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bought a stack of small notebooks: Entry for January 1, 1855, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 136; "List of Members of the Illinois Legislature in 1855," [January 1, 1855?], in CW, II, pp. 29698.
To reach a majority...fragile coalition: Miller, Lincoln's Virtues, p. 303.
On the first ballot: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in CW, II, p. 304.
five anti-Nebraska..."at home": Joseph Gillespie to WHH, September 19, 1866, in HI, p. 344.
Trumbull story: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in CW, II, pp. 30406; Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, and September 19, 1866, in HI, pp. 18283, 34445.
"you will lose both...to men": Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in HI, p. 183.
"spectators scarcely...the contest": John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. I (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 390.
"perhaps his last...high position": Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in HI, p. 182.
Logan put his hands: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 130.
"he never would...by the 5": David Davis, quoted in AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, CW, II, p. 306.
at Trumbull's victory party: Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. III (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1928), p. 287; White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 19.
"worse whipped...Trumbull is elected": AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln, in defeat, gained friends: Donald, Lincoln, p. 185.
"cold, selfish, treachery": MTL to Leonard Swett, January 12, 1867, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 406.
never spoke another word: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. III, p. 286; Miller, Lincoln's Virtues, p. 312.
intermediaries tried...never healed: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 310; Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union, p. 76.
to blackball him: MTL to David Davis, January 17, 1861, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p.
71; entry for December 3, 1865, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson. Vol. II: April 1, 1864December 31, 1866, ed. Howard K. Beale (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1960), p. 390 [hereafter Welles diary, Vol. II].
an "agony": AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in CW, II, p. 304.
"He could bear...his friends": Joseph Gillespie, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 184.
celebrated law case: Unless otherwise noted, information and quotations related to the Reaper case have been derived from Robert H. Parkinson to Albert J. Beveridge, May 28, 1923, container 292, Beveridge Papers, DLC.
Peter Watson: Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 18091858, Vol. II, p. 280.
"At our interview...Manny's machine": AL to Peter H. Watson, July 23, 1855, in CW, II, pp. 31415.
"Why did you bring...no good": WHH to JWW, January 6, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
"rapt attention": Ralph and Adaline Emerson, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Emerson's Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Rockford, Ill.: Wilson Brothers Co., 1909), p. 7.
"drinking in his words": Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 63.
"to study law": Emerson, Emerson's Personal Recollections, p. 7.
"For any rough-...will be ready": Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 63.
"You have made...to return here": AL, quoted in W. M. d.i.c.kson, "Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 69 (June 1884), p. 62.
"the most powerful...his gift": Miller, Lincoln's Virtues, p. 425.
despite his initial contempt...respect and love Lincoln: Lewis Hutchison Stanton to unknown correspondent, January 4, 1930, quoted in the appendix to Gideon Townsend Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton: A Personal Portrait as revealed in letters addressed to his wife Ellen Hutchison during his voyage to and sojourn in San Francisco...and including letters covering the period 1854 to 1869," undated, typed ma.n.u.script, EdwinM. Stanton Ma.n.u.script, Mss. 1648, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. [hereafter Gideon Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton"]; Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 382.
the "long armed Ape": WHH to JWW, January 6, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
Stanton's comfortable childhood...and other works of history: Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," esp. pp. 2021, 24, 28, 30, 38, 39, 40, 6667.
the "happiest hours of his life": Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 37.
"regenerate the world": Mary Lamson Stanton to EMS, December 13, 1843, quoted in Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 108.
Mary Lamson and children: EMS, "Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton"; Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 30, 32, 3637, 38.
"bright and cheery": Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 63.
Stanton looked upon...and Byron: EMS to Edwin L. Stanton, quoted in Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 113.
"We years ago...cannot express": EMS to Mary Lamson Stanton, December 16, 1842, EMS, "Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton."
deaths of Lucy and Mary: EMS, "Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton"; Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," pp. 72, 99; Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, pp. 38, 44.
"verged on insanity": Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 35.
"She is my bride"...held that spring: Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 39.
"with lamp in hand...Where is Mary?": Wolcott, "Edwin M. Stanton," p. 100.
Stanton's responsibilities...go of his sorrow: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 3536.
a letter of over a hundred pages: EMS, "Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton."
"tears obscuring his vision": Gideon Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton."
"anguish of heart": EMS, "Mary Lamson, Wife of Edwin M. Stanton."
"but time, care...for each other": Ibid.
developed a high fever: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 40.
"He bled...few moments": Alfred Taylor, quoted in Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton, p. 45.
