Book Read Free

Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Page 34

by Richard Brookhiser


  287“upon his army” Grant, 604.

  288“intelligent black man” To Edwin M. Stanton, 2/8/65, CWVIII:273–274. Joseph Louis Cook, who had a black father, was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army in 1779, but he self-identified as an American Indian.

  289“their situation” Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, 10/16/54, SWII:315.

  289“as long as you are president” Thomas, 502.

  289“white trash” Donald, 317.

  289a proclamation Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 12/8/63, SWII:555–558.

  290“very intelligent” To Michael Hahn, 3/13/64, SWII:579.

  291“energy, and daring” Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, DC, 4/11/65, SWII:699–700.

  291“he will ever make” Donald, 588.

  292“own responsibility” Francis Wilson, 50–54.

  292himself had nixed Donald, 677–678.

  294“liberate them” Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, 2/27/60, SWII:125.

  294“bullfrog” Donald, 597.

  295a disgrace to the age Sherman, II:349. This is Sherman’s characterization of what Johnston said. In his own memoirs Johnston said he called it “the greatest possible calamity to the South” (Johnston, 402).

  Epilogue

  299Another was given World’s Orators, X:300–305.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  One book that does not appear in this bibliography, but which anyone interested in Lincoln should read, is Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric, particularly the chapters “Edmund Burke and the Argument from Circumstance” and “Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition.”

  Abbreviations of Most-Cited Works

  CW

  Lincoln, Abraham. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Roy P. Basler, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

  H

  Herndon, William. Herndon’s Life of Lincoln. With Introduction and Notes by Paul M. Angle. New York: Da Capo Press, 1983.

  HI

  Herndon’s Informants. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

  J

  Jefferson, Thomas. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Adrienne Koch and William Peden, eds. New York: Modern Library, 1944.

  P

  Paine, Thomas. Collected Writings. Eric Foner, ed. New York: Library of America, 1995.

  SW

  Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings. Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed. New York: Library of America, 1989.

  Abridgement of the Debates of Congress. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1861.

  Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.

  Adams, Henry. History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison. New York: Library of America, 1986.

  Alter, Robert. The Wisdom Books. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.

  American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation. James G. Basker, ed. New York: Library of America, 2012.

  American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, ed. New York: Library of America, 2006.

  Appendix to the Congressional Globe for the First Session, Thirtieth Congress. Washington, DC: Blair and Rives, 1848.

  Bayne, Julia Taft. Tad Lincoln’s Father. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931.

  Boritt, Gabor S. Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

  Bray, Robert. Reading with Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

  Brookhiser, Richard. “Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address.” For the People, a Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Spring 2014.

  ———. America’s First Dynasty. New York: The Free Press, 2002.

  ———. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: The Free Press, 1996.

  ———. Gentleman Revolutionary. New York: The Free Press, 2003.

  ———. James Madison. New York: Basic Books, 2011.

  ———. “Was Lincoln Gay?” New York Times Book Review, January 9, 2005.

  ———. “We’ve Been Here Before” (Harrison). American History, June 2012.

  ———. “We’ve Been Here Before” (Vallandingham). American History, August 2013.

  Brooks, Noah. Lincoln Observed. Michael Burlingame, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

  Chambrun, Marquis de. “Personal Recollections of Mr. Lincoln.” Scribner’s 13, no. 1 (1893).

  Chapman, John Jay. William Lloyd Garrison. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1913.

  Chesnut, Mary Boykin. A Diary from Dixie . . . Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary, eds. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905.

  Collins, Gail. William Henry Harrison. New York: Times Books, 2012.

  Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st sess. Washington, DC: John C. Rives, 1859–1860.

  Cutts, J. Madison. A Brief Treatise upon Constitutional and Party Questions. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866.

  Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States. Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1834.

  Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

  Douglas, Stephen. “The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority . . . ” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 19, June to November 1859.

  Dyer, Oliver. Great Senators of the United States Forty Years Ago. New York: Robert Bonner’s Sons, 1889.

  Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

  Everett, Edward. Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions. Boston: Little, Brown, 1868.

  Fehrenbacher, Don E. Prelude to Greatness. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962.

  Fehrenbacher, Don E., and Virginia Fehrenbacher. Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.

  Fischer, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.

  Foote, Henry S. Casket of Reminiscences. Washington, DC: Chronicle, 1874.

  Franklin, Benjamin. Writings. J. A. Leo Lemay, ed. New York: Library of America, 1987.

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

  Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs. New York: Penguin, 1999.

  Greeley, Horace. Recollections of a Busy Life. New York: J. B. Ford and Company, 1868.

  Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1999.

  Gurney, Eliza P. Memoir and Correspondence of Eliza P. Gurney. Richard F. Mott, ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1884.

  Hamilton, Alexander. Writings. Joanne Freeman, ed. New York: Library of America, 2001.

  Herz, Emanuel. The Hidden Lincoln. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940.

  Holzer, Harold. The Civil War in 50 Objects. New York: Viking, 2013.

