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263 "with clean hands": Lyman Trumbull to AL, Dec. 2, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.
263 "in the case": CW, 4:148.
263 "much self distrust": W. H. Seward to AL, Dec. 28, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.
263 "difference between them?": CW, 4:150.
263 "white crows": Weed, Autobiography, p. 606.
263 Gilmer's candidacy died: For an excellent account of this episode see Daniel W. Crofts, "A Reluctant Unionist: John A. Gilmer and Lincoln's Cabinet," Civil War History 24 (Sept. 1978): 225249.
264 "other man's hundred": George S. Boutwell, Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs (New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902), 1:275.
264 "statesman to look": Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (New York: McClure Co., 1907), 2:34.
264 "place if offered": J. W. Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (New-York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874), p. 201; Robert B. Warden, An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1874), p. 365.
264 for the navy: The definitive biography is John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).
265 of Attorney General: Bates, Diary, pp. 164165.
265 "go for you": David Davis to AL, Nov. 19, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.
265 "he had supposed": Weed, Autobiography, p. 605.
265 "now or never": For an account of this choice, see Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 2933.
265 those of Pennsylvania: Both Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, and Baringer, A House Dividing, offer very full accounts of the Cameron imbroglio, on which I have relied heavily.
265 before the nomination: Joseph Casey to Leonard Swett, Nov. 27,1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.
266 "thing nominated you": Leonard Swett to AL, Nov. 30, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.
266 "as a party": Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 2829.
266 "into the cabinet": CW, 4:169170.
267 "Pennsylvania, and elsewhere". CW, 4:171.
267 "of the place": CW, 4:174.
268 forced it to retreat: For a detailed account of these developments, see Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln, vol. 2, Prologue to Civil War, 18591861 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950), chaps. 1112.
268 "a const.i.tutional right": New York Herald, Jan. 28, 1861.
268 not oppose it: CW, 4:270.
268 "suits them better", CW, 1:438.
