323. Chicago Democrat, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 13 Nov. 1858.
324. Lincoln to Crittenden, Springfield, 4 Nov. 1858, CWL, 3:335–336.
325. Speech at Cincinnati, 17 Sept. 1859, ibid., 3:452.
326. Lincoln to Anson G. Henry, Springfield, 19 Nov. 1858, ibid., 3:339.
327. Springfield correspondence, 7 Jan., Cincinnati Commercial, 12 Jan. 1859.
328. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), 244 (entry for 8 Nov. 1864).
329. Reminiscences of Bushrod E. Hoppin, typescript dated Apr. 1921, Lincoln Collection, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; Shelby M. Cullom, interviewed by Frank G. Carpenter, Washington Evening Star, [3 Nov.] 1895, clipping in scrapbook, Frank G. Carpenter Papers, DLC; Charles S. Zane, “Lincoln as I Knew Him,” Sunset Magazine 29 (Oct. 1912): 430–438, reprinted in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 14 (1921–1922):79–80.
330. Springfield correspondence, 26 Nov., New York Herald, 1 Dec. 1860.
331. Whitney, Life on the Circuit, ed. Angle, 51, 411.
332. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 15 Nov. 1858, Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement, 34.
333. Lincoln to Anson G. Henry, Springfield, 19 Nov. 1858, CWL, 3:339.
334. Anson G. Henry to Lincoln, Lafayette, Oregon, 16 Feb. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
335. Lincoln to H. D. Sharpe, Springfield, 8 Dec. 1858, CWL, 3:344.
336. Fragment on the struggle against slavery [c. July, 1858], ibid., 2:482.
337. Lincoln to Charles H. Ray, Springfield, 20 Nov. 1858, ibid., 3:342.
338. Springfield correspondence, 21 June, Utica, New York, Herald, 27 June 1860, copied in the New York Tribune, 9 July 1860.
339. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 6 Aug., 1, 2 Nov. 1858.
340. Chicago Daily Times, 2 Nov. 1858.
341. W. D. Wyatt to Douglas, Lincoln, 8 Nov. 1858, Douglas Papers, University of Chicago.
342. Charles Sweney to Douglas, Prairie City, Illinois, 11 Nov. 1858, ibid.
343. Paris, Illinois, correspondence, 31 July, Illinois State Register (Springfield), 4 Aug. 1858.
344. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 28 Aug., 9 Nov. 1858.
345. J. Henly Smith to Alexander H. Stephens, Washington, 3 Aug. 1858, Stephens Papers, DLC, quoted in Fehrenbacher, Dred Scott Case, 497.
346. Louis Didier, undated memo [ca. Aug. 1858], “A Report to the Honorable S. A. Douglas, U.S.S., on the German Press and German politics in the State of Illinois,” Douglas Papers, University of Chicago.
347. Springfield correspondence, 11 Oct., Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 13 Oct. 1858.
348. Chicago Press and Tribune, 5 Nov. 1858.
349. Springfield correspondence, 21 June, Utica, New York, Herald, 27 June 1860, copied in the New York Tribune, 9 July 1860.
350. Quincy Whig & Republican, n.d., copied in the Dixon Republican and Telegraph, 28 Oct. 1858.
351. William H. Hanna, interview with Herndon, [1865–1866], HI, 459.
352. Lincoln to Campbell, Springfield, 25 June 1858, CWL, 2:473.
353. David Davis to O. M. Hatch, Springfield and Bloomington, 18 Aug. 1858, For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association 4, no. 3 (Autumn 2002):6–7.
354. John Wentworth to David Davis, n.d., quoted in Davis to Lincoln, Bloomington, 1 Jan. [1859, misdated 1858 by Davis], AL MSS DLC.
355. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 9 Dec. 1859, CWL, 3:505.
356. E. B. Washburne to Adele Washburne, Galena, 2 Nov. 1858, Washburn Family Papers, Washburn Memorial Library, Norlands, Maine.
357. H. S. Thomas to Lincoln, Vermont, Illinois, 29 Jan. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
358. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 25 Sept., 23, 24 Nov. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
359. Chicago Press and Tribune, 29 Oct. and 10 Nov. 1858.
360. New York Tribune, 20 Aug. 1860.
361. New York Tribune, 29 May 1860.
362. Ibid., 18 Aug. 1860.
363. Cincinnati Commercial, 29 Oct. 1858.
364. Ottawa Republican, 13 Nov. 1858.
365. Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 582; New York Evening Post, 18 Oct. 1858.
366. Iowa Citizen (Des Moines), 17 Nov. 1858, in F. I. Herriott, Iowa and Abraham Lincoln: Being an Account of the Presidential Discussion and Party Preliminaries in Iowa, 1856–1860 (Des Moines: n.p., 1911), 73.
