A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History by Gary W.Gallagher & Rachel A. Shelden

Author:Gary W.Gallagher & Rachel A. Shelden [Gary W.Gallagher and Rachel A. Shelden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 . Notable recent Lincoln books include Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); George M. Fredrickson, Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Race and Slavery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008); William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007); Harold Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession, Winter 1860–1861 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008); James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (New York: Penguin, 2008); William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008); Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008); and Ronald C. White Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2009).

2 . The classic account, which still retains great value, is David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1942; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995). It is in the second camp along with Patrick Michael Sowle, “The Conciliatory Republicans during the Winter of Secession” (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1963); and Russell McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008). For the first, see Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, vol. 1, chap. 17; and Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect . A balanced treatment is Harris, Lincoln’s Rise .

3 . Roy P. Basler et al., eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 8 vols. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–55), 3:29, hereafter cited as CWL . The best biography of Clay is Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991).

4 . CWL, 2:121–32, quotations on 125, 126, 129; Lincoln to Daniel Ullman, February 1, 1861, ibid., 4:184.

5 . Ibid., 2:130–31 and 3:29, 89, 300–305.

6 . Robert Seager et al., eds., The Papers of Henry Clay, 10 vols. and supp. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1959–92), 10:658, 664. For Clay and the Compromise consult Remini, Clay, chap. 40.

7 . CWL, 2:232–33, 241–42, 270 (quotation), 272, 3:119–20.

8 . Ibid., 2:461. Still best on the 1850s is David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, completed by Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), which has considerable material on Seward.

9 . CWL, 4:142, on military preparation; Donn Piatt, Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union (New York and Chicago: Belford, Clarke, 1887), 30 (first quotation); Lincoln to Peter H. Silvester, December 22, 1860, CWL, 4:160 (second quotation); Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, comps. and eds., Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), 253 (third quotation), hereafter cited as Words .

10 . Hawkins Layton to John Allison, December 21, 1860, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress (hereafter LC) (first quotation); Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, December 17, 1860, to Elihu Washburne, December 13, 1860 (third quotation), to Thurlow Weed, December 17, 1860 (second quotation), CWL, 4:149–50, 151, 154; Words, 253; Duff Green to James Buchanan, December 28, 1860, James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Harold G.

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