Team of Rivals (128 page)

“You know my desire…to do any thing”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842, in
CW,
I, p. 269.

Some have suggested: C. A. Tripp,
The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln,
ed. Lewis Gannett (New York: Free Press, 2005), pp. 126–29.

sharing a bed: Rotundo,
American Manhood,
pp. 84–85; Strozier,
Lincoln’s Quest for Union,
p. 43.

The room above Speed’s store: Michael Burlingame, “A Respectful Dissent,” Afterword I, in Tripp,
The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 228.

attorneys of the Eighth Circuit…for a companion: Whitney,
Life on the Circuit with Lincoln,
pp. 63, 72.

the “preoccupation…the nineteenth”: Donald Yacovone, “Abolitionists and the ‘Language of Fraternal Love,’” in
Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America,
ed. Mark C. Carnes and Clyde Griffen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 94.

CHAPTER 3: THE LURE OF POLITICS

“Scarcely have you…as to an assembly”: Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America,
ed. and trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 232.

Noah Webster’s
Elementary Spelling Book:
Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law,” pp. 175–76.

“Who can wonder…hush before his”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Eloquence,” in
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and Solitude,
Vol. VI, Fireside Edition (Boston and New York: n.p., 1870; 1898), p. 65.

Bates was the first…“form of government”: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 8–9, 11 (quotes pp. 9, 11); Appleby,
Inheriting the Revolution,
p. 247.

“This momentous question…of the Union”: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson,
Vol. XII, Federal Edition, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1905), p. 158.

Missouri Compromise: “Missouri Compromise,” in
The Reader’s Companion to American History,
ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 737.

“Great Pacificator”
: Stephen Douglas, quoted by AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in
CW,
Il, p. 251.

“emerged as one”…candidates for state offices: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 14–15 (quote p. 14).

tensions developed between Senators Barton and Benton: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 19–22.

The Whigs favored public support: See Michael F. Holt,
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 27, 64, 66–70.

“a most beautiful woman”: John F. Darby, “Mrs. Julia Bates, Widow of the Late Ed. Bates, Esq. For the Republican,” reprinted in Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 31.

Julia’s South Carolina family: Ibid., pp. 31–32.

Her surviving letters: Julia Davenport Bates to Caroline Hatcher Bates, April 10, 1850; Julia Davenport Bates to Onward Bates, July 24, 1855, February 14, 1861, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

“was calculated…domestic circle”: Darby, “Mrs. Julia Bates,” reprinted in Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 31.

When he sought and won a seat: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 26–27.

“I have never…to have it again”: EB to Julia Bates, April 11, 1825, Bates Papers, ViHi.

Bates’s lonely journey to Washington: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.

“something of a melancholy…mood”: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.

“magic…feel it to be true”: EB to Julia Bates, November 7, 1827, Bates Papers, ViHi.

life in Washington: EB to Julia Bates, January 5 and 22, February 25, March 17, 1828, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.

“That man grows…associate with him”: EB to Julia Bates, February 25, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.

The main issues that confronted Bates: EB to Julia Bates, March 17, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi; Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 28–32.

Benton and Barton were antagonists: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 28–29.

Bates published a pamphlet: EB,
Edward Bates Against Thomas H. Benton
(St. Louis: Charless & Paschall, 1828).

“My piece is…never be effaced”: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.

“roaring disorder…magnificent appearance”: EB to Julia Bates, February 23, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.

“As yet I only…is in my eye”: EB to Julia Bates, January 5, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.

“O, that I could…my sunshine”: EB to Julia Bates, February 25, 1828, Bates Papers, ViHi.

he lost his bid for reelection: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.

got into a heated argument: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 38–39.

“The code preserved…are well spent”: Charles Gibson,
The Autobiography of Charles Gibson,
ed. E. R. Gibson, 1899, Gibson Papers, MoSHi.

“as much as any man…we possessed”: EB to Julia Bates, December 4, 1829, Bates Papers, ViHi.

two terms in the state legislature: “Bates, Edward,”
DAB,
Vol. I, p. 48.

“the ablest…of that body”: Switzler, “Lincoln’s Attorney General,” reprinted in Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 27.

he decided in 1835: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
pp. 53, 55, 58.

the “curious fact…of the frog”: Bates diary, September 17, 1847.

“bad stammerer…more devoted piety”: Bates diary, December 15, 1849.

“Mistress & Queen”: Bates diary, July 10, 1851.

“begrudge her the short respite”: Bates diary, April 23, 1848.

“This day…in a large house”: Bates diary, November 15, 1851.

Every year, on April 29: See, for example, entry for April 29, 1859, in
The Diary of Edward Bates,
1859–1866, p. 13.

“mighty changes…of the continent”: Entry for April 29, 1859, in ibid.

His entries proudly record: Bates diary, November 7, 1847; December 20, 1847; December 9, 1852.

a great fire…cholera epidemic: Bates diary, May 18; June 14–28; July 1–11, 1849.

“in perfect health”…fruits and vegetables: Bates diary, July 19, 1849.

medical ignorance…“two weeks at a time”: Bates diary, June 21, 1849.