367. Rochester Democrat, 10 Nov. 1858, in Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 583.
368. Greensburg, Indiana, Decatur Republican, 26 Nov. 1858, quoted in Elmer Duane Elbert, “Southern Indiana Politics on the Eve of the Civil War, 1858–1861” (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1967), 73; Indianapolis Journal, 5 Nov. 1858.
369. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 1 Dec. 1858.
370. Anson Miller to E. B. Washburne, Rockford, 5 Nov. 1858, Washburne Papers, DLC.
371. William H. Hanna and John Wickizer to Lincoln, Bloomington, 5 Nov. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
372. David Davis to Lincoln, Danville, 7 Nov. 1858, ibid.
373. Bromwell to Lincoln, Charleston, 5 Nov. 1858, ibid.
374. White to Lincoln, Chicago, 5 Nov. 1858, ibid.
375. Robert Todd Lincoln to Isaac Markens, Manchester, Vermont, 4 Nov. 1917, Paul M. Angle, ed., A Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Letters by His Oldest Son (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1968), 47.
376. Chester P. Dewey to Lincoln, Rochester, New York, 30 Oct. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
377. John O. Johnson to Ozias M. Hatch, New York, 17 Feb. 1860, Hatch Papers, IHi.
378. Portland Advertiser, 18 Nov., copied in the Alton Courier, 30 Nov. 1858.
379. Speech by Greeley, 22 May, New York Tribune, 23 May 1860.
380. Rives to Ozias M. Hatch, 5 and 10 Nov. 1858, Hatch Papers, IHi.
381. Illinois Gazette (Lacon), 8 Nov. 1858, in J[eriah] B[onham], “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Chicago Tribune, 12 May 1895.
382. Chicago Daily Democrat, 11 Nov. 1858, Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 588.
383. Josiah M. Lucas to O. M. Hatch, Washington, July [1859, no day of the month indicated], Hatch Papers, IHi.
384. Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 2241 (22 May 1860).
385. New York Tribune, 5 Nov. 1858.
386. David R. Locke in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 447.
387. Lincoln to Henry Asbury, Springfield, 19 Nov. 1858, CWL, 3:339.
388. Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, Springfield, 30 Apr. 1859, ibid., 3:378,
389. Lincoln to Alexander Sympson, Springfield, 12 Dec. 1858, ibid., 3:346.
390. Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, Springfield, 29 Jan. 1859, ibid., 3:351.
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1. Comment made to J. Russell Jones, in “Lincoln and Grant in 1863,” statement of Jones to J. McCan Davis, 10 Dec. 1898, typescript, Ida M. Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
2. Joseph Gillespie to [Martin Hardin], Edwardsville, 22 Apr. 1880, Hardin Family Papers, ICHi.
3. Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier: 1838–1900 (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:96.
4. Jesse W. Fell in Osborn H. Oldroyd, ed., The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1882), 474–476.
5. Lincoln to Thomas J. Pickett, Springfield, 16 Apr. 1859, Roy P. Basler et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [hereafter CWL] (8 vols. plus index; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955), 3:377.
6. Seth Eyland [David Edward Cronin], The Evolution of a Life (New York: S. W. Green’s Son, 1884), 293.
7. Schuyler Colfax to Charles M. Heaton, Sr., Washington, 20 Dec. 1858, Colfax Papers, Northern Indiana Center for History, South Bend.
8. Herndon to Horace White, Springfield, 25 Apr. 1890, White Papers,
IHi.
9. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 16 Nov. 1858, CWL, 3:337.
10. Ibid.
11. Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay, Springfield, 16 Mar. 1860, ibid., 4:32; Lincoln to Hawkins Taylor, Springfield, 6 Sept. 1859, ibid., 3:400.
12. Charles S. Zane, “Lincoln As I Knew Him,” Sunset, the Pacific Monthly 29 (Oct. 1912): 432.
13. Lincoln to Samuel C. Davis and Company, Springfield, 17 and 20 Nov. 1858, CWL, 3:338, and Roy P. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, First Supplement, 1832–1865 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973), 35.
14. Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, Springfield, 27 July 1859; Lincoln to Charles Ambos, Springfield, 21 June 1859, CWL, 3:393, 387.
15. William Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 20 Nov. 1885, H-W MSS DLC.
16. William H. Herndon’s interview with George Alfred Townsend, Springfield correspondence, 25 Jan., New York Tribune, 15 Feb. 1867; Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln,” lecture delivered at Springfield, 26 Dec. 1865, Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 1 (1941):429; William Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 20 Nov. 1885, H-W MSS DLC; William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Lincoln, ed. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (1889; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 205.
17. Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, Springfield, 11 Dec. 1858, CWL, 3:345.
