“I must confess” New York Evening Post, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, 122.
“When a man hears” “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, CW, 3:13.
reported two different debates Harold Hölzer tells the story of these two texts in The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
“Everybody here” David Davis to AL, August 25, 1858, ALPLC.
“We were well satisfied” Richard Yates to AL, August 26, 1858, ALPLC.
“Douglas and I” AL to Joseph O. Cunningham, August 22, 1858, CW, 3:37.
advisers were not so pleased Holzer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 89; David Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 56.
“Don’t act” Norman B. Judd (WHH interview), October 2, 1890, HI, 723.
attire of the debaters The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, ed. Edwin E. Sparks (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1908), 207.
“I shall be exceedingly glad” “Second Debate at Freeport, Illinois,” August 27, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 48.
“Q.2. Can the people” Ibid., 50.
“It is most extraordinary” Ibid., 51.
“It matters not” Ibid., 58.
“thinkthat Fred. Douglass” Ibid., 62.
“the popular sympathy” Joseph Medill to John A. Gurley, August 28, 1858, cited in Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery, 58.
“the contest going on” Frederick Douglass, “Freedom in the West Indies: Address Delivered in Poughkeepsie, NY,” August 2, 1858, Frederick Douglass, 3:233,236-37.
The debates were only A strength of Allen Guelzo’s book, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, is his attention to the many facets of the Lincoln-Douglas campaign beyond the debates.
“Little Egypt” For a description of the context of the debate in “Egypt,” see John Y Simon, “Union County in 1858 and the Lincoln-Douglas Debate,” JISHS 62 (Autumn 1969): 267-92.
“If the slaveholding” AL, “Third Debate at Jonesboro, Illinois,” September 15, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 115.
old-line Whig district Charles H. Coleman, Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois (New Brunswick, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 173—75.
“I was really in favor” AL, “Fourth Debate at Charleston, Illinois,” September 18, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 131.
“Race prejudice” Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 329.
“great apprehension” AL, “Fourth Debate,” September 18, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 132.
“Allow me to suggest” Norman B. Judd to AL, September? 1858, ALPLC.
“I am amazed” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 145.
the nineteen days A. H. Chapman to WHH, October 18, 1865, HI, 139.
“Suppose it is true” AL, “Fragment on Pro-slavery Lheology,” [October 1, 1858], CW, 3:204-5.
“But there is a larger issue” AL, “Fragment: Notes for Speeches,” [October 1, 1858], CW, 3:205.
“Well, at last” Holzer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 234—35.
“In the extreme northern” “Fifth Debate at Galesburg, Illinois,” October 7, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 181.
“I believe that the entire” Ibid., 220 25.
“When Douglas concluded” Quincy Whig, October 9, 1858.
“blowing out the moral lights” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 201.
labeled “Constitution” Allen Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, 241.
charm did not Carl Schurz, Abraham Lincoln: A Biographical Essay (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1907), 68-69.
“When Judge Douglas says” “Sixth Debate at Quincy, Illinois,” October 13, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 224—25.
“I tell you why” Ibid., 233.
“We are getting” Ibid., 242.
“of carrying the State” Gustave Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809—1896: Life-Sketches Written at the Suggestion of His Children, ed. Lhomas J. McCormack (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Lorch Press, 1909), 2:66—67.
“I hold that the signers” “Seventh Debate at Alton, Illinois,” October 15, 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 266.
“strongsympathies” Ibid., 269.
“fundamentalprinciple” Ibid., 273.
“That is the issue” Ibid., 284-85.
“I now have a high degree” AL to Norman Judd, October 20, 1858, CW, 3:329-30.
“Outside Republicans” King, Lincoln’s Manager, 125.
“thatyou are anxious” AL to John J. Crittenden, July 7, 1858, CW, 3:483-84.
“Ambition has been” AL, “Fragment, Last Speech of the Campaign at Springfield, Illinois,” October 30, 1858, CW, 3:334.
“Streetlights” Illinois State Journal, November 3, 1858.
“but I recovered” Nicolay and Hay, 9:377.
“the causes of our defeat” Joseph Fort Newton, Lincoln and Herndon (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Lorch Press, 1910), 234-35.
