Part 74 (1/2)

”we highly disapprove...of the citizens”: Resolutions by the General a.s.sembly of the State of Illinois, quoted in note 2 of ”Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery,” March 3, 1837, in CW, I, p. 75.

he issued a formal protest...”people of said District”: ”Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery,” March 3, 1837, in ibid., p. 75. Daniel Stone of Springfield co-auth.o.r.ed the protest with Lincoln.

”if slavery...so think, and feel”: AL to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, draft copy, Lincoln Papers.

”partly on account...that it is now”: AL, ”Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, pp. 61, 65.

In these early years...gradually become extinct: For an example of Lincoln stating that he believed slavery would gradually become extinct, see AL, ”Speech at Greenville, Illinois,” September 13, 1858, in CW, III, p. 96.

Lincoln defended both slaveowners and fugitive slaves: Donald, Lincoln, p. 104.

the const.i.tutional requirements...could not be evaded: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 28.

a sustained recession...sentiment turned: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 6162; Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, p. 28.

”stopping a skift...go down”: AL, ”Remarks in the Illinois Legislature Concerning the Illinois and Michigan Ca.n.a.l,” January 22, 23, 1840, in CW, I, p. 196.

”If you make...the tighter”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842, in ibid., p. 280 (quote); Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, p. 30.

was forced to liquidate...deterred from emigrating: King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 40.

to win a fourth term...term was completed: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 77; entry for August 3, 1840, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 18091865. Vol. I, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), p. 142.

”He was not very fond of girls”: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 108.

”He would burst...'clean those girls look'”: AL, quoted in William H. Herndon, ”a.n.a.lysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly I (September 1941), p. 367.

”as demoralized...out of sight”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 59.

”a business which I do not understand”: AL to Mrs. M. J. Green, September 22, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 118.

”...when the genius of”: Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1927; 1990), p. 189.

”Lincoln had...his terrible pa.s.sion”: WHH to JWW, January 23, 1890, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.

”his Conscience...many a woman”: David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, p. 350.

”handsome...much vivacity”: Esther Sumners Bale interview, [1866], in ibid., p. 527 (first quote); Nancy G. Vineyard to JWW, February 4, 1887, in ibid., p. 601 (second quote).

”a good conversationalist...splendid reader”: Benjamin R. Vineyard to JWW, March 14, 1887, in ibid., p. 610.

would make a good match...honor-bound to keep his word: AL to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838, in CW, I, pp. 11719.

”This thing of living...Yours, &c.-Lincoln”: AL to Mary S. Owens, May 7, 1837, in ibid., pp. 7879.

”mortified almost beyond...enough to have me”: AL to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838, in ibid., p. 119.

The Edwards mansion...drink, and merry conversation: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 5.

”the exact reverse”: Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 165.