Letter from Salmon Portland Chase to James Shepard Pike, May 12, 1858
written by Salmon Portland Chase, 1808-1873 (1858); in First Blows of the Civil War: the Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States. From 1850 to 1860. A Contemporaneous Exposition. Progress of the Struggle Shown by Public Records and Private Correspondence. With Letters, Now First Published (New York, NY: American News Company, 1879), 63-65