Team of Rivals

  “Write Mr. Casey…in that matter”: AL to Leonard Swett, July 16, 1860, in ibid., p. 84.

  “After all…Sebastopol we must take”: John Z. Goodrich, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 205.

  “such a result…must not allow it”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, September 4, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 110.

  “intimating that Douglas…Please write me”: AL to James F. Simmons, August 17, 1860, in ibid., p. 97.

  “tomorrow is…of the Country”: David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 158.

  “he was trying…the presidential Election”: Ward Hill Lamon to AL, October 10, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  “We are all in…be the next Pres’t”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, October 12, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

  “I never was better…any trouble”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, October 15, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

  With pride…“have the trial”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, October 20, 1860, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 66.

  Douglas had been barnstorming…to the South: Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 778–81, 786–97 (quotep. 781).

  “the first presidential…in person”: Paul F. Boller, Jr., Presidential Campaigns (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 101.

  “Mr. Lincoln is the next…I will go South”: Stephen A. Douglas, quoted in Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 797–98.

  “finest hour”: Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 1857–1861, p. 290.

  “I believe there is…must be inaugurated”: Stephen A. Douglas, quoted in Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, p. 800.

  “The cardinal error…danger of secession”: Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 1857–1861, p. 305.

  “we all dwelt in a fool’s Paradise”: Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 1835–1915, p. 69.

  “a sort of political…frighten the North”: Donn Piatt, Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union (New York and Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887), p. 30.

  “people of the South…of the government”: AL to John B. Fry, August 15, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 95.

  “the cry of disunion…‘sway Northern sentiment’”: Nashville Union and American, November 11, 1860, quoted and paraphrased in Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, pp. 352–53.

  shrugged…belligerent politicians: Press and Tribune, Chicago, October 3, 1860.

  “they cry out…Nobody!”: WHS, “Political Equality the National Idea, Saint Paul, September 18, 1860,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. IV, p. 344.

  “misrepresentations…triumph of our party”: FB, et al., to AL, October 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  Even John Breckinridge…splitting up the Union: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 341.

  “I have a good deal of news…it may be delusive”: AL to John Pettit, September 14, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 115.

  “there will be the most…great adroitness”: AL to TW, August 17, 1860, in ibid., pp. 97–98.

  “Can you afford…finish the work”: TW to WHS, October 25, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

  “the whole audience…tumultuous cheering”: NYTrib, November 3, 1860.

  “to stir whatever…the populace”: NYTrib, November 10, 1860.

  “was chatting…than the Presidency”: Samuel R. Weed, “Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln,” New York Times Magazine, February 14, 1932, p. 8.

  “the candidate…for his own electors”: William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Vol. III (Springfield, Ill.: Herndon’s Lincoln Publishing Co., 1888), p. 467.

  “who welcomed him…the Court room”: [JGN to TB?], November 6, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  wild “burst of enthusiasm”: NYTrib, November 10, 1860.

  “He said he had…read to the crowd”: Missouri Democrat, reprinted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 9, 1860.

  “seemed to understand…with previous elections”: Weed, “Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln,” NYT Magazine, p. 8.

  gathered at the telegraph office: Missouri Democrat, reprinted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 9, 1860.

  “The news would come…any hurry to hear it”: Weed, “Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln,” NYT Magazine, p. 9.

  “We have made steady…victory has been won”: Simeon Draper, quoted in ibid.

  “Uncle Abe…I know it”: Lyman Trumbull, quoted in ibid.

  “Not too fast…may not be over yet”: Ibid.

  a “victory” supper: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 206.

  “Don’t wait…before 10 o’clock”: TW, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 218.

  “a very happy man…such circumstances?”: AL, quoted by Henry C. Bowen, Recollections, p. 31, reprinted in Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln, p. 345.

  “Mary…we are elected!”: Henry C. Bowen, “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” The Independent, April 4, 1895, p. 4.

  CHAPTER 10: “AN INTENSIFIED CROSSWORD PUZZLE”

  “The excitement…was upon him”: GW to Isaac N. Arnold, November 27, 1872, folder 1, Isaac Newton Arnold Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  the citizens of Springfield…to their homes: William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), p. 6.

  “I began at once…the burden”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson. Vol. I: 1861–March 30, 1864, ed. Howard K. Beale (New York: W. W. Norton, 1960), p. 82.

  “into its usual quietness”: JGN to TB, November 11, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  “This was on…finally selected”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 82.

