Team of Rivals (126 page)

Ithamar Chase’s fatal stroke: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 8.

“He lingered…our home”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

“almost to suffering”: SPC to Trowbridge, February 1, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

“ever lamented and deceased father”: Janette Ralston Chase to SPC, August 14, 1824, [filed as 1824–1825 correspondence], reel 4, Chase Papers.

Salmon sent to Philander Chase: SPC to Trowbridge, January 21 and 31, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Arthur Meier Schlesinger, “Salmon Portland Chase: Undergraduate and Pedagogue,”
Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly
[hereafter
OAHQ
] 28 (April 1919), pp. 120–21.

Salmon’s journey to Worthington: SPC to Trowbridge, January 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 9–11.

“was not passive…quite tyrannical”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 25, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

“My memories…wish I had not”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 27, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

Cincinnati College…“gave it to reading”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 31, 1864, typescript copy, reel 31, Chase Papers.

his “life might have been…more fun!”: Warden,
Private Life and Public Services,
p. 94.

first teaching position…dismissed: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 17.

At Dartmouth: Ibid., pp. 18–19; Frederick J. Blue,
Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics
(Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1987), pp. 6–7.

two lifelong friendships: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 97.

“Especially do I…have been wasted”: SPC to Thomas Sparhawk, July 8, 1827, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“the author is doubtless…vilest purposes”: Entry for September 22, 1829, SPC diary, reel 40, Chase Papers. The editors of the published edition of the Salmon P. Chase Papers identify the author of the novel as Edward Bulwer-Lytton. See note 65 for entry of September 22, 1829,
The Salmon P. Chase Papers.
Vol. I:
Journals, 1829–1872,
ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1993), p. 24 [hereafter
Chase Papers,
Vol. I].

established a successful school: SPC to Trowbridge, February 10, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Schlesinger, “Salmon Portland Chase,”
OAHQ
(1919), pp. 132–33, 143.

distinct classes of society…“utter contempt”: SPC to Hamilton Smith, May 31, 1827, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“I have always thought…to achieve”: SPC to Hamilton Smith, April 7, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“saw the novelty…poor and young”: Appleby,
Inheriting the Revolution,
p. 7.

wrote to an older brother in 1825 for advice: Alexander R. Chase to SPC, November 4, 1825, reel 4, Chase Papers.

Attorney General William Wirt: Warden,
Private Life and Public Services,
pp. 124–25, 175; Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law,” pp. 245, 276. See also Michael L. Oberg, “Wirt, William,”
American National Biography,
Vol. XXIII, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 675–76.

Wirt welcomed: Entries of January 10, 29, 30, 1829; February 9, 1829; April 8, 20, 1829;
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, pp. 5–9, 13–14; Schuckers,
The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase,
p. 29.

to read and study…his students: SPC to Trowbridge, February 13, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

“many happy hours…the stars”: SPC to Trowbridge, February 10, 1864, in
The Salmon P. Chase Papers.
Vol. IV:
Correspondence, April 1863–1864,
ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1997), p. 283.

the social gulf…discouraged: Elizabeth Goldsborough to Robert Warden, quoted in Warden,
Private Life and Public Services,
p. 126; Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 23, 40.

“thousands…universal scholar”: Alexander R. Chase to SPC, November 4, 1825, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“Day and night…my labours”: Entry for March 1, 1830,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, p. 45.

“knowledge may yet…be mine”: Entry for January 13, 1829, ibid., p. 6.

“You
will be…in that walk”: William Wirt to SPC, May 4, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“God [prospering]…your example”: SPC to William Wirt, June 16, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.

self-designed course of preparation: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 23, 26.

“his voice deep…of my toils”: Entry for February 14, 1829, diary, reel 1, Papers of Salmon P. Chase, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Chase Papers, DLC].

“I feel humbled…of well-doing”: Entry for December 31, 1829, diary, reel 1, Chase Papers, LC.

Chase before the bar, 1829: William Cranch, quoted in Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 27.

“study another year”…sworn in at the bar: SPC, “Admission to the Bar,” June 30, 1853, reel 32, Chase Papers, DLC.

“I would rather…wherever I may be”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.

Cincinnati in 1830: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 13–16.

“was covered by the primeval forest”: SPC, “On the Dedication of a New State House, January 6, 1857,” reel 41, Chase Papers.

“a stranger and an adventurer”: Entry for September 1, 1830,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, p. 53.

shyness, speech defect: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 31.

“I wish I was…provide the remedy”: William Wirt to SPC, May 4, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“awkward,
fishy
…little inconvenience”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.

“I made this resolution…excel in all things”: Entry for April 29, 1831,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, p. 57.

“I was fully…a ‘crown of glory’”: Entry for March 1, 1830, ibid., p. 45.

founded a popular lecture series…berated himself: Entry for February 8, 1834, diary, reel 40, Chase Papers; Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 32, 34–38; Mary Merwin Phelps,
Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter: The Life Story of a Brilliant Woman and Her Famous Father
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1935), pp. 12, 35.

“I confess…terminate in this life”: Abigail Chase Colby to SPC, April 21, 1832, reel 4, Chase Papers.

death of Catherine Garniss Chase: Entries for November 21 and December 1, 1835,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, pp. 87, 92–93.

