143. Trumbull to Lincoln, St. Louis, 14 Sept. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
144. Joliet speech, 31 Aug., Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 9 Sept. 1858.
145. Jonesboro correspondence, 15 Sept., New York Evening Post, 20 Sept. 1858.
146. Chicago Press and Tribune, 17 Sept. 1858.
147. William H. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 2 Sept. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
148. CWL, 3:116–135.
149. [Henry Villard], “Douglas und Lincoln, Die dritte Discussion zu Jonesboro, Ill., am 15. Sept.” New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, 22 Sept. 1858.
150. Louisville Journal, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 4 Oct. 1858.
151. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 28 Oct. 1858; Peoria Transcript, 20 Sept. 1858, Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 263.
152. Chicago Press and Tribune, 17 Sept. 1858.
153. Galesburg Semi-Weekly Democrat, 18 Sept. 1858.
154. Jonesboro correspondence, 15 Sept., New York Evening Post, 20 Sept. 1858.
155. Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie, Centralia, 16 Sept. 1858, Roy P. Basler and Christian O. Basler, eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Second Supplement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 16.
156. Bissell to E. B. Washburne, Springfield, 23 Sept. 1858, Washburne Papers, DLC.
157. Centralia correspondence, 17 Sept., Chicago Press and Tribune, 20 Sept. 1858.
158. Galena Weekly Northwest Gazette, 5 Oct. 1858.
159. Whitney, statement for Herndon [Nov. 1866?], Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln [hereafter HI] (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 406.
160. Charleston correspondence, 18 Sept., New York Evening Post, 25 Sept. 1858.
161. Chicago Times, 21 Sept. 1858, Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 312.
162. Horace White in 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), 406.
163. Chicago Press and Tribune, 21 Sept. 1858.
164. Charleston Courier, 22 Sept. 1858.
165. W. M. Chambers to Lincoln, Charleston, 22 July 1858, AL MSS DLC.
166. Thomas A. Marshall to Lincoln, Charleston, 22 July 1858, ibid.
167. David Davis to Lincoln, Bloomington, 3 Aug. 1858, ibid.
168. Jediah F. Alexander to Lincoln, Greenville, 5 Aug. 1858, ibid.
169. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 31 July 1858.
170. Orville Sexton to Lyman Trumbull, Shawneetown, 25 Sept. 1857, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
171. J. J. Brown to Douglas, Charleston, 26 Aug. 1858, typed copy, George Fort Milton Papers, DLC.
172. Delahay to Lincoln, Alton, 13 Aug. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
173. J. H. Jordan to Lincoln, Cincinnati, 24 Aug. 1858, ibid.
174. B. Lewis to Lincoln, Jacksonville, 25 Aug. 1858, ibid.
175. CWL 3:145–158.
176. Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (2 vols.; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906), 1:254, 255.
177. John W. Blassingame et al., eds., The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series 1: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews (5 vols.; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979–1991), 3:233–237; Illinois State Register (Springfield), 7 Aug. 1858; Chicago Weekly Times, 12 Aug. 1858; Jacksonville Sentinel, 20 Aug. 1858.
178. “Speeches of Senator S. A. Douglas on the Occasion of His Public Receptions,” 5 (speech of 6 Dec. 1858 at New Orleans).
179. Chicago Press and Tribune, 21 Sept. 1858.
180. Farnsworth to Lincoln, Chicago, 20 Sept. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
181. Jonesboro correspondence, 15 Sept., New York Evening Post, 20 Sept. 1858.
182. Chicago Press and Tribune, 7 Sept. 1858.
183. Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847–1865, ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (2nd ed.; Washington, DC: privately published, 1911), 24.
184. CWL, 3:178–201.
185. Chicago Press and Tribune, 21 Sept. 1858; Paris Prairie Beacon News, 24 Sept. 1858.
186. Undated statement by Hiram W. Beckwith, Ida M. Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
187. Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: N. D. Thompson, 1886), 287.
188. Chicago Press and Tribune, 21 and 23 Sept. 1858.
189. Charleston Courier, 22 Sept. 1858.
190. Charleston correspondence, 18 Sept., New York Evening Post, 25 Sept. 1858.
191. Davis to Lincoln, Lincoln, Illinois, 25 Sept. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
192. Oglesby to Sheridan Wait, 21 Sept. 1858, Otto Kyle, Abraham Lincoln in Decatur (New York: Vantage, 1957), 98.
193. Oglesby to Isaac N. Arnold, Lincoln, Illinois, 7 Mar. 1883, in Charles H. Coleman, Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois (New Brunswick, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 182.
