All the Powers of Earth

by Sidney Blumenthal

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  ——— . Speeches of Senator S.A. Douglas. Washington, D.C.: Lemuel Towers, 1859.

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  ——— . The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miscellanies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883.

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  ——— . Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850’s. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962.

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  ——— . Eulogy upon the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Philadelphia: Kingwalt & Brown, 1861.

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  ——— . Recollections of a Busy Life. New York: J.B. Ford, 1868.

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  ——— . Trimmers, Trucklers & Temporizers: Notes of MURAT HALSTEAD from the Political Conventions of 1856, eds., William B. Hesseltine and Rex G. Fisher. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1961.

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  ——— . Herndon’s Life of Lincoln. Cleveland: World, 1942.

  ——— . Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Springfield, Ill.: Herndon’s Lincoln Publishing, 1888.

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  ——— . Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote. New York: Viking, 1939.

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  ——— . The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860.

  Hoar, George Frisbie. Autobiography of Seventy Years. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903.

  Hoffer, William James. The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

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  Holst, Hermann von. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1854–1856. Chicago: Callaghan, 1885.

  Holt, Michael F. The Election of 1860. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017.

  ——— . The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  Holzer, Harold. Lincoln and the Power of the Press. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

  ——— . Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

  ——— . Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

  House of Representatives. Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas. Washington, D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1856.

  Howland, Louis. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Scribner, 1920.

  Hudson, J. Blaine. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002.

  Huston, James L. The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War. Baton Rouge: University of Louisiana Press, 1999.

  ——— . James L. Huston, Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

  Irelan, John Robert. History of the Life, Administration, and Times of Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth President of the United States. Chicago: Fairbanks & Palmer.

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  Johannsen, Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

  Johnson, Allen. Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics. New York: Macmillan, 1908.

  Johnston, Richard Malcolm, and William Hand Browne. Life of Alexander H. Stephens. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1884.

  Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

  Julian, George W. The Life of Joshua R. Giddings. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1892.

  Karcher, Carolyn L. The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992.

  Kendrick, Stephen, and Paul Kendrick. Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

  King, Willard L. Lincoln’s Manager David Davis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.

  Klein, Philip S. President James Buchanan. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962.

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  Kyle, Otto R. Lincoln in Decatur. New York: Vantage Press, 1957.

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  Longfellow, Samuel. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891.

  Loring, James Spear. The Hundred Boston Orators. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852.

  Luthin, Reinhard H. The First Lincoln Campaign. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944.

  ——— . The Real Abraham Lincoln. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

  Lynch, Jeremiah. The Life of David C. Broderick: A Senator of the Fifties. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1911.

  Magdol, Edward. Owen Lovejoy: Abolitionist in Congress. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967.

  Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth. The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

  Mason, Virginia. The Public Life and Diplomatic Correspondence of James M. Mason. New York: Neale Publishing, 1906.

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  Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.

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  ——— . Colonel Alexander K. McClure’s Recollection of Half a Century. Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1902.

  ——— . “Curtin Elected Governor—1860,” in Life and Times of Andrew Gregg Curtin, William H. Egle, ed. Philadelphia: Thompson Publishing, 1896.

  ——— . Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1905.

  McCulloch, Hugh. Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Comments. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889.

  McMaster, John Bach. A History of the People of the United States. New York: D. Appleton, 1913.

  McMillen, Sally Gregory. Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

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  ——— . William Cullen Bryant: Poet of America. Albany: State University Press of New York, 2008.

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  Nichols, Roy F. The Disruption of American Democracy. New York: Macmillan, 1948.

  ——— . Roy F. Nichols, Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931.

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  Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.

  ——— . The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

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