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"the most un-American...or elsewhere": Response by Lewis Ca.s.s to CS's speech, May 20, 1856, Appendix the Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 1st sess., p. 544.
Preston Brooks's attack on Sumner: See Boston Pilot, May 31, 1856; NYT, May 23, 1856; Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 29497.
"You have libelled...come to punish you": Boston Pilot, May 31, 1856.
"Knots of men...by the slave power": Boston Daily Evening Transcript, May 29, 1856.
Ma.s.s public meetings: Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 30001.
"see the slave aggression...in Congress": F. A. Sumner to CS, June 24, 1856, quoted in Gienapp, "The Crime Against Sumner," CWH (1979), p. 230.
"but the knocking-down...Southern spirit": NYTrib, May 24, 1856.
"proved a...Republican party": Gienapp, "The Crime Against Sumner," CWH (1979), p. 239.
Sumner hero in North, Brooks in South: Ibid., pp. 221, 22223; Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, pp. 29799, 30407.
"good in conception...in consequence": Richmond Enquirer, June 3, 1856, quoted in Gienapp, "The Crime Against Sumner," CWH (1979), p. 222.
presented Brooks...and walking stick: Columbia [S.C.] Carolinian, reprinted in Charleston Daily Courier, May 28, 1856.
"We are rejoiced...catch it next": Richmond Whig, quoted in NYT, May 26, 1856.
"If thras.h.i.+ng is...wretch, Sumner": Petersburg [Va.] Intelligencer, quoted in NYT, May 29, 1856.
"apparent that...Brooks-Sumner affair": Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, p. 309.
"all shades...and abolitionists": Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 165.
"fire and energy and force": Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 313.
"That is the greatest...the presidency": Jesse K. Dubois, quoted in Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 257.
"Lost Speech": Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856, report in the Alton Weekly Courier, June 5, 1856, in CW, II, p. 341; Oates, With Malice Toward None, pp. 13637.
By the late spring of 1856: Republican National Convention, One Hundred Years Ago: Proceedings of the First Republican Nominating Convention, Philadelphia, 1856 (n.p.: n.p., 1956); Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 33445.
both Seward and Chase...the nomination: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 174, 176; SPC to Hiram Barney, June 6, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
gubernatorial election...nomination in 1856: Reinhard H. Luthin, "Salmon P. Chase's Political Career Before the Civil War," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29 (March 1943), p. 525; SPC to Kinsley S. Bingham, October 19, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
meeting at Blair home: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. I, pp. 32324; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 178; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 25051.
"approving...invitation": WHS to TW, December 31, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 264.
turned to potential candidates: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 17879.
"if the unvarnished...people": SPC to Edward Hamlin, June 12, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
neglected to appoint a manager...failed to unite: Hiram Barney to SPC, June 21, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers; entry for June 1856, SPC diary, 18451859, reel 1, Chase Papers, DLC; Luthin, "Salmon P. Chase's Political Career Before the Civil War," MVHR (1943), p. 526.
"I know that if...been accomplished": Hiram Barney to SPC, June 21, 1856, reel 11, Chase Papers.
Seward had greater reason...Weed kept him from running: WHS to FAS, June 14 and 17, 1856, quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, pp. 27778; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 174, 17677; Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet, p. 95; Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, pp. 310, 339.
Lincoln was staying..."two steps at a time": Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, pp. 9495 (quote p. 95).
110 votes for vice president: Republican National Convention, One Hundred Years Ago, p. 67.
"Davis and I...reckon it's him": Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 96.
Bates refused...Whig National Convention: Cain, Lincoln's Attorney General, pp. 85, 8688.
American Party...preserving the Union: Ibid., p. 82.
"I am neither...disordered territory": EB before the Whig National Convention in Baltimore, July 1856, quoted in ibid., p. 88.
results of 1856 presidential election: Congressional Quarterly, Presidential Elections Since 1789, p. 181.
Dred Scott case: Paul Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Doc.u.ments. The Bedford Series in History and Culture (Boston and New York: Bedford Books, 1997); Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
"an uncompromising...antislavery movement": Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford, p. 29.
"Bright skies...bland atmosphere": Star, March 4, 1857.
Buchanan inaugural address: James Buchanan, "Inaugural Address, March 4, 1857," in The Works of James Buchanan, Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence. Vol. X: 18561860, ed. John Ba.s.sett Moore (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910), p. 106.
"are not included...bound to respect": Roger B. Taney, opinion quoted in Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford, pp. 3536.
did not stop even there...was not before it: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, pp. 27679.
"become convinced...its introduction": Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, quoted in ibid., p. 279 n24.
"one of the Court's...wounds": Opinion of Felix Frankfurter, in conversation with law clerk Richard N. Goodwin, as told to the author.
"often wrestled in the halls...justly won it": Richmond Enquirer, March 10, 1857.
"the accredited interpreter...and confused": Richmond Enquirer, March 13, 1857.
"Sheer blasphemy": Congressman John F. Potter, quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 104.
"ent.i.tled to just...Was.h.i.+ngton bar-room": NYTrib, March 7, 1857.
"an impartial judicial body"...would fail: Pike, "Decision of the Supreme Court," March 8, 1857, from the NYTrib, reprinted in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, pp. 36869 (quote p. 368).
"Judge Taney...good, evil": Frederick Dougla.s.s, "The Dred Scott Decision: Speech at New York, on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May 11, 1857," reprinted in Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford, p. 174.
"has aroused"...reported to Sumner: FAS to CS, April 23, 1857, reel 15, Sumner Papers.