194. Horace White in Herndon’s Lincoln, ed. Wilson and Davis, 406.
195. Undated statement by Hiram W. Beckwith, Ida M. Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
196. Whitney, Life on the Circuit, ed. Angle, 410.
197. Paris Prairie Beacon News, n.d., copied in the Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 16 Sept. 1858; Illinois State Chronicle, 9 Sept., copied in the Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 16 Sept. 1858.
198. James G. Wright to Lincoln, Naperville, 11 Oct. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
199. Springfield Republican, 4 Oct. 1858, in Hanna, “Lincoln and the New England Press,” 30.
200. Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 22 Sept. 1858.
201. Chicago Congregational Herald, [30 Sept.], copied in the Chicago Daily Times, 9 Oct. 1858.
202. The National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York), 17 Nov. 1860.
203. Herndon to Parker, Springfield, 23 Nov. 1858. Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
204. Congressional Globe, 35th Congress, 2nd Session, 346 (12 Jan. 1859).
205. Oliver Dyer, Phonographic Report of the Proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention (New York, 1848), 9, in Eric Foner, “Politics and Prejudice: The Free Soil Party and the Negro, 1849–1852,” Journal of Negro History 50 (1965):242.
206. Lovejoy, speech in Chicago, 15 Oct. 1860, The Liberator (Boston), 9 Nov. 1860.
207. Speech of Feb. 1859, in William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore, eds., His Brother’s Blood: Owen Lovejoy, Speeches and Writings, 1838–1864 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 177.
208. George Allen Hubbell, Horace Mann: Educator, Patriot, and Reformer (Philadelphia: Fell, 1910), 267.
209. Seward, “The National Divergence and Return,” speech of 4 Sept. 1860, in George E. Baker, ed., The Works of William Henry Seward (5 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1884–1887), 4:317.
210. Ibid., 312.
211. Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 58–59 (8 Dec. 1859).
212. Unidentified clipping attached to a letter from Charles Taintor, Jr., to Trumbull, [Jackson, Michigan], Dec. 1859, Trumbull Family Papers, IHi.
213. Speech of Lyman Trumbull in Chicago, 7 Aug. 1858, National Era (Washington), 2 Sept. 1858.
214. Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1685 (12 Apr. 1860).
215. Foner, “Politics and Prejudice,” 249.
216. Clay to the editor of the New York World, n.p., 19 Feb. 1861, Richard W. Thompson Collection, LMF.
217. New York Tribune, 26 Sept. 1857.
218. Speech of Samuel Carey of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Commercial, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 10 Sept. 1860.
219. New York Times, 27, 28 June 1860.
220. Sullivan correspondence, 20 September, Illinois State Register (Springfield), 28 Sept. 1858.
221. Sullivan correspondence, 20 Sept., Chicago Times, 24 Sept. 1858, in Paul M. Angle, ed., Created Equal? The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 276–280; Sullivan correspondence, 20 Sept., Illinois State Register (Springfield), 28 Se
pt. 1858; Sullivan correspondence, 20 Sept., Chicago Press and Tribune, 25 Sept. 1858; Sullivan correspondence, 20 Sept., Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 23 Sept. 1858; Chicago Weekly Times, 30 Sept. 1858.
222. Douglas, speech at Springfield, 20 Oct., Illinois State Register (Springfield), 22 Oct. 1858.
223. Julian M. Sturtevant, An Autobiography (New York: F. J. Revell Company, 1896), 292.
224. Vermilion County Press (Danville), 29 Sept. 1858, in Donald G. Richter, Lincoln: Twenty Years on the Eastern Prairie (Mattoon, IL: United Graphics, 1999), 213.
225. Lafayette Daily Courier, 23 Sept. 1858, quoted ibid., 216.
226. Lincoln to Norman B. Judd, Danville, 23 Sept. 1858, CWL, 3:202.
227. Fragment: Notes for Speeches, [1 Oct. 1858?], ibid., 3:205.
228. Whitney to Lincoln, Chicago, 7 Aug. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
229. Douglas’s speech at Oquawka, 4 Oct. 1858, Oquawka correspondence, 4 Oct., Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 9 Oct. 1858; Douglas’s speech at Springfield, 20 Oct., Illinois State Register (Springfield), 29 Oct. 1858; Douglas’s speech at Henry, 29 Sept., summarized in the Chicago Journal, 5 Oct. 1858.
230. Speech at Carthage, 22 Oct. 1858, CWL, 3:206, 330–331.
231. Speech at Danville, 22 Sept. 1858, Danville correspondence, 22 Sept., Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 27 Sept. 1858.
232. Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, 15 Oct., copied in the Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 19 Oct. 1858.
233. Herndon to Trumbull, Springfield, 24 June 1858, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
234. Paul M. Zall, ed., Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Abraham Lincoln (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 20.
235. William Herndon to Lyman Trumbull, Springfield, 24 June, 8 July 1858, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
236. A. Sherman to Ozias Hatch, Springfield, 27 Sept. 1858, Hatch Papers, IHi, quoted in Rodney O. Davis, “Dr. Charles Leib: Lincoln’s Mole?” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 24 (2003):23.
237. Stewart W. McClelland, “A. Lincoln, LL.D.” Lincoln Herald 41, no. 3 (May 1939):3.
238. Chicago Press and Tribune, 9 Oct. 1858; Galesburg Democrat, 9 Oct. 1858, Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 372–373.
239. Congressional Globe, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 962 (7 Dec. 1857).
240. Onarga correspondence, 24 Sept., Chicago Weekly Times, 30 Sept. 1858; Journal de l’Illinois, 1 Oct., copied in the Chicago Press and Tribune, 8 Oct. 1858; Oquawka Plaindealer, n.d., copied in the Chicago Journal, 16 Oct. 1858.
241. Douglas’s speech in Springfield, 5 Sept., Illinois State Register (Springfield), 6 Sept. 1858.
242. Thomas J. Pickett to Lincoln, Pekin, 3 Aug. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
243. Chicago Press and Tribune, 8 Oct. 1858.
244. CWL, 3:220–235.
245. Chicago Press and Tribune, 8 Oct. 1858.
246. Chicago Daily Times, 9 Oct. 1858.
247. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 12 Oct. 1858.
248. New York Herald, 13 Oct. 1858.
249. Cincinnati Commercial, 23, 25 Sept. 1858.
250. Horace White in Herndon’s Lincoln, ed. Wilson and Davis, 407.
251. St. Louis correspondence, 29 Sept., Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 30 Sept. 1858.
252. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (3 vols.; New York: McClure, 1907–1908), 2:91.
253. Quincy correspondence, 13 Oct. Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 15 Oct. 1858, in Sparks, ed., Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 443.
254. CWL, 3: 245–257.
255. Schurz, Reminiscences, 2:95.
256. Chicago Daily Times, 17 Oct. 1858.
257. Chicago Press and Tribune, 15 Oct. 1858.
258. David R. Locke in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 444.
259. CWL, 3: 275–283.
260. Schurz, Reminiscences, 2:96.
261. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 18 Oct. 1858.
262. Chicago Daily Times, 17 Oct. 1858.
263. David R. Locke in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 441–443.
264. Koerner, Memoirs, 2:66–67.
265. Salmon P. Chase to Kate Chase, Warren, Illinois, 28 Oct. 1858, Chase Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
266. Isaac H. Sturgeon to John F. Snyder, St. Louis, 5 May 1860, John F. Snyder Papers, Missouri Historical Society; Isaac H. Sturgeon to James Buchanan, St. Louis, 6 Sept. 1860, Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
267. Chicago Press and Tribune, 18 Oct. 1858.
268. J[eriah] B[onham], “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Chicago Tribune, 12 May 1895; Jeriah Bonham, Fifty Years’ Recollections (Peoria, IL: J. W. Franks & Sons, 1883), 175–176.
269. Speech in Richmond, Indiana, 1 Oct. 1842, in Robert Seager et al., eds., The Papers of Henry Clay (10 vols.; Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959–1991), 9:779.
270. Jonathan Birch, in Weik, Real Lincoln, ed. Burlingame, 201.
271. CWL, 3:297–318.
272. Chicago Press and Tribune, 18 Oct. 1858.
273. “The Campaign in Illinois, Last Joint Debate, Douglas and Lincoln at Alton, Illinois” (pamphlet; Washington, DC: Lemuel Towers, 1858).
274. Springfield correspondence, 18 Oct., New York Evening Post, 20 Oct. 1858.
275. Reminiscences of John Hitt, in Stevens, A Reporter’s Lincoln, ed. Burlingame, 59.
276. Douglas to Linder, [Aug. 1858], telegram, Robert W. Johannsen, ed., The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), 427.
277. William H. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 3 Oct. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
278. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 27 Sept. 1858.
279. Ottawa Little Giant, 22 Sept. 1858, in C. C. Tisler and Aleita G. Tisler, “Lincoln Was Here for Another Go at Douglas” (pamphlet; Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1958), 52.
280. Jacksonville correspondence, 6, 7 Sept., Chicago Press and Tribune, 9, 13 Sept. 1858.
281. Illinois State Register (Springfield), n.d., quoted in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 21 Oct. 1858.
