p. 92.
"deep astonishment"...responsibility for its failure: Bates diary, July 5, 1847.
"leaped at one bound...prominence": Switzler, "Lincoln's Attorney General," reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 28.
Lincoln impressed...Democrat Field: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091859, Vol. II, p. 91.
"too intent...of Reporting": Albany Evening Journal, July 23, 1847.
"No account...do it justice": NYTrib, July 15, 1847.
"between sectional disruption...material greatness": Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, p. 63.
"he was interrupted...in attendance": TW, quoted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 30.
"the crowning act...either house of Congress": Bates diary, July 5, 1847.
"The nation cannot...and patriotism": Albany Evening Journal, July 23, 1847.
"the glittering bauble": Entry for February 28, 1860, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 106.
"n.o.ble aspirations...natural result": EB to TW, August 9, 1847, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, January 11, 1861.
"had no ambition...business of the country": Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 52, 53.