18. Lincoln to W. H. Wells, Springfield, 8 Jan. 1859, ibid., 3:349.
19. Speech in Chicago, 1 Mar. 1859, ibid., 3:369–370.
20. Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay, Springfield, 14 May 1859, ibid., 3:379.
21. Lincoln to Nathan Sargent, Springfield, 23 June 1859, ibid., 3:388.
22. Lincoln to Henry L. Pierce and others, Springfield, 6 Apr. 1859, ibid., 3:375–376.
23. The quote comes from Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (1781–1782; New York: Library of America, 1984), 289.
24. Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, 13 July 1860.
25. Nathan M. Knapp to O. M. Hatch, Winchester, Illinois, 12 May 1859, Hatch Papers, IHi.
26. John Law to Richard W. Thompson, Evansville, 27 Feb. 1860, Richard W. Thompson Collection, LMF.
27. John Olney to Lyman Trumbull, Shawneetown, 12 Mar. 1860, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
28. Lincoln to Trumbull, Springfield, 3 Feb. 1859, CWL, 3:355–356.
29. Ray to N. P. Banks, Chicago, 2 Apr. [1859], Banks Papers, DLC.
30. Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax, Springfield, 6 July 1859, CWL, 3:391.
31. Lincoln to Canisius, Springfield, 17 May 1859, ibid., 3:380.
32. Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, 13 July 1860.
33. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 26 June 1858.
34. Lincoln to Chase, Springfield, 9 June 1859, CWL, 3:384.
35. Lincoln to Chase, Springfield, 20 June 1859, ibid., 3:386.
36. Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, Springfield, 28 July 1858, ibid., 3:394–395.
37. Lincoln to Colfax, Springfield, 6 July 1859, ibid., 3:390–391; Colfax to Lincoln, South Bend, Indiana, 14 July 1859, AL MSS DLC.
38. John Hay, “The Heroic Age in Washington,” lecture of 1871, in Michael Burlingame, ed., At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), 116.
39. New York Times, 8, 9 Sept. 1859.
40. Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sept. 1859.
41. Medill to Lincoln, Chicago, 10 Sept. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
42. Speech at Columbus, CWL, 3:400–425.
43. David R. Locke in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York: North American Review, 1886), 446–447.
44. Chicago Press and Tribune, 19 Sept. 1859.
45. Francis P. Blair, Jr., to Lincoln, St. Louis, 18 Oct. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
46. Dayton Daily Empire, 19 Sept. 1859, in John H. Cramer, “Lincoln in Ohio,” The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 54 (1945):155.
47. Ohio Statesman (Columbus), 17 Sept. 1859.
48. Bert S. Bartlow and William H. Todhunter, Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio ([n. p.]: B. F. Bowen, 1905), 123.
49. Rutherford B. Hayes to A. P. Russell, Cincinnati, 14 Sept. 1859, Whelpley Collection, Cincinnati Historical Society.
50. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement, 44–45.
51. Cincinnati Commercial, 19, 17 Sept. 1859.
52. Moncure D. Conway, Autobiography: Memories and Experiences (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:317.
53. Charles Richard Williams, The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), 1:111.
54. Hayes, “Our Two Greatest Presidents,” interview, ca. 1892, in Ari Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995), 108–109.
55. Josiah M. Lucas to O. M. Hatch, Washington, 7 Oct. 1859, Hatch Papers, IHi.
56. Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sept. 1859, in Herbert Mitgang, ed., Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971), 140.
57. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 12 Mar. 1860.
58. J. H. Jordan to Lincoln, Cincinnati, 4 July 1861, AL MSS DLC.
59. Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (2 vols.; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1868), 1:727
60. Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sept., quoted in the Cincinnati Commercial, 19 Sept. 1859.
61. Cincinnati Commercial, 17 Sept. 1859.
62. Springfield correspondence, 16 Oct., New York Herald, 20 Oct. 1860; Springfield correspondence, 6 Nov., New York Tribune, 10 Nov. 1860; letter by a Springfield resident to a prominent Philadelphian, Springfield, 4 June 1860, ibid., 11 June 1860.
63. CWL, 3:470.
64. Indianapolis Daily State Sentinel, 26 Sept. 1859, quoted in Elmer Duane Elbert, “Southern Indiana Politics on the Eve of the Civil War, 1858–1861” (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1967), 103–104.
65. Gayle Thornbrough, ed., The Diary of Calvin Fletcher (8 vols.; Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1972–1981), 6:412 (entry for 19 Sept. 1859).
66. Lincoln to Chase, Springfield, 21 Sept. 1859, CWL, 3:471.
67. Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay, Springfield, 17 Oct. 1859, ibid., 3:490.