“unauthorized” John L. Crittenden to AL, October 27, 1858, ALPLC.
“was handed me” AL to John J. Crittenden, November 4, 1858, CW, 3:335-36.
“Mr. Lincoln is beaten” Chicago Press & Tribune, November 10, 1858.
“I am glad” AL to Anson G. Henry, November 19, 1858, CW, 3:339.
CHAPTER 14. The Taste Is in My Mouth, a Little: 1858-60
“What man now fills” Je riah Bonham, Fifiy Years’ Recolledions: With Observations and Refledions on Historical Events, Giving Sketches on Eminent Citizens—Their Lives and Public Services (Peoria, 111.: J. W. Franks and Sons, 1883), 528—30.
“An enthusiastic meeting” Allen T. Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York: North American Publishing Company, 1886), 441-42.
“present his [Lincoln’s] name” William Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1937), 51—58.
“Who is this man?” Statement of Jesse Fell, “Story of the Lincoln Biography,” Bloomington, Illinois, March 1872, in the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection.
in a two-hundred-page scrapbook AL to Charles H. Ray, November 20, 1858, CW, 3:341.
“There is some probability” AL to Henry C. Whitney, December 15, 1858, CW, 3:347.
“I have been on expenses” AL to Norman B. Judd, November 16, 1858, CW, 3:337.
“personally engaged” AL to Samuel C. Davis and Company, November 17, 1858, CW, 3:338.
“we have performed no service” AL to Joel A. Matteson, November 25, 1858.
“I wish you would return” AL to William M. Fishback, December 19, 1858, CW, 3:346.
“It annoys me” AL to Maria Bullock, January 3, 1859, CW, 3:348.
“In that day” AL to Norman B. Judd, November 15, 1858, CW, 3:36-337.
“I look upon” Wentworth is quoted in a letter from David Davis to AL, January 1, 1859 (misdated 1858), ALPLC.
“the Republican editors” Lhomas J. Pickett to AL, April 13, 1858, ALPLC.
“I must in candor” AL to Lhomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1858, CW, 3:377.
“All honor to Jefferson” AL to Henry L. Pierce and Others, April 6, 1859, CW, 3:374-76.
“The only danger” AL to Mark W. Delahay, May 14, 1859, CW, 3:378-79.
met in a convention Salmon P. Chase to AL, April 14, 1858, ALPLC.
“one of the veryfew” AL to Salmon P. Chase, April 30, 1859, CW, 3:378.
“I hope you can” AL to Salmon P. Chase, June 9, 1859, CW, 3:384.
“avowal of our great principles” Salmon P. Chase to AL, June 13, 1859, ALPLC.
“to enact a Fugitive Slave” AL to Salmon P. Chase, June 20, 1859, CW, 3:386.
“As I understand” AL to Lheodore Canisius, May 17, 1859, CW, 3:380.
“hedge against divisions” AL to Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859, CW, 3:390.
“We desire to head off” William L. Bascom to AL,
September 1, 1859, ALPLC.
“Douglasism” Chicago Press & Tribune, November 9, 1858; and Johannsen, Douglas, 682-86.
“there can be no peace” See Stephen A. Douglas, “The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority: Popular Sovereignty in the Territories,” Harper’s Magazine 14 (September 1859): 519—37.
“Now, what is Judge Douglas’“ AL, “Speech at Columbus, Ohio,” September 16, 1859, CW, 3:405.
“I am what they call” AL, “Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio,” September 17, 1859, CW, 3:440-41.
“Our fathers” AL, “Speech at Indianapolis, Indiana,” September 19, 1859, CW, 3:465-66.
requested the assistance “ALto George M. Parsons and Others,” December 19, 1859, CW, 3:510.
“will make the contest in 1860” Thomas Corwin to AL, September 25, 1859, ALPLC.
“What brought these Democrats with us!” In 2004, a member of the Corwin family of Ohio brought the supposedly lost letter to Daniel Weinberg, proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. I am grateful to Harold Hölzer, who writes about the import of the letter in the Preface to the paperback edition of Lincoln at Cooper Union (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006) xviii—xix
“Six months hence” Thomas Corwin to AL, October 17, 1859, ALPLC.