282. Lincoln to Chase, Springfield, 30 Apr. 1859, CWL, 3:378.
283. Lincoln to Andrew McCallen, Springfield, 19 June 1858, ibid., 2:469.
284. H. Villardt to Douglas, Chicago, 24 Aug. 1858, Douglas Papers, University of Chicago. I am indebted to Professor Allen C. Guelzo for calling this letter to my attention.
285. Harris to Douglas, Springfield, 7 July 1858, ibid.
286. Lincoln to Crittenden, Springfield, 7 July 1858, CWL, 2:484.
287. Crittenden to Lincoln, Frankfort, 29 July 1858, AL MSS DLC.
288. Louisville Journal, 26 Oct., copied in the Chicago Press and Tribune, 27 Oct. 1858.
289. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 25 and 29 Oct. 1858.
290. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 26 Oct. 1858; William H. Townsend, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955), 235–236.
291. Chicago Times, n.d., copied in the Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, 13 Nov. 1858; Chicago Daily Times, 2 Oct. 1858; Chicago Weekly Times, 30 Sept. 1858.
292. Fragments: notes for speeches [ca. Sept. 1859?], CWL, 3:399.
293. Lincoln to James N. Brown, Springfield, 18 Oct. 1858, ibid., 3:327–328.
294. Alexander Sympson to John C. Bagby, Carthage, 25 Oct. 1858, Bagby Papers, IHi.
295. Lawrence Beaumont Stringer, “From the Sangamon to the Potomac: More Light on Abraham Lincoln,” typescript of an unpublished manuscript, p. 134, Edgar Dewitt Jones Papers, Detroit Public Library.
296. Thomas Lowry, Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (London: Privately printed, 1910), 15; Chicago Press and Tribune, 23 Oct. 1858.
297. Speech at Springfield, 30 Oct. 1858, CWL, 3:334.
298. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 1 Nov. 1858.
299. Chicago Press and Tribune, 29 Oct. 1858.
300. George S.
Merriam, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles (2 vols.; New York: Century, 1885), 1:240.
301. Burlington, Iowa, Gazette 29 Oct. 1858, in Sparks, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 533.
302. Lincoln to Judd, Rushville, 20 Oct. 1858, CWL, 3:329–330.
303. O. M. Hatch to Lyman Trumbull, Springfield, 13 July 1857, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
304. David Davis to E. D. Morgan, Bloomington, 22 Sept. 1860, Edwin D. Morgan Papers, New York State Library, Albany.
305. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 30 Oct. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
306. Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 22 Oct. 1858.
307. Princeton correspondence, 18 Oct., New York Evening Post, 21 Oct. 1858.
308. Springfield correspondence, 18 Oct., ibid., 20 Oct. 1858.
309. David Davis to Julius Rockwell, Danville, 26 Oct. 1858, Davis Papers, DLC.
310. William H. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 30 Oct. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
311. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 9 Nov. 1858.
312. David Davis to Lincoln, Danville, 7 Nov. 1858, AL MSS DLC; David Davis to George Perrin Davis, Danville, 7 Nov. 1858, Davis Papers, IHi; Davis to Julius Rockwell, Danville, 26 Oct. 1858, Davis Papers, DLC.
313. Chicago Press and Tribune, 5, 17 Nov. 1858.
314. New York Times, 25 October 1858; New York Tribune, 24 May 1860.
315. Ebenezer Peck to Lyman Trumbull, Chicago, 22 Nov. 1858, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
316. Palmer to Trumbull, n. d., quoted in Palmer, Conscientious Turncoat, 54–55.
317. G. W. Rives to O. M. Hatch, Paris, Illinois, 5 and 10 Nov. 1858; Jackson Grimshaw to O. M. Hatch, Quincy, 14 Nov. 1858; John Tillson to O. M. Hatch, Quincy, 15 Nov. 1858, Hatch Papers, IHi.
318. William H. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 11, 25 Sept. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa.
319. Davis to Julius Rockwell, Danville, 26 Oct. 1858, Davis Papers, DLC.
320. David Davis to Lincoln, Danville, 7 Nov. 1858, AL MSS DLC.
321. E. L. Pierce to Salmon P. Chase, Milton, Massachusetts, 5 Nov. 1858, Chase Papers, DLC.
322. Herndon to Theodore Parker, Springfield, 31 Aug., 26 Oct., 8 Nov. 1858, Herndon-Parker Papers, University of Iowa; Herndon to Lyman Trumbull, Springfield, 8 Nov. 1858, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
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