68. Ibid., 3:489.
69. Correspondence dated The Beeches, Ohio, 22 Sept., New York Times, 4 Oct. 1859.
70. Chicago Press and Tribune, 19 Oct. 1859.
71. Galloway to Lincoln, Columbus, 13 Oct. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
72. Charles H. Ray to Lincoln, Chicago, [20 Oct. 1859], ibid.
73. Paris, Illinois, Beacon, 30 Nov. 1859, in Donald G. Richter, Lincoln: Twenty Years on the Eastern Prairie (Mattoon, IL: United Graphics, 1999), 241–242.
74. Baltimore Turnzeitung, n.d., copied in the Chicago Press and Tribune, 2 May 1860.
75. Mark W. Delahay to Lincoln, Leavenworth, Kansas, 14 Nov. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
76. Delahay to Lincoln, Leavenworth, Kansas, 15 Nov. 1859, ibid.
77. Nathan M. Knapp to O. M. Hatch, n.p., 12 May 1859, Hatch Papers, IHi.
78. Republican Party of Ohio to Lincoln, Columbus, 7 Dec. 1859, and George M. Parsons et al. to Lincoln, Columbus, 7 Dec. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
79. Lincoln to George M. Parsons et al., Springfield, 19 Dec. 1859, and to James W. Sheahan, Springfield, 24 Jan. 1860, CWL, 3:510, 515.
80. Samuel Galloway to Lincoln, Columbus, 24 Jan. 1860; Richard P. L. Baber to Lincoln, Columbus 25 Jan. 1860, AL MSS DLC.
81. Lincoln to T. Apolion Cheney, Springfield, 14 Aug. 1860, CWL., 4:93.
82. New York Times, 13 July 1860.
83. Speech of 30 September 1859, CWL, 3:471–482.
84. Reminiscences of Charles Caverno, dated Mar. 1902, typescript, William E. Barton Papers, University of Chicago; Henry J. Peterson, “Lincoln at the Wisconsin State Fair as Recalled by John W. Hoyt,” Lincoln Herald 51, no. 4 (December 1949):6–10.
85. Medill to Chase, Chicago, 30 Oct. 1859, Chase Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
86. Lincoln to William E. Frazer, Springfield, 1 Nov. 1859, CWL, 3:491.
87. William M. Reynolds to Lincoln, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 25 July 1860, AL MSS DLC; Lincoln to Edward Wallace, Clinton, 11 Oct. 1859, CWL, 3:487.
88. Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell, Springfield, 20 Dec. 1859, CWL, 3:511.
89. Lewis to Fell, West Chester, 30 Jan. 1860, Fell Papers, DLC; West Chester Chester County Times, 11 Feb. 1860.
90. CWL, 3:511.
91. Undated article in the New York Tribune, The Pennsylvania School Journal (Lancaster) 46 (Jan. 1898) 309-310.
92. Joseph Medill to Archibald W. Campbell, 30 Oct. 1859, Wheeling (West Virginia) Register, 1 May 1932.
93. J. Wainwright Ray to John G. Nicolay, Washington, 18 Oct. 1886, Nicolay Papers, DLC.
94. Xenia, Ohio, News, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 28 Mar. 1860.
95. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 14 Jan. 1860.
96. Ray to Lincoln, Chicago, [20 Oct. 1859], AL MSS DLC.
97. Lincoln to P. Quinn Harrison and to Jesse A. Pickrell, Springfield, 3 Nov. 1859, CWL, 3:492, 493.
98. Trumbull to Lincoln, Washington, 23 Nov. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
99. Jacob R. Freese to Seward, Trenton, New Jersey, 30 Apr. 1860, Thurlow Weed Papers, University of Rochester.
100. William E. Frazer to Lincoln, Cookstown, Pennsylvania, 12 Nov. 1859, AL MSS DLC.
101. James Shepherd Pike to Israel Washburn, New York, 29 Jan. 1860, Washburn Family Papers, Washburn Memorial Library, Norlands, Maine.
102. William P. Fessenden to Elizabeth Warriner, Washington, 16 Mar. and 1 Apr. 1860, and to his son William, Washington, 19 Mar. 1860, Fessenden Family Papers, Bowdoin College.
103. Horace Greeley to Schuyler Colfax, New York, 24 Oct. 1859, Greeley Papers, New York Public Library; Greeley to Mrs. Rebekah M. Whipple, [Apr. 1860], in Jeter Allen Isely, Horace Greeley and the Republican Party, 1853–1861: A Study of the New York Tribune (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947), 266.
104. New York Herald, 16 May 1860.
105. Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties (New York: D. Appleton, 1898), 171.
106. Fitz-Henry Warren to James Shepherd Pike, Burlington, Iowa, 2 and 20 Feb. 1860, Pike Papers, University of Maine.
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