Free Lincoln in the World by Kevin Peraino

White,
A. Lincoln
, p. 383.
    102 . Tyrner-Tyrnauer,
Lincoln and the Emperors
, p. 105 (“crude”); Green,
Washington
, v. 1, p. 238 (key ministries, “mud,” “fields”).
    103 . [Hay],
New York World
, Mar. 4, 1861, in Burlingame, ed.,
Lincoln’s Journalist
, pp. 48–50.
    104 .
Baltimore Sun
, Mar. 7, 1861 (“national debt”); Nevins,
War for the Union
, v. 2, p. 196 (“temperance man”); Lutz,
Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1915
, pp. 210–11 (“make blunders”). See also
The Lincoln Log
, entry for Mar. 1, 1861.
    105 . Bigelow,
Retrospections
, v. 1, p. 367; Lincoln to Gideon Welles, May 14, 1861,
CWL
, v. 4, p. 370 (navy); Donald,
Lincoln
, p. 346 (finance). See also Boritt,
Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream
, p. 199.
    106 .
RW
, p. 392 (“studying up”); Carroll, “Abraham Lincoln and the Minister of France,” p. 145; Fanny Seward Diary, entry for Dec. 25, 1861, Seward Papers, University of Rochester.
    107 . Stoeckl dispatch no. 11, Feb. 26, 1861; and Stoeckl dispatch no. 15, Mar. 12, 1861. Both in Russian Foreign Ministry Archives, photostatic copies in LOC. The final quote is inGraebner, “Northern Diplomacy and European Neutrality,” p. 61.
    108 . White,
A. Lincoln
, p. 387 (Seward’s motivation); Green,
Washing
ton, v. 1, p. 239 (inaugural morning); Nicolay and Hay,
Abraham Lincoln: A History
, v. 3, pp. 324, 371 (sharpshooters and “first trick”); Foote,
Civil War
, loc. 782 (Blood Tubs); Lincoln to Seward, Mar. 4, 1861, in
CWL
, v. 4, p. 273 (“countermand”).
    109 . Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” p. 45; Benjamin H. Hill quoted in Hubbard,
Burden of Confederate Diplomacy
(Knoxville, 1998), p. 25; Mercier to Thouvenel, Mar. 7, 1861, quoted in Carroll, “Abraham Lincoln and the Minister of France,” pp. 145–46; Thomas W. Evans to James Lesley Jr., Mar. 1, 1861, Seward Papers, University of Rochester (“amicable”).
    110 . White,
A. Lincoln
, p. 387 (“long and confidential”);
New York Times
, Mar. 5, 1861, cited in Randall,
Mary Lincoln
, pp. 209–10 (“Hail Columbia”); Barton,
Life of Abraham Lincoln
, p. 17 (quadrille and “ill at ease”);
New York Herald
, Mar. 6, 1861, cited in
ALAL
, v. 2, p. 62 (“queens of the earth”); Adams,
Education of Henry Adams
, p. 107 (“not be enough”); Bigelow to William Hargreaves, July 27, 1861, in Clapp,
Forgotten First Citizen
, p. 147; Rev. Benjamin E. Millard reminiscence, in
New York Times
, Mar. 15, 1885.
    111 . Foner,
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free
Men, p. 123.
    112 . Raymond,
Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln
, p. 720 (“burning the other”) in RW, p. 375; Lincoln quoted in Peterson,
Lincoln in American Memory
, p. 101 (“pigs for the tits”); Seward to his family, Mar. 16, 1861, in Seward,
Seward at Washington
,
1846–1861
, p. 530 (“closets”); Viele, “A Trip with Lincoln, Chase and Stanton,” p. 818, in RW, p. 453 (can’t say no).
    113 . Rice, ed.,
Reminiscences
, pp. 239–40 (“your man”); O’Toole,
Five of Hearts
, p. 341 (“light duties”); Melville to his wife, Mar. 24–25, 1861, in Davis and Gilman, eds.,
Letters of Herman Melville
, pp. 209–10 (“full band” etc); Parker,
Herman Melville
, v. 2, pp. 460–64 (failed to win plum).
    114 . Lincoln to Seward, Mar. 18, 1861,
CWL
, v. 4, pp. 292–93; Koerner to Lincoln, Mar. 28, 1861, ALP, LOC. I have inserted the two dashes in the Koerner quote for readability. See also
ALAL
, v. 2, pp. 91–92; Schurz,
Reminiscences
, v. 2, pp. 221, 223;
New York Herald
, Mar. 19, 1861, quoted in Donner, “Carl Schurz as Office Seeker,” p. 129; Schurz to his wife, Mar. 28, 1861, in Schafer, ed.,
Intimate Letters
, p. 253; Brauer, “Appointment of Carl Schurz,” p. 77. An exhibit in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., makes the point that foreign policy is uniquely important for American presidents because of the diverse composition of its citizenry.
    115 . For Mary