Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume 1

by Michael Burlingame

  107. George A. Nourse to Lyman Trumbull, St. Paul, 13 May 1860, Trumbull Papers, DLC.

  108. Leavenworth, Kansas, correspondence, 18 Aug., New York Tribune, 30 Aug. 1860.

  109. Speech at Elwood, 30 Nov. or 1 Dec. 1859, CWL, 3:496.

  110. Albert D. Richardson, The Secret Service: The Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape (Hartford, CT: American, 1866), 314–315; Fred W. Brinkerhoff, “The Kansas Tour of Lincoln the Candidate,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 13 (1944–1945):305.

  111. Reminiscences of Senator John Ingalls, Washington Post, 29 June 1890.

  112. “Humors of the Day,” Harper’s Weekly, 28 Apr. 1860.

  113. John James Ingalls, “A Forgotten Chapter of History: Abraham Lincoln in Kansas in 1859,” New York Sun, 31 May 1891.

  114. Daniel Webster Wilder to George W. Martin, 22 Apr. 1902, in Kansas State Historical Society Transactions 7 (1901–1902): 536–537n.

  115. CWL, 3:502.

  116. Ibid., 3:503.

  117. Villard’s dispatch quoted in A. B. MacDonald, “Lincoln Gave His ‘Most Important Speech’ in Kansas,” Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 1929.

  118. Leavenworth Weekly Herald, 10 Dec. 1859.

  119. Unidentified clipping, reproducing the Washington correspondence by Ward Burlingame, n.d., Kansas City Star, [18 May 1893?], LMF.

  120. “Early Days of a War Eagle,” reminiscences of Daniel Anthony, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 1902.

  121. Mary E. Delahay, “Judge Mark W. Delahay,” typescript, p. 5, William E. Barton Papers, University of Illinois.

  122. St. Joseph correspondence by William H. Gill, 8 Dec., Leavenworth Weekly Herald, 10 Dec. 1859.

  123. Leavenworth, Kansas, correspondence, 18 Aug., New York Tribune, 30 Aug. 1860.

  124. Leavenworth Times, 7 Dec. 1859, copied in the Leavenworth, Kansas, correspondence, 18 Aug., New York Tribune, 30 Aug. 1860.

  125. Lincoln to James W. Somers, Springfield, 17 Mar. 1860, CWL, 4:33.

  126. Judd to Lyman Trumbull, Chicago, 1 and 6 Dec. 1859, Trumbull Papers, DLC.

  127. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 9 Dec. 1859, CWL, 3:505.

  128. David Davis to [John Wentworth], Bloomington, 25 Sept. 1859, Ozias M. Hatch Papers, IHi.

  129. Lincoln to George W. Dole, Gurdon S. Hubbard, and William H. Brown, Springfield, 14 Dec. 1859, CWL, 3:508.

  130. Roy P. Basler and Christian O. Basler, eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Second Supplement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 19.

  131. Trumbull to Lincoln, Washington, 26 Mar. 1860, AL MSS DLC.

  132. David Davis to Lincoln, Danville, 5 May 1860, ibid.

  133. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 5 Feb. 1860, CWL, 3:516.

  134. William H. Bissell to Salmon P. Chase, Springfield, 4 Feb. 1860, Chase Papers, DLC.

  135. Wiley to Lyman Trumbull, Anna, 10 Jan. 1860, Trumbull Papers, DLC.

  136. A. M. Blackburn to Lyman Trumbull, Jerseyville, 3 Feb. 1860, ibid.

  137. Henry Barber to Lyman Trumbull, Osborn, 5 Mar. 1860, ibid.

  138. Judd, interview with John G. Nicolay, Washington, 28 Feb. 1876, Michael Burlingame, ed., An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), 46.

  139. Reminiscences of Swett in New York correspondence by “Jerome,” 6 Feb., Indiana Journal (Indianapolis), 10 Feb. 1879; Jackson Grimshaw to William H. Herndon, Quincy, 28 Apr. 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), 247; reminiscences of Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton, Illinois, 28 Oct. 1895, Ida M. Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.

