Team of Rivals (129 page)

“What a romance…malicious political warfare”: Ibid., pp. 116, 128.

spent a long weekend visiting: Ibid., pp. 134–40.

When Judge Miller…“be so unreasonable”: FAS to LW, September 27, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers.

she proffered the letters: WHS to Albert Tracy, quoted in WHS to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

Seward’s first run for governor: Glyndon G. Van Deusen,
Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the Lobby
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1947), pp. 87–89; Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 35–36.

Whigs offered a gallery…Henry Clay himself: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 238. This same campaign tactic was adopted by the youthful John F. Kennedy in his campaign for the presidency in 1960.

Defeat shook…jeopardized his marriage: WHS to FAS, November 24 and 28, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers; Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 28, 33–34.

“What a demon…are not crushed”: WHS to FAS, November 28, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“I am growing womanish…happy a lot”: WHS to FAS, December 5, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“You reproach yourself…the right path”: FAS to WHS, December 5, 1834, reel 113, Seward Papers.

Seward pledged: WHS to FAS, December 15 and 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“to live for you…dear boys”: WHS to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“a partner in…cares and feelings”: WHS to FAS, December 1, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“count[ing] with eagerness…life will commence”: WHS to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

“golden dreams…displayed towards you”: Albert Tracy to WHS, December 29, 1834, reel 3, Seward Papers.

“alienation…but without affection”: WHS to Albert Tracy, quoted in Seward to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.

If Seward believed: WHS to TW, January 18, 1835, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 249; WHS to unknown recipient, June 1, 1836, in ibid., p. 300.

“It is seldom…periods of seclusion”: WHS to Alvah Hunt, January 25, 1843, quoted in Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 99.

“keep me informed…as a politician”: WHS to TW, January 1835, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 249.

family expedition to the South: Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 37; Seward,
Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat,
p. 9.

“When I travel…and reflection”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, June 23, 1831, Tracy Papers.

their letters home extolled: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 272–73; Seward,
Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat,
pp. 12–13.

“teemed with…reform of mankind”: Introduction to “The Conflict of Cultures,” in
The Causes of the Civil War,
3rd edn., ed. Kenneth M. Stampp (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959; New York: Touchstone Books, 1991), p. 201.

a world virtually unchanged: James M. McPherson, “Modernization and Sectionalism,” in ibid., p. 104.

“We no longer passed…of slaves”: Entry for June 12, 1835, WHS journal, quoted in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 267.

“a waste…decaying habitation”: Entry for June 12, 1835, WHS journal, in ibid., p. 267.

“How deeply…decayed as Virginia”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, June 25, 1835, Tracy Papers.

Slavery trapped…a sizable middle class: McPherson, “Modernization and Sectionalism,” in
The Causes of the Civil War,
ed. Stampp, pp. 104–05.

“We are told that…this injured race”: FAS to LW, quoted in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 272.

“turning the ponderous”…any of them again: Seward,
Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat,
pp. 14–15.

“Ten naked little boys…themselves to sleep”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 271.

“Sick of slavery and the South”: Entry for June 13, 1835, FAS, “Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835,” reel 197, Seward Papers.

“the evil effects…marring everything”: Entry of June 17, 1835, FAS, “Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835,” reel 197, Seward Papers.

“turned their horses’…homeward”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 272.

indelible images…social conscience: Entry for June 15, 1835, WHS journal in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 268; FAS to LW, January 15, 1853, reel 119, Seward Papers; WHS, “Speech in Cleveland, Ohio on the Election of 1848,”
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. III, pp. 295–96.

a lucrative opportunity…Seward did not hesitate: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 38–39.

“more beautiful”…invited Weed’s seventeen-year-old daughter: WHS to Harriet Weed, September 8, 1836, Thurlow Weed Papers, Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Rochester Library, Rochester, N.Y. [hereafter Weed Papers].

“there are a thousand…upon them”: WHS to FAS, December 21, 1836, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 321.

“so vividly remembered…a rare event”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 162.

death of Cornelia from smallpox: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 323.

“did not think it…from their Grandpa”: FAS to Harriet Weed, February 9, 1837, Weed Papers.

“lightness that was…for myself”: WHS to FAS, February 12, 1837, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 325.

Frances and the boys come to Westfield: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 334–35.

“Well, I am here…from Tusculum”: WHS to TW, July 10, 1837, in ibid., p. 336.

“found Westfield…missed and loved her”: FAS to Harriet Weed, September 6, 1837, Weed Papers.

“I am almost in despair…almost as helpless”: WHS to [FAS], December 17, 1837, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 354.

“There is such…time to think”: WHS to [TW], undated, in ibid., p. 344.

“I have been two…healthful channels”: TW to WHS, November 11, 1837, quoted in Van Deusen,
Thurlow Weed,
p. 95.

Weed raised money…powerful
New York Tribune: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed,
ed. Weed, pp. 466–67; Seward,
Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat,
pp. 45, 88.

1838 gubernatorial campaign: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
pp. 49–52.

received the nomination on the fourth ballot: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 373; Van Deusen,
Thurlow Weed,
p. 100.

“Well, Seward…earnestly to work”: TW to WHS, September 15, 1838, reel 5, Seward Papers.

the overwhelming victor: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 378.