  On a blank card…a former Whig: Enclosure in Kinsley S. Bingham, Solomon Foot, and Zachariah Chandler to AL, January 21, 1861, Lincoln Papers; Donald, Lincoln, pp. 261–62.

  “the mad scramble”: Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943; Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1964), p. 3.

  “muddy boots…often ringing laughter”: Henry Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61: A Journalist’s Story, ed. Harold G. and Oswald Garrison Villard (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1941; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974), pp. 15, 13.

  “showed remarkable tact…always perfect”: Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835–1900. Vol. I: 1835–1862 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1904; New York: Da Capo Press, 1969), pp. 142, 143.

  Lincoln’s penchant for telling stories: New York Daily News, reprinted in Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, Ohio, November 20, 1860.

  “helped many times…disappointments”: Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 147.

  “he is the very…general disposition”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, pp. 39–40.

  John Hay: William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay, Vol. I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), pp. 19, 48–49, 52–53, 68–69, 74, 82, 87; Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 141.

  For Mary…exciting time: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 165.

  “Is that the old woman”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, p. 20.

  he asked Hannibal Hamlin…to meet him in Chicago: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, November 8, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 136.

  he invited his old friend: AL to Joshua F. Speed, November 19, 1860, in ibid., p. 141.

  “was so full of good humor…with laughter”: Charles Eugene Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin. Vol. II. American History and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series (Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1899; Port Washington, N.Y., and London: Kennikat Press, 1971), p. 367.

  biographical information on Hamlin: See William A. Robinson, “Hamlin, Hannibal,” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IV, ed. Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (New York
: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931; 1960), pp. 196–99; H. Draper Hunt, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln’s First Vice-President (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1969).

  two men began…of both Adams and Welles: Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. II, pp. 368–70 (quotes p. 368).

  “threw himself…can afford to take”: Joshua F. Speed interview, [1865–1866], in HI, p. 475.

  Mary had a splendid time: NYH, November 23 and 24, 1860.

  “an intensified crossword…to harmonize”: Helen Nicolay, “Lincoln’s Cabinet,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 5 (March 1949), p. 258.

  “in view of…influence”: JGN memorandum, December 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  Seward never questioned: Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues, p. 12.

  “Of course… any other person”: Charles Francis Adams to WHS, November 11, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

  “You will be offered…in the Presidency”: Simon Cameron to WHS, November 13, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

  The Whig Party had provided: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 79.

  Thurlow Weed invited Lincoln…Lincoln wisely declined: Entry of December 3, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 388–89; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 93–94.

  “if obnoxious men…otherwise have”: JGN to [TB?], November 16, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  he directed Hamlin…Lincoln’s instructions: Hannibal Hamlin to AL, December 4, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  In reply to Hamlin…“at once”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, December 8, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 147.

  Hamlin caught up…contained the formal invitation: Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. II, p. 372 (quote); “Alphabetical List of Senators and Representatives, with Their Residences in Washington,” in William H. Boyd, Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory (Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Maury, 1860), p. 230.

  “trembled…nervous”: Entry for December 3, 1865, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 389.

  “With your permission…fit to be made”: AL to WHS, December 8, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 148.

  “pale with excitement…practicable moment”: Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. II, pp. 372–73.

  “a little time…under existing circumstances”: WHS to AL, December 13, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  Bates in Springfield: Entry for December 15, 1860, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 301; Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General, p. 122.

  he encountered John Nicolay…“genial and easy”: JGN memorandum, December 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  Bates walked over…the afternoon together: Entry for December 16, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 164 (quote); JGN memorandum, December 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  “from the time…its complete success”: Entry for December 16, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 164.

  “should offer…the Attorney Generalship”: JGN memorandum, December 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  “peace and order”…under President Fillmore: Entry for December 16, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 165.

  “everybody expects…family to ridicule”: Entry for October 13, 1860, in ibid., p. 153.

  “in trouble and danger…of his country”: JGN memorandum, December 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  “a good effect…border slave States”: EB to AL, December 18, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  “Let a little…which Department”: AL to EB, December 18, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 154.

  “we all feel…way in our power”: Leonard Swett to TW, November 26, 1860, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 301.

  “Mr. Lincoln…his administration”: Swett to TW, December 10, 1860, reprinted in ibid., pp. 301–02.

  “present unsettled…a few days ago”: WHS to AL, December 16, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  Weed arrived in Springfield: Entry for December 20, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 302.

  uncovered…“the rising sun!”: Newspaper clipping, Rochester, N.Y., Weed Papers.