  140. Reminiscences of E. M. Haines, in Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: N. D. Thompson, 1886), 327.

  141. Hawkins Taylor, “Early Reminiscences,” Peoria Weekly Journal, 1895, in Emma Siggins White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland ([Kansas City, Mo.]: Tiernan-Dart, 1902), in Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed., Intimate Memories of Lincoln (Elmira, NY: Primavera, 1945), 11.

  142. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall, eds., The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (2 vols.; Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925–1933), 1:395 (entry for 8 Feb. 1860).

  143. H. J. Atkins to Lyman Trumbull, Jacksonville, 28 Dec. 1859, Trumbull Papers, DLC.

  144. Marshall to Lyman Trumbull, Charleston, 17 Feb. 1860, ibid.

  145. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 9 Feb. 1860, CWL, 3:517.

  146. Chicago Press and Tribune, 16 Feb. 1860.

  147. Judd to Lincoln, Chicago, 21 Feb. 1860, AL MSS DLC.

  148. Judd to Trumbull, Chicago, 2 Apr. 1860, Trumbull Papers, DLC.

  149. Washington correspondence, 20 Feb., Chicago Press and Tribune, 27 Feb. 1860.

  150. Joseph Medill to Frederic Bancroft, n.p., 18 Feb. 1896, Frederic Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward (2 vols.; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1900), 1:531n.

  151. Lincoln to Judd, Springfield, 14 Dec. 1859, CWL, 3:509.

  152. Chicago correspondence, n.d., New York Herald, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 18 Jan. 1860.

  153. Sioux City Register, 31 Dec. 1859.

  154. John Law to Richard W. Thompson, Evansville, 27 Feb. 1860, Richard W. Thompson Collection, LMF.

  155. S. M. Pettingill to William H. Bailhache, New York, 12 Oct. 1859, Lincoln Collection, RPB.

  156. Lawrence Weldon, in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 207; William H. Bailhache to John Hay, Los Angeles, 4 Apr. 1887, copy, Hay Papers, DLC.

  157. Herndon to Ward Hill Lamon, Springfield, 6 Mar. 1870, Lamon Papers, CSmH.

  158. Thurlow Weed Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 269.

  159. Springfield correspondence, 4 Sept., New York Evening Post, 8 Sept. 1860.

  160. Interview with Mrs. Stephen Smith, Bloomington Pantagraph, 19 Feb. 1895; Elizabeth Irons Folsom, “New Stories of Abraham Lincoln,” The American Magazine 96 (July 1923):47, 120–122.

  161. Charles C. Nott to Lincoln, New York, 9 Feb. 1860, AL MSS DLC, and to John P. Hale, New York, 8 Mar. 1860, Hale Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society; Richard C. McCormick’s reminiscences, New York, 29 Apr., New York Evening Post, 3 May 1865; Cephas Brainerd to N. P. Banks, New York, 2 Mar. 1860, Banks Papers, DLC.

  162. Bowen in William Hayes Ward, Abraham Lincoln, Tributes from His Associates: Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen, and Citizens (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895), 28; interview with Stephen M. Griswold in “Lincoln at Plymouth,” unidentified, undated newspaper clipping, LMF.

  163. Mason Brayman to W. H. Bailhache, New York, 27 Feb. 1860, Lincoln Collection, ICHi.

  164. Undated reminiscences of Mrs. Theodore Gowdy (nèe Mary Brayman), daughter of Mason Brayman, Ida M. Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College; undated, unidentified newspaper clipping, Lincoln Scrap Books, Judd Stewart Collection, CSmH.

  165. Mason Brayman to W. H. Bailhache, New York, 27 Feb. 1860, Lincoln Collection, ICHi.

  166. Truman H. Bartlett to Charles L. McLellan, Chocorua, New Hampshire, 26 Aug. 1908, Lincoln Collection, RPB.

  167. Roy Meredith, Mr. Lincoln’s Camera Man, Mathew B. Brady (New York: Scribner’s, 1946), 59.

  168. Richard C. McCormick’s reminiscences, New York, 29 Apr., New York Evening Post, 3 May 1865.

  169. New York Tribune, 25 Feb. 1860.

  170. James A. Briggs in the New York Evening Post, 16 Aug. 1867.

  171. [Cornelius A. Runkle’s reminiscences in] Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery (New York: Putnam’s, 1894), 186.