  ———. The Lincoln Anthology. New York: Library of America, 1989.

  ———. Lincoln at Cooper Union. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

  Howe, Daniel Walker. The Political Culture of the American Whigs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

  Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

  Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of Military Operations. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874.

  Keane, John. Tom Paine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.

  Lehrman, Lewis E. Lincoln at Peoria. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008.

  Levasseur, Auguste. Lafayette in America. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1829.

  Lincoln Legal Briefs, Quarterly Newsletter of the Lincoln Legal Papers, January–March 1995, no.33.

  Lowry, Rich. Lincoln Unbound. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.

  Madison, James. Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. James McClellan and M. E. Bradford, eds. Richmond, VA: Jam
es River Press, 1989.

  ———. Writings. Jack N. Rakove, ed. New York: Library of America, 1999.

  Martineau, Harriet. Retrospect of Western Travel. London: Saunders and Otley, 1838.

  Miller, Richard Lawrence. “Lincoln’s ‘Suicide’ Poem: Has It Been Found?” For the People, a Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Spring 2004.

  Moore, John Bassett, ed. The Works of James Buchanan. John Bassett Moore, ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1910.

  Nasby, Petroleum V. The Nasby Papers. Indianapolis: C. O. Perrine, 1864.

  Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.

  Pinsker, Matthew. “Senator Abraham Lincoln.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14, no. 2 (1993).

  Register of Debates in Congress, 22nd Cong., 1st sess. Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1833.

  Rowland, Kate Mason. The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898.

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1946.

  Sheahan, James W. The Life of Stephen Douglas. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1860.

  Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904.

  Stephens, Alexander H. Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens. Myrta Lockett Avary, ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

  Strozier, Robert. Lincoln’s Quest for Union. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2001.

  Tarbell, Ida M. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Lincoln Memorial Association, 1895.

  Thomas, Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1993.

  Thoreau, Henry David. Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreau. Wendell Glick, ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

  Tocqueville, Alexis de. Journey to America. George Lawrence, trans.; J. P. Mayer, ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959.

  Tripp, C. A. The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

  Ward, Artemus. Artemus Ward: His Book. New York: Carleton, 1864.

  Washington, George. Writings. John Rhodehamel, ed. New York: Library of America, 1997.

  Weems, Mason Locke. Life of Washington. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1965.

  Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

  Wilson, Douglas L. Honor’s Voice. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.

  Wilson, Francis. John Wilkes Booth. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1929.

  Winthrop, Robert C. Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions. Boston: Little, Brown, 1852.

  Wood, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

  The World’s Orators. Guy Carlton Lee, ed. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901.