“God bless…result to him”: WHS, quoted in J. C. Derby,
Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers
(New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1884), p. 58.

“It is a fearful post…a house alone”: WHS to TW, November 11, 1838, hereafter Weed Papers.

Weed arrived…inaugural outfit: WHS to TW, November 28, 1838, Weed Papers; Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 381–82 (quote p. 382); Van Deusen,
Thurlow Weed,
p. 102.

“it was [his]…a cabinet”: WHS to Hiram Ketchum, February 15, 1839, reel 8, Seward Papers.

“Your letter…as it comes up”: WHS to [TW], November 23, 1837, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 345.

“I had no idea…amiable creatures”: WHS to TW, December 14, 1838, in ibid., p. 381.

“There were never two…highest sense”: Barnes,
Memoir of Thurlow Weed,
p. 262.

told the story of a carriage ride: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 395.

an ambitious agenda…imprisonment for debt: WHS, “Annual Message to the Legislature, January 1, 1839,”
The Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. II, pp. 183–211; Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 386–87.

“Our race is ordained”…the engine of Northern expansion: WHS, “Annual Message, 1839,”
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. II, pp. 197–99.

to support parochial schools: Ibid., p. 199; WHS, “Annual Message to the Legislature, January 7, 1840,” p. 215.

“to overthrow republican”…the hands of priests: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 462.

“Virginia Case”…governor refused: WHS, “Biographical Memoir of William H. Seward,”
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. I, pp. lxiii–lxvi.

“the universal sentiment…praiseworthy”: George E. Baker, ed.,
Life of William H. Seward, with Selections from His Works
(New York: J. S. Redfield, 1855), p. 85.

“intermeddling…New England fanatic”: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 463, 464.

This only emboldened Seward’s resolve: Ibid., pp. 463–64, 510–11.

the “new irritation”: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820, in
The Works of Thomas Jefferson,
Vol. XII, ed. Ford, p. 158.

number of slaves who escaped to the North: Don E. Fehrenbacher, “The Wilmot Proviso and the Mid-Century Crisis,” in Fehrenbacher,
The South and Three Sectional Crises
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), p. 33.

“all actions…Constitution”: William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease, ed.
The Antislavery Argument
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965), p. xxx.

“The Empire of Satan”
: Henry Mayer,
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), p. 188.

They proclaimed slavery a “positive good”: John C. Calhoun,
Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina, on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 1837,
reprinted in Robert C. Byrd,
The Senate, 1789–1989.
Vol. III:
Classic Speeches, 1830–1993,
Bicentennial Edition, ed. Wendy Wolff (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994), p. 177.

incited attacks on abolitionist printers: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 47–48.

Seward reelected but with a reduced margin: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 506.

“henceforth be…in his life”: Horace Greeley article,
Log Cabin,
in ibid., p. 510.

“All that can…in its history”: WHS to Christopher Morgan, [June?] 1841, in ibid., p. 547.

“What am I…on your affection?”: WHS to TW, December 31, 1842, quoted in Barnes,
Memoir of Thurlow Weed,
p. 98.

the new Liberty Party: “Liberty Party,” in
The Reader’s Companion to American History,
ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 657; Taylor,
William Henry Seward,
p. 59.

story of black man named William Freeman: Baker, ed.,
Life of William H. Seward,
pp. 99–113; “Defence of William Freeman,”
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. I, pp. 409–75.

“I trust in the mercy…incomprehensible”: FAS to WHS, March 1846, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 787, 786.

insanity…floggings in jail: Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 812.

“Will anyone defend…
until his death
!”: Baker, ed.,
Life of William H. Seward,
pp. 104, 106.

roundly criticized Seward for his decision: WHS to TW, May 29, 1846, quoted in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 810.

Only Frances stood proudly: Van Deusen,
William Henry Seward,
p. 97.

“he will do…wrong is perpetrated”: FAS to LW, July 1, 1846, reel 119, Seward Papers.

“there are few men…a peaceful mind”: FAS to Augustus Seward, July 19, 1846, reel 114, Seward Papers.

she sat in the courtroom: FAS to LW, January–February 1850, reel 119, Seward Papers.

summoning five doctors: Seward,
An Autobiography,
pp. 811, 813.

“He is still your brother…be a man”: “Defence of William Freeman,”
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. I, p. 417.

“I am not…malefactor”: Ibid., pp. 414–15.

“unexplainable on any principle of
sanity”:
WHS to TW, May 29, 1846, in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 810.

“there is not…such a prosecution”: “Defence of William Freeman,”
Works of William H. Seward,
Vol. I, p. 419.

“In due time…‘He was Faithful!’”: WHS, quoted in Seward,
An Autobiography,
p. 822.

While Seward endured…still wider distribution: Seward,
Seward at Washington…1846–1861,
pp. 29, 32, 46.

“one of the very first…the highest degree”: SPC to Lewis Tappan, March 18, 1847, reel 6, Chase Papers.

Lincoln’s run for legislature from Sangamon County: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 28–29, 34–35.

“Every man…very much chagrined”: AL, “Communication to the People of Sangamo County,” March 9, 1832, in
CW,
I, pp. 8–9.

only after being defeated…“to try it again”: J. Rowan Herndon to WHH, May 28, 1865, in
HI,
p. 7.