  172. Mason Brayman to William Bailhache, New York, 28 Feb. 1860, Bailhache-Brayman Papers, IHi.

  173. CWL, 3:522–550.

  174. [Cornelius A. Runkle’s reminiscences in] Brooks, Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 187; Richard C. McCormick’s reminiscences, New York, 29 Apr., Ne
w York Evening Post, 3 May 1865

  175. New York Tribune, 28 Feb., 6 Mar. 1860.

  176. John Bigelow to William Hargreaves, New York, 30 July 1860, Bigelow Papers, New York Public Library; New York Evening Post, 28 Feb. 1860; Charles H. Brown, William Cullen Bryant (New York: Scribner, 1971), 419.

  177. New York correspondence by “Launcelot,” 3 Mar. 1860, Press and Tribune, n.d., clipping in scrapbook # 11, Edmund C. Stedman Papers, Columbia University.

  178. New York Independent, n.d., copied in the Chicago Press and Tribune, 4 June 1860.

  179. Boston Atlas and Daily Bee, 29 Feb. 1860; Boston Journal, 29 Feb. 1860, in William Francis Hanna, “Abraham Lincoln and the New England Press, 1858–1860” (Ph.D. dissertation, Boston College, 1980), 47–48.

  180. Horace Greeley “Greeley’s Estimate of Lincoln: An Unpublished Address by Horace Greeley,” Century Magazine 42 (July 1891):373.

  181. Washington correspondence, n.d., Rock Island, Illinois, Register, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 26 Mar. 1860.

  182. Charles C. Nott and Cephas Brainerd, eds., “The Address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln: In Vindication of the Policy of the Framers of the Constitution and the Principles of the Republican Party, Delivered at Cooper Institute, February 27th, 1860” (pamphlet; New York: G. F. Nesbitt, 1860), reproduced in George Haven Putnam, Abraham Lincoln: The People’s Leader in the Struggle for National Existence (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909), 233–288 (quote appears on 233–234).

  183. Richard C. McCormick’s reminiscences, New York, 29 Apr., New York Evening Post, 3 May 1865.

  184. Charles T. Rodgers et al. to Lincoln, n.p., 26 Sept. 1864, AL MSS DLC.

  185. New York Herald, 19 May 1860; Boston Post, n.d., copied in the Chicago Daily Times, 4 Mar. 1860.

  186. Illinois State Register (Springfield), 3 and 19 Mar. 1860.

  187. Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, Exeter, New Hampshire, 4 Mar. 1860, Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement, 49.

  188. CWL, 4:7, 12.

  189. Ibid., 4:25.

  190. “A Talk with Abraham Lincoln,” Rev. John P. Gulliver, New York Independent, 1 Sept. 1864; reminiscences of Edward Goodman Holden, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 1900.

  191. Reminiscences of Alfred Hemenway, enclosed in Hemenway to Albert J. Beveridge, Boston, 11 Nov. 1925, Beveridge Papers, DLC.

  192. Speech at Hartford, 5 Mar. 1860, CWL, 4:7, 8, 12.

  193. Speech of 6 Mar. 1860, ibid., 4:23, 18.

  194. John P. Bartlett to the editor, n.d., Century Magazine 54 (July 1897):475.

  195. Stevens, A Reporter’s Lincoln, ed. Burlingame, 55, 96.

  196. F. B. Sanborn, Recollections of Seventy Years (2 vols.; Boston: R.G. Badger, 1909), 1:25.

  197. Concord Independent Democrat, 8 Mar. 1860.

  198. Henry McFarland, Sixty Years in Concord and Elsewhere: Personal Recollections of Henry McFarland, 1831–1891 (Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1899), 204.