  INDEX

  Abolitionists, 168

  on lynchings, 65–66

  newspapers and, 62–63

  politics and, 49–50, 101

  Adams, Charles Francis, 181, 227

  Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 252, 297

  Adams, Henry, 214

  Adams, John, 26, 84, 162, 181, 184

  Adams, John Quincy, 26, 45, 84, 181, 227

  Adams, Samuel, 52

  Africa, 3

  The Age of Reason (Paine), 52, 53, 58, 156

  Agriculture, 95

  Alabama, 187

  Alexandria (Virginia), 212

  Alien and Sedition Acts, 185

  Allen, Ethan, 175–176

  American Civil War, 5, 201, 285

  duration of, 247

  proclamations during, 201, 289–290

  See also Confederacy; Union

  American Colonization Society, 100, 220

  American Party, 121–122, 172

  American Revolution, 118

  heroes and veterans of, 13–14, 25–26

  veterans of, 13–14

  American West, 116

  The American Crisis (Paine), 52

  Anaconda plan, 211, 214, 239, 248

  Argument from design, 30

  Aristotle, 61

  Arizona, 83, 220

  Arkansas, 109, 203

  Armstrong, Jack, 39–40, 43, 139–140

  Arnold, Benedict, 293

  Artillery, 4

  Atlanta, 254

  Baker, Edward, 78–79, 81, 189–190, 257, 281

  Baldwin, Abraham, 152–153

  Bank of the United States, 95

  Bates, Edward, 172, 175, 181, 219, 258

  Battle of Buena Vista, 81

  Battle of Cerro Gordo, 81

  Battle of Gettysburg, 8

  Battle of New Orleans, 45, 185, 212

  Battle of Shiloh, 215

  Battle of Trenton, 30–34, 52, 202, 212, 230, 243

  Bayne, Julia Taft, 270

  “The Bear Hunt” (Lincoln, Abraham), 60

  Bedell, Grace, 179, 206

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 144

  Beecher, Lyman, 78–79

  Bell, John, 177, 179

  Benjamin, Judah, 252

  Bible, 9, 53–56, 117–118, 126, 195

  content of, 269–270

  Proverbs of, 230

  reading of, 269–270

  Bixby, Lydia, 258, 265

  Black Hawk, 39

  Black Hawk War, 39–40

  Blacks, 39, 249–250, 288

  equality for, 133–134

  free, 38, 221

  as inferior race, 124

  suffrage and, 70

  See also Negroes

  Blair, Francis, Jr., 182, 221, 265

  Blair, Francis, Sr., 182, 221, 263–264

  Blair, Montgomery, 182, 211, 226, 254–255, 298

  Booth, Edwin, 291–292

  Booth, John Wilkes, 291–296

  Boritt, Gabor, 70

  Brady, Mathew, 205–206

  Breckinridge, John, 177, 179

  British Empire, 86–88

  Brooks, Noah, 258–259

  Brooks, Preston, 166–167, 281

  Brown, Christopher, 175

  Brown, John, 167–170, 186, 191, 196, 230, 281, 293–295

  Browne, Charles Farrar (Ward, Artemus), 225, 245

  Buchanan, James, 121–122, 127, 128–129, 131–132, 149, 176

  Buchaneers. See National Democrats

  Bull Run, 212

  See also Second Battle of Bull Run

  Burns, Robert, 59

  Burnside, Ambrose, 213–214

  Butler, Andrew, 166

  Butler, Benjamin, 222

  Byron, Lord, 59–60, 63–64, 261–262, 274, 291

  California, 83, 96–98, 106–107, 187

  Cameron, James, 257

  Cameron, Simon (Great Winnebago Chieftain), 173, 175, 182, 205, 218, 251, 257

  Camillus, 25

  Campbell, John, 286

  Canaan, 195

  Canada, 3

  Canal-building, 46–49

  Capitol, US, 83

  Careers, 3–5, 8

  congressman (1847), 81–87

  general store partner, 40, 44

  law, 37, 39, 43, 48, 75–78, 139–140

  military service, 39–40

  postmaster, 40, 41

  riverboat, 38–39

  store clerk, 39

  surveyor, 40

  See also Politics

  Caribbean, 130, 230

  Carpenter, Francis, 298

  Carroll, Charles, 1–2, 5, 17, 47

  Cartwright, Peter, 56, 79

  Cass, Lewis, 93–94

  Central America, 130, 210, 221, 298

  Chancellorsville, debacle of, 238

  “The Character of George Washington,” 178

  Chase, Salmon Portland, 172–173, 250–251, 255, 278

  allies of, 219, 287, 298

  as cabinet secretary, 182, 183, 218

  Chesnut, Mary, 198, 239, 277

  Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 63–64

  Chiriqui coast, 221, 288

  Christianity, 51–53, 56–57, 106

&n
bsp; Clay, Henry, 45, 113, 149, 196, 263

  American System and, 94–96

  death of, 98–101, 105, 117, 231

  eulogy for, 99–101, 117, 189, 242

  narrative of, 90

  politics and, 80–81, 89–94

  slavery and, 97–98

  Clay, John (Henry Clay’s son), 230–231

  Clay, Lucretia (Henry Clay’s wife/widow), 231, 241, 273

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, 225

  Clinton, Bill, 205

  Clinton, DeWitt, 47–48

  Coal, 221

  Cole, Thomas, 280–281

  Coles, Edward, 37–38, 159–162, 223

  Colonization, 126, 221

  Common Sense (Paine), 52

  Compromise of 1850, 99, 108

  Confederacy, 198, 212

  capital of, 211, 286

  collapse and surrender of, 285–291, 293, 295

  constitution of, 232

  Declaration of Independence and, 232–233

  end of, 264–265, 293

  losses of, 215–216, 248, 285–286

  subculture of, 210–211

  Confederate Congress, 193

  Confederate Constitution, 193–194

  Confiscation Act, second, 226

  Confiscation Act of 1861, 223

  Congress, US, 45, 206–207, 298

  houses of, 237

  powers of, 50, 146, 226

  sessions of, 207, 231, 298–299

  slavery and, 123

  Congress of the Articles of Confederation, 18, 190

  Constitution, US, 99–100, 125

  amendments to, 120, 123, 155, 191, 226, 236–237, 263, 265, 288–291, 299

  articles of, 49–50, 91, 209

  on executive power, 204

  habeas corpus and, 207–208

  liberty and, 230–231

  slavery and, 8, 49–50, 116–118, 135–137

  See also Preamble to Constitution

  Constitutional Convention (1787), 18, 154–155, 235, 287

  Continental Congress (1776), 162, 164, 190

  Cooke, Jay, 251

  Corning, Erastus, 208

  Crawford, Josiah, 27, 33

  Crawford, William, 45

  Crittenden, John, 210

  Cuba, 210, 298

  Curry, John Steuart, 168

  Curtis, Benjamin, 125

  Custis, Daniel Parke, 27

  Custis, George Washington Parke, 83–84

  Davis, David, 175

  Davis, Jefferson, 165, 193, 214, 222, 233, 263–264, 286

  Dayton, William, 122

  Decatur, Stephen, 68–69

  Declaration of Independence, 101, 267

 

‹ Prev