  “took to each other…of a nation”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 294–95.

  conversation between Weed and Lincoln: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 606–11; Swett, quoted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 293–94; see also Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1878.

  “made strong opposition”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 294.

  “more than any one…to Mr. Seward”: GW to Isaac N. Arnold, November 27, 1872, folder 1, Isaac Newton Arnold Papers, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Ill.

  Far better than Welles: Entry for December 27, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76; NYTrib, June 25, 1877.

  disingenuously claimed…“unfit personally”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 294.

  Hamlin preferred: Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, Vol. II, p. 375.

  Lincoln claimed…“and not theirs”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 82.

  “an attractive figure-head…secretary of the navy”: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, p. 611.

  “Has he been…Blair, Sr.?”: Ibid., p. 607.

  regret his selection…“he would appoint him”: Swett to TW, reprinted in Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 294.

  “You seem to forget…and ballasted”: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, p. 610.

  “capable in the…for himself”: TW in Albany Evening Journal, quoted in Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 261.

  “In one aspect…in the other”: TW to WHS, December 25, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

  he had imagined…“for him but acceptance”: Entry for December 27, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.

  “after due reflection…to accept”: WHS to AL, December 28, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  “I have advised…freedom and my country”: WHS to FAS, December 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 487.

  “In these troublous…here at once”: AL to SPC, December 31, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 168.

  “they should be placed…been your friends”: Swett to AL, May 20, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

  “from very strong and unexpected quarters”: AL to Hannibal Hamlin, November 27, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 145.

  Cameron to Springfield: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, p. 25.

  “The unexpected arrival”…unsavory reputation: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, pp. 45–46 (quotes p. 45).

  reached the Chenery House: Entry for December 30, 1860, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 304.

  “Shall I have the honor…to call here?”: Simon Cameron to AL, December 30, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  conversation between Lincoln and Cameron: Carman and Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 25–26.

  “an exuberant school boy”: Erwin Stanley Bradley, Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Secretary of War: A Political Biography (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), p. 168.

  “There is an odor…such an appointment”: Lyman Trumbull to AL, December 31, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

  “Since seeing you…tendered you”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 3, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 169–70.

  “travel-stained…from Columbus”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 222 (quote); entry for January 4, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 3.

  meeting between Lincoln and Chase…“offer it to you”: Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 201.

  “I frankly said…could give”: SPC to George Opdyke, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.

  “without hesitation…the advice of friends”: SPC to George Opdyke, January 9, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.

  Chase attended Sunday church: Entry for January 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809–1865. Vol. III: 1861–1865, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), p. 4. r />
  Lincoln meets with Koerner and Judd: Entry for January 6, 1861, ibid., pp. 3–4.

  “I am in a quandary…at the convention”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 114.

  “It seems to me…brought to co-operate”: AL to Lyman Trumbull, January 7, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 171.

  “under great anxiety…I consistently can”: AL to Simon Cameron, January 13, 1861, in ibid., p. 174.

  “were entirely free & unreserved”: SPC to James S. Pike, January 10, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.

  “What is done…to Springfield”: SPC to Hiram Barney, January 8, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.

  had convinced Lincoln…official offers: Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 220.

  “I think that in allowing…and accept it”: SPC to Elizabeth Ellicott Pike, January 27, 1861, reel 14, Chase Papers.

  “a snowballing process”: Elbert B. Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975), p. 138.

  “desired by all…of the multitude”: Charleston Courier, quoted in Richmond Enquirer, November 16, 1860.

  the election of a…the John Brown raid: Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan, pp. 129–32.

  The bachelor president…“let out from school”: Sara Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War, rev. and enlarged edn. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904; New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905; 1908), pp. 110–11 (quotes p. 111).

  “looked stunned…of his chair”: Entry for December 20, 1860, in E. B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), p. 13.

  “both the authority…integrity”: [JGN to TB?], November 15, 1860, container 2, Nicolay Papers.

  “indefatigable…authorities, etc.”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of ’61, p. 37.

  willing to reduce…“a period of years”: AL, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 161.

  “a position towards…for his election”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 105.

  He was determined to stand…impact on the South: Donald, Lincoln, p. 260.

  “I could say nothing…clamor all the louder”: AL to Nathaniel P. Paschall, November 16, 1860, in CW, IV, pp. 139–40.

  “each and all of the States…any administration”: AL, “Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull’s Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” November 20, 1860, in ibid., p. 141.