  199. Ben: Perley Poore and F. B. Eaton, Sketches of the Life and Public Services of Frederick Smyth of New Hampshire (Manchester, NH: John B. Clarke, 1885), 99.

  200. Manchester American, 2 Mar. 1860, quoted in Lucy Lowden, “The People’s Party: the ‘Heirs of Jackson’ and the Rise of the Republican Party in New Hampshire, 1845–1860” (M.A. thesis, Western Illinois University, 1971), 91.

  201. Poore and Eaton, Smyth, 100.

  202. Theodore Tilton to Wendell Phillips, New York, 1 Mar. 1860, Phillips Papers, Harvard University.

  203. Frederick Smyth to Lincoln, 5 Nov. 1860, Smyth Letterbooks, New Hampshire Historical Society, quoted in Lowden, “The People’s Party,” 90.

  204. James B. Angell, The Reminiscences of James Burrill Angell (New York: Longmans, Green, 1912), 117.

  205. G. W. Jackson to James F. Simmons, Providence, 2 Mar. 1860, James F. Simmons Papers, DLC.

  206. John W. Mahan to Stephen A. Douglas, Boston, 10 Apr. 1860, Douglas Papers, University of Chicago.

  207. Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), 135.

  208. Ibid.

  209. Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry 8 (May 1865):1–3; “Lincoln Among the Children,” New York Tribune, 30 May 1860; Patrick McCarty and several other boys enrolled in the charity school at the Five Points House of Industry to Lincoln, New York, 16 Oct. 1863, AL MSS DLC; Edward Eggleston in Browne, Every-Day Life of Lincoln, 322–323; F. Lauriston Bullard, “When Lincoln Was Taken for ‘a Western Clergyman,’ ” Lincoln Herald 46 (1944):23–25.

  210. Julia Tappan to William Barney, New York, 25 Mar. 1860, in James N. Adams, “Lincoln and Hiram Barney,” Journal of the Ilinois State Historical Society 50 (1957):347.

  211. Mason Brayman to William Bailhache, New York, 28 Feb. 1860, Bailhache-Brayman Papers, IHi.

  212. Briggs in the New York Evening Post, 16 Aug. 1867.

  213. Babcock to Lincoln, New Haven, 22 Feb. 1864, AL MSS DLC.

  214. Charles E. Dyer to John G. Nicolay, Norwich, Connecticut, 26 Aug. 1887, Nicolay Papers, DLC.

  215. Hartford Evening Press, 6 Mar. 1860, in Hanna, “Lincoln and the New England Press,” 75.

  216. James F. Babcock to Gideon Welles, New Haven, 3 Feb. 1868, Abraham Lincoln Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

  217. Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, 3 Mar. 1860.

  218. Menard Index (Petersburg), n.d., copied in the Chicago Press and Tribune, 28 Mar. 1860.

  219. Machias, Maine, Republican, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 19 Mar. 1860.

  220. Chicago Press and Tribune, 21 Mar. 1860.

  221. Letter by L. B. G. [George B. Lincoln], Sandovel, Illinois, 9 Jan. 1860, Chicago Press and Tribune, 12 Jan. 1860.

  222. Galloway to Lincoln, Columbus, 15 Mar. 1860, AL MSS DLC.

  223. Trumbull to Lincoln, Washington, 26 Mar. 1860, ibid.

  224. C. D. Hay to Lincoln, Newton, Illinois, 27 Mar. 1860, ibid.

  225. Rollins to Lincoln, Concord, New Hampshire, 2 Mar. 1860, ibid.

  226. Herman Kreismann to E. B. Washburne, Hartford, 30 Mar. 1860, Washburne Papers, DLC.

  227. Concord Independent Democrat, 8 Mar. 1860.

  228. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 44–45 (1951–52): 171.

  229. Lincoln to T. C. Moore, Springfield, 1 May 1860, Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement, 53.

  230. CWL, 4:41–42.

  231. Delahay to Lincoln, Lawrence, Kansas, 17 Feb. 1860, and Leavenworth, Kansas, 7 Apr. 1860, AL MSS DLC; Lincoln to Delahay, Springfield, 16 Mar. and 14 Apr. 1860, CWL, 4:32, 44.