“Mr. Lincoln, the ‘giant’ ” Illinois State Journal, October 17, 1859.
Hon A. Lincoln James A. Briggs to AL, October 12, 1859, ALPLC.
eager to accept See Harold Hölzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004) for the address and its impact; Angle, “Here I Have Lived,” 231.
“painstaking and thorough” HL, 273--/’4.
“violation of law” AL, “Speech at Ellwood, Kansas,” December 1 [November 30?], 1859, CW, 3:496.
“the slavery question” Ibid., CW, 3:499, 502.
“Old John Brown,” AL, “Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas,” December 3,
1859, CW, 3:502.
Judd was secretly Norman B. Judd to AL, December 1, 1859, ALPLC.
“I would rather have” AL to Norman B. Judd, December 9, 1859, CW, 3:505.
“I find some of our friends” AL to Norman B. Judd, December 14, 1859, CW, 3:509.
Judd understood the importance Reinhard H. Lu thin, The First Lincoln Campaign (Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1944), 20-21.
“Herewith is a little” AL to Jesse W. Fell, “Enclosing Autobiography,” Dec. 20, 1859, CW, 3:511-12.
I was born Feb. 12,1809 Ibid.
wrote his own biography William E. Barton, President Lincoln (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933), 63-64.
“if his name” Jackson Grimshaw to WHH, April 28, 1866, HI, 247; and Lamon, Life, 424 (Lamon is incorrect about the year of the meeting).
“It is not improbable” Browning, Diary, February 8, 1860, 395.
“the nomination of Lincoln” Chicago Press & Tribune, February 16, 1860.
endorsement of Lincoln Philip Kinsley, The Chicago Tribune: Its First Hundred Years, vol. I, 1847-1865 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943), 105-7.
“No former effort” HL, 2:165.
SIGNIFICANT.—The Hon. Illinois State Register, February 23, 1860.
at the Cooper Union For the complete story of the Cooper Union Address, see Hölzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union.
“I am on my way” Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Narrative and Descriptive Biography (Chicago: Browne and Howell Company, 1913), 1:217.
“I see you want” Roy Meredith, Mr. Lincoln’s Camera Man, Mathew B. Brady (New York: Dover Publications, 1946), 59.
“a gallant soldier” Hölzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, 107.
The first impression Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed., Intimate Memories of Lincoln (Elmira, N.Y.: Primavera Press, 1945), 258.
“Mr. Cheerman” Hölzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, 114.
“Mr. Lincoln is one of Nature’s” New York Tribune, February 28, 1860.
“somewhat funny, to see” Mayson Brayman to William H. Bailhache, February 28, 1860, ALPLM, quoted in Hölzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union, 145.
“according to Bob’s orders” AL to Mary Lincoln, March 4, 1860, CW, 3:555.
“Enclosed please find” James A. Briggs to AL, February 29, 1860, ALPLC.
“I have been unable” AL to Mary Lincoln, March 4, 1860, CW, 3:555.
Welles, an ex-Democrat John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), 283, 288-89.
“I am glad to know” AL, “Speech at Hartford, Connecticut, March 5, 1860,” CJ^4:7.
“recent success had stimulated” HL, 2:275.
“there will be but little” Samuel Galloway to AL, March 15, 1860, ALPLC.
“My name is new” AL to Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860, CW, 4:33-34.
“I have heard your name” James F. Babcock to AL, April 9, 1860, ALPLC.
“As to the Presidential” AL to James F. Babcock, April 14, 1860, CW, 4:43.
“tobe putfully” AL to Lyman Lrumbull, April 29, 1860, CW, 4:45.
“I keep no secrets” Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982), 299.
“I am informed” Johnson to WHH, [1865-1866], HI, 463.
old John Hanks Ibid.
“prominent candidates” Harper’s Weekly, May 12, 1860.
receiving reports King, Lincoln’s Manager, 135—36.
“He was almost too much” Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, 294.
“We are here” Jesse K. Dubois to AL, May 13, 1860, ALPLC.
“Things are working” Nathan M. Knapp to AL, May 14, 1860.
“We are laboring” Nathan M. Knapp to Ozias M. Hatch, May 12, 1860, in “Praise for the ‘Most Available Candidate,’ “ JISHS 71, no. 1 (February 1978): 72.
