Part 82 (1/2)
”The crisis is pa.s.sed-the cloud is gone”: Lewis Ca.s.s quoted in NYH, September 10, 1850.
”The elements...but never overcome”: Columbus [Ga.] Sentinel, reprinted in Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, January 23, 1851.
”devotion to...inclined them”: AL, ”Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, p. 253.
Rejecting Seward's concept...: AL, ”Endors.e.m.e.nt on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat,” [May 17, 1860], in CW, IV, p. 50.
He relished the convivial life: Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union, p. 144.
”The local belles...and eloquence”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 63.
”plenty of bedbugs”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 1, 1851, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 77.
”half an inch thick”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, April 24, 1851, David Davis Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Ill. [hereafter Davis Papers, ALPLM].
slept two to a bed...in a room: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 62.
David Davis: See King, Lincoln's Manager, esp. pp. 913, 17, 61.
”warm-hearted” nature: David Davis to Sarah Davis, November 3, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
”exceeding honesty & fairness”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, March 23, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM. 150 ”too well to thwart her views”: David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 42.
the judge's letters about Lincoln: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 3 and October 20, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM.
”He arrogated...personal affection”: Unidentified lawyer, quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 247.
At mealtimes...prisoners out on bail: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, pp. 63, 72.
”such of us...those who have”: AL, ”Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Was.h.i.+ngton Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in CW, I, p. 278.
”in full laugh till near daylight”: WHH to ”Mr. N.,” February 4, 1874, Grandview [Ind.] Monitor, March 15, 1934, quoted in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 18 n67.
”eyes would sparkle...than his”: Jonathan Birch, ”A Student Who Was Aided by Mr. Lincoln,” in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 105.
Ethan Allen/George Was.h.i.+ngton story: Abner Y. Ellis statement, January 23, 1866, in HI, p. 174.
”who had a great...'than that dress'”: John Usher interview with George Alfred Townsend, December 25, 1878, sc.r.a.pbook, Papers of George Alfred Townsend, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.
”is the nature...is cradled”: Walter Benjamin, ”The Storyteller,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968; New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p. 91.
”Would we do...thought and experience”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 66.
”It makes human nature...is possible”: AL on George Was.h.i.+ngton, quoted in ibid., p. 67.
When the court closed...throughout the weekend: Jesse W. Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), p. 90.
”wondered at it...pleasant, inviting homes”: David Davis, quoted in Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 249.
”as happy as...no other place”: David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, p. 349.