“I am one…of a known duty”: EB to R. B. Frayser, June 1849, Bates Papers, MoSHi.

Bates filled the pages of his diary: Bates diary, May 21, 1847; May 22, 1847; November 22, 1847; December 10, 1847; March 13, 1848; May 6, 1848; March 11, 1849; March 29, 1851 (quote).

“the largest Convention…the Civil War”: Floyd A. McNeil, “Lincoln’s Attorney General; Edward Bates,” Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1934, p. 155.

5,000 accredited delegates…David Dudley Field: Shaw, “A Neglected Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln,”
Transactions
(1922), p. 54; Albert J. Beveridge,
Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858,
Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1928), pp. 89–90.

“Hon. Abraham…in the State”:
NYTrib,
July 14, 1847.

“No one who saw…with woolen socks”: E. B. Washburne, “Political Life in Illinois,” in
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,
ed. Rice, p. 92.

“deep astonishment”…responsibility for its failure: Bates diary, July 5, 1847.

“leaped at one bound…prominence”: Switzler, “Lincoln’s Attorney General,” reprinted in Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 28.

Lincoln impressed…Democrat Field:
Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1859,
Vol. II, p. 91.

“too intent…of Reporting”:
Albany Evening Journal,
July 23, 1847.

“No account…do it justice”:
NYTrib,
July 15, 1847.

“between sectional disruption…material greatness”: Cain,
Lincoln’s Attorney General,
p. 63.

“he was interrupted…in attendance”: TW, quoted in Bates,
Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri,
p. 30.

“the crowning act…either house of Congress”: Bates diary, July 5, 1847.

“The nation cannot…and patriotism”:
Albany Evening Journal,
July 23, 1847.

“the glittering bauble”: Entry for February 28, 1860,
The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866,
p. 106.

“noble aspirations…natural result”: EB to TW, August 9, 1847, reprinted in
Albany Evening Journal,
January 11, 1861.

“had no ambition…business of the country”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 52, 53.

Seward and Weed meet: See ibid., pp. 55–56; Thurlow Weed,
Autobiography of Thurlow Weed,
ed. Harriet A. Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883), p. 139.

“he printed…his own hand”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 56.

details of Weed’s early life:
Autobiography of Thurlow Weed,
ed. Weed; Thurlow Weed Barnes,
Memoir of Thurlow Weed
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884).

He had walked miles:
Autobiography of Thurlow Weed,
ed. Weed, pp. 12–13.

“a politician who sees…him forever”: Barnes,
Memoir of Thurlow Weed,
pp. 26–27.

Such measures…“extend its dominion”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 54.

the
Albany Evening Journal: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed,
ed. Weed, pp. 360–62.

Weed engineered…from the seventh district: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 80.

the youngest member to enter: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 24.

Albany still a small town: John J. McEneny,
Albany: Capital City on the Hudson
(Sun Valley, Calif.: American Historical Press, 1998), p. 76.

description of Albany: “Albany Fifty Years Ago,”
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
14 (March 1857), pp. 451–63.

“first steam-powered…web of tracks”: McEneny,
Albany,
pp. 16 (quote), 98.

The legislature…Bemont’s Hotel: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 80–81; Frederick W. Seward,
Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830–1915
(New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916), p. 2; Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 24.

Seward attends alone: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 80.

“Weed is…warmth of feeling”: WHS to FAS, January 12, 1831, in ibid., p. 166.

“one of the greatest…except politics”: WHS to FAS, February 6, 1831, in ibid., pp. 179–80.

Weed and Seward’s mutual interests: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 17; Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 25.

“My room is a thoroughfare”: WHS to FAS, February 16, 1831, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 182.

Albert Haller Tracy: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 17; “Tracy, Albert Haller, 1793–1859,”
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
http://bioguide.congress.gov (accessed December 2003).

“crushed…passes in his mind”: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

“He and Henry…love with each other”: FAS to LW, March 4, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

“It shames my…since I left Albany”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, February 7, 1831, reel 1, Seward Papers.

Seward at first reciprocated: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

a “rapturous joy…I possessed”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, February 11, 1831, typescript copy, Albert Haller Tracy Papers, New York State Library, Albany, New York [hereafter Tracy Papers].

“My feelings…divided with many”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, June 12, 1832, reel 1, Seward Papers.

“Weed has never…account for it”: FAS to LW, March [?] 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers (quote); FAS to LW, April 5, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

“Love—cruel tyrant…hallowed affections”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, September 24, 1832, reel 1, Seward Papers.

He transferred his unrequited love: FAS to LW, March [?] and September 27, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers; WHS to FAS, November 28, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“losing my influence…differently constituted”: FAS to WHS, December 5, 1834, reel 113, Seward Papers.

relationship between Tracys and Sewards: FAS to LW, March 12, 24, and undated March, April 9, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

“He is a singular…shade of difference”: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

“I believe at present…should choose”: FAS to LW, March [?] 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.

“very glad…very much”: FAS to LW, November 17, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers.

private emotional intimacy: See Karen Lystra,
Searching the Heart: Women, Men and Romantic Love in Victorian America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 31–33.

a three-month voyage to Europe: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 104–41.