“Dont come” Jesse K. Dubois and David Davis to AL, May 14, 1860, ALPLC.
“Don’tbe too sanguine” Charles H. Ray to AL, May 14, 1860, ALPLC.
“Make no contracts” “Endorsement on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat, “ [May 17, 1860], CW, 4:50.
“he hardly thought this” Clinton L. Conkling, “How Mr. Lincoln Received the News of His First Nomination,” Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society (1909):64-65.
Judd stood second Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions, 151-54.
“I-I a-a-rise” Charles H. Workman, “Tablet to Abraham Lincoln at Mansfield,” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications 34 (1925) 519—20.
“Well gentlemen there is” Charles S. Zane (statement for WHH), [1865—66], HI, 491.
CHAPTER 15. Justice and Fairness to All: May i860—November i860
“did not suppose” AL, “Response to a Serenade,” May 18, 1860, CW, 4:50.
“Write no letters” David Davis to AL, May 18, 1860, ALPLC.
“his modest frame house” Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (New York: The McClure Company, 1908), 2:188.
“Justice and fairness” AL, CW, 4:94.
“such intuitive knowledge” Life of Thurlow Weed: Including His Autobiography and a Memoir, vol. 1: Weed (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883), 602.
met with Edward Bates Browning, Diary, May 24, 1860, 410—11.
“Holding my self” AL to Salmon P. Chase, May 26, 1860, CW, 4:53.
“You distinguish between yourself” AL to Schuyler Colfax, May 26, 1860, CW, 4:54.
“We know not” AL to Anson G. Henry, July 4, 1860, CW, 4:82.
“I missed the greatest chance” William Dean Howe 11s, Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, 111.: The Abraham Lincoln Association, 1938), vii.
“I believe the biography” John L. Scripps to ALJuly 17, 1860, ALPLC.
“made frequent humorous” John L. Scripps to WHH, June 24, 1865, HI, 57.
became his one-man Helen Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay (New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1949), 6—7, 84.
“Lincoln bears his honors” Browning, Diary, June 12, 1860, 415.
“That looks better” Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln’s Photographs: A Complete Album (Dayton, Ohio: Rockywood Press, 1998), 46-48.
“I think there” AL to Thurlow Weed, August 17, 1860, CW, 4:98.
“I am slow” AL to John M. Pomeroy, August 31, 1860, CW, 4:103.
“amiable and accomplished” New York Tribune, May 25, 1860.
“a sparkling talker” Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, 160.
“Mr. Lincoln has never been” Mary Lincoln to Dyer Burgess, October 29, 1860, MTL, 67.
“You are an ambitious” “William M. Dickson to AL, with Note from Annie M. Dickson to Mary Todd Lincoln,” May 21, 1860, ALPLC.
“You used to be worried” Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, October 20, 1860, MTL, 63-64.
“warmly welcomed” Frank Fuller, A Day with the Lincoln Family (New York: n.d.).
“a man of unblemished” Douglass’ Monthly, June 1860.
“On Monday night” Illinois State Journal, August 8, 1860.
Westward the star Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), 185.
“The Prairies on Fire” Illinois State Journal, August 9, 1860.
“It has been my purpose” AL, “Remarks at a Springfield Rally, Springfield, Illinois,” August 8, 1860, CW, 4:91.
“slipped him over” George Brinkerhoff (WHH interview), [1865—1866], HI, 437.
“The reward that fidelity” Edward D. Baker to AL, August 1, 1860, ALPLOC.
“such a result” AL to Hannibal Hamlin, September 4, 1860, CW, 4:110.
“The people of the South” AL to John B. Fry, August 15, 1860, CW, 4:95.
a sense of relief WHL to AL, October 10, 1860, ALPLC.
“It now looks” AL to William H. Seward, October 12, 1860, CW, 4:126.
“a very happy man” Henry C. Bowen, “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Independent, April 4, 1895, 4.
CHAPTER 16. An Humble Instrument in the Hands of the Almighty. November 1860-February 1861
“Well, boys” Oates, With Malice Toward None, 195.
“I then felt” Lincoln spoke about this evening in 1862 with Gideon Welles; Welles, Diary, August 15, 1862, 1:82.
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