“so overwhelming…has been severed”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, April 6, 1836, reel 5, Chase Papers.

“Oh how I accused…tempted me away”: Entry for December 25, 1835,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, p. 94.

“that death was within…left but clay”: Entry for December 1, 1835, ibid., pp. 93–94.

“the dreadful calamity…care for her”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, April 6, 1836, reel 5, Chase Papers.

doctors had bled her so profusely: Entry for December 26, 1835,
Chase Papers,
Vol. I, p. 96.

he delved into textbooks: Entry for December 28, 1835, ibid., p. 99.

“Oh if I had not…now she is gone”: Entry for December 27, 1835, ibid., pp. 97–98.

“the bar of God…an accusing spirit”: Entry for December 28, 1835, ibid., p. 99.

a “second conversion”: Stephen E. Maizlish, “Salmon P. Chase: The Roots of Ambition and the Origins of Reform,”
Journal of the Early Republic
18 (Spring 1998), p. 62.

death of daughter Catherine: Blue,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 35; Warden,
Private Life and Public Services,
p. 286; Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 72.

“one of the…desolation of my heart”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 7, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.

marriage to Eliza; birth of Kate: Blue,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 25–26; Warden,
Private Life and Public Services,
pp. 290–91, 295, 296, 301, 302.

“I feel as if…we are desolate”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, October 1, 1845, reel 6, Chase Papers.

Marriage to Belle; death of wife and daughter: Blue,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 74; Warden,
Private Life and Public Services,
pp. 311–12.

“What a vale…I rise & press on”: SPC to CS, January 28, 1850, reel 8, Chase Papers (quote); Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 135.

“to go West and grow up with the country”: William F. Switzler, “Lincoln’s Attorney General: Edward Bates, One of Missouri’s Greatest Citizens—His Career as a Lawyer, Farmer and Statesman,” reprinted in Onward Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri
(Chicago: P. F. Pettibone, 1914), p. 26.

His father, Thomas Fleming Bates: For general information on Bates’s family and early years, see Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 1–3, 5; “Bates, Edward,”
DAB,
Vol. I, p. 48; James M. McPherson, “Bates, Edward,”
American National Biography,
Vol. II, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 329; Introduction,
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. xi; Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 22; “Death of Edward Bates,”
Missouri Republican,
St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1869; Elie Weeks, “Belmont,”
Goochland County Historical Society Magazine
12 (1980), pp. 36–49; EB to C. I. Walker, February 10, 1859, reprinted in
Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan Together with Reports of County Pioneer Societies,
Vol. VIII, 2nd edn. (1886; Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1907), pp. 563–64.

“as distinctly…Western Europe”: Charles Gibson,
The Autobiography of Charles Gibson,
ed. E. R. Gibson, 1899, Charles Gibson Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Gibson Papers, MoSHi].

English manorial life…monetary wealth: James Truslow Adams,
America’s Tragedy
(New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934), pp. 87–88.

“enjoyable living…and their manners”: Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 20.

The flintlock musket…“helped to win”: Ibid., p. 22.

lured by the vast potential…Louisiana Purchase: Wiebe,
The Opening of American Society,
pp. 131–32.

Over the next three decades: James M. McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), p. 42.

“too young…a buffalo!”: “Lecture by Edward Bates,” St. Louis
Weekly Reveille,
February 24, 1845, St. Louis History Collection, MoSHi.

“After years of family…burned brightly in him”: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
p. 5.

passed his bar examination…the rest of their family there: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817; October 13, 1817; June 15, 1818; July 19, 1818; Bates Papers, MoSHi; Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
p. 7.

“The slaves sold…at $290!”: EB to Frederick Bates, September 21, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

expected to realize…“full-handed”: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

death of his brother Tarleton…“by the delay”: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
p. 6; EB to Frederick Bates, June 15, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi (quote).

“In those days…in the country”: Samuel T. Glover, “Addresses by the Members of the St. Louis Bar on the Death of Edward Bates,”
Minutes of the St. Louis Bar Association
(1869), Bates Papers, MoSHi.

“a lazy or squandering fellow”: EB to Frederick Bates, July 19, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

if accompanied only by his family: EB to Frederick Bates, September 29, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

“in a tenth part of the time…my embarrassment”: EB to Frederick Bates, June 15, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

“Mother & Sister…occasioned you”: EB to Frederick Bates, July 19, 1818, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

“friend and benefactor…wealth & influence”: EB to Frederick Bates, October 13, 1817, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

introduced him to the leading figures: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
p. 4.

a partnership with Joshua Barton: Ibid., p. 7.

“more in the way…his own name”: AL, “Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps,” [c. June 1860], in
CW,
IV, p. 61 [hereafter “Scripps autobiography”].

Thomas had watched: A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in
HI,
p. 95; Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 21.

“very narrow circumstances…without education”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in
CW,
IV, p. 61.

Nancy Hanks: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, and John Hanks interview, May 25, 1865, in
HI,
pp. 5, 37; Benjamin P. Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 6. On Nancy Hanks’s ancestry, see Paul H. Verduin, “New Evidence Suggest Lincoln’s Mother Born in Richmond County, Virginia, Giving Credibility to Planter-Grandfather Legend,”
Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine
XXXVIII (December 1988), pp. 4, 354–89.