  232. Lincoln to E. Stafford, Springfield, 17 Mar. 1860, CWL, 4:33.

  233. Lincoln to Trumbull, Springfield, 29 Apr. 1860, ibid., 4:45.

  234. Lincoln to Galloway, Chicago, 24 Mar. 1860, ibid., 4:34.

  235. Henry C. Baird to John M. Read, Philadelphia, 23 Apr. 1860, Lincoln Collection, RPB.

  236. Lincoln to Richard M. Corwine, Springfield, 6 Apr. 1860, CWL, 4:36.

  237. Lincoln to Trumbull, Springfield, 29 Apr. 1860, ibid., 4:45–46.

  238. Ibid.

  239. 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), 26 (entry for 17 Oct. 1861); Whitney, Life on the Circuit, ed. Angle, 153.

  240. Lincoln to Richard M. Corwine, Springfield, 2 May 1860, CWL, 4:47-48.

  241. Delahay to Lincoln, Leavenworth, Kansas, 26 Mar. 1860, AL MSS DLC.

  242. John A. Morton to Richard W. Thompson, n.p., 26 Mar. 1860, Thompson Papers, LMF; Washington correspondence, 1 Aug., New York Herald, 9 Aug. 1859.

  243. Wilmot to Lincoln, Towanda, Pennsylvania, 11 July 1860, AL MSS DLC.

  244. New York Tribune, 23 May 1860.

  245. Joseph M. Root to Joshua R. Giddings, Sandusky, Ohio, 26 May 1860, Giddings Papers, Ohio Historical Society.

>   246. McLean to John Teesdale, Lake Pepin, Minnesota, 3 Sept. 1859, in William Salter, ed., “Letters of John McLean to John Teesdale,” The Biblioteca Sacra 56 (1899):740.

  247. St. Joseph correspondence by Gill, 8 Dec., Leavenworth Weekly Herald, 10 Dec. 1859.

  248. Moses’s reminiscences, Winchester, Illinois, Independent, n.d., copied in the Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 27 Oct. 1879.

  249. Indianapolis correspondence by Charles A. Page, 30 Apr. 1865, in Charles A. Page, Letters of a War Correspondent, ed. James R. Gilmore (Boston: L. C. Page, 1899), 376; Mark A. Plummer, Lincoln’s Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 41–42; Johnson to William Herndon, [1865–1866], HI, 462–463; “Viator” to the editors, Decatur, 4 May, Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 7 May 1860.

  250. “Viator” to the editors, Decatur, 4 May, Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 7 May 1860.

  251. CWL, 4:48.

  252. “Republican History, Some Reminiscences of the Decatur Convention of 1860,” Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 26 May 1879.

  253. Brooks, Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 184.

  254. Noah Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, July 1865, in Michael Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 213–214.

  255. N. M. Knapp to Ozias M. Hatch, Winchester, Illinois, 12 Mar. 1860, Hatch Papers, IHi.

  256. Chicago Herald, 12 May 1860.

  257. Henry Asbury to K. K. Jones, Quincy, Illinois, 2 Oct. 1882, copy, files of the Abraham Lincoln Association, IHi; Ida Tarbell to John S. Phillips, Bloomington, Illinois, 16 Nov. 1922, recounting a conversation with Oglesby’s friend Joseph Fifer, Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College; Nathaniel G. Wilcox to Lincoln, Frederick, Illinois, 6 June 1864, AL MSS DLC; obituary of David Davis, Chicago Times, 27 June 1886.

  258. Kreismann to E. B. Washburne, Chicago, 13 May 1860, Washburne Papers, DLC.

  259. J. M. Ruggles, “Reminiscences of the Pekin Convention and of Abraham Lincoln,” undated manuscript, Ida Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.

  260. “Lincoln at the Decatur Convention,” speech by Richard Price Morgan, delivered in Pontiac, Illinois, 12 Dec. 1909, in Isaac N. Phillips, ed., Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him (Bloomington IL: Pantagraph, 1910), 94.