Part 92 (1/2)
”I think it is...into Liberty”: James A. Briggs to AL, November 1, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
The crowds that greeted...”many a day”: Janesville Gazette, quoted in Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 11011 (quote p. 110).
”Douglasism...of Republicanism”: AL to SPC, September 21, 1859, in CW, III, p. 471.
stop was Cincinnati: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 10307.
”greeted with...rising star”: d.i.c.kson, ”Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati,” Harper's New Monthly (1884), p. 65.
Lincoln's speech in Cincinnati: AL, ”Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio,” September 17, 1859, in CW, III, p. 454.
”as an effort...had ever heard”: Cincinnati Gazette, reprinted in Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., October 7, 1859.
Lincoln's crowded schedule...”the women come”: Joshua F. Speed to AL, September 22, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
”Your visit to Ohio...in your favor”: Samuel Galloway to AL, October 13, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
”We must take...are my choice”: Samuel Galloway to AL, July 23, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
”to hedge against...we shall disagree”: AL to Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859, in CW, III, pp. 39091.
Colfax appreciated...”throughout the Union”: Schuyler Colfax to AL, July 14, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
”with foolish pikes”: Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1927; 1955), p. 52.
John Brown at Harpers Ferry: See chapter 19 of Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 290306.
”I am waiting...& of humanity”: John Brown to his family, November 30, 1859, quoted in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 18001859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910), p. 551.
the dignity...eloquence of his statements: Villard, John Brown, 18001859, pp. 53839.
His death...”resolutions were adopted”: Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, p. 378.
”sent a s.h.i.+ver of fear...woman, and child”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, October 22, 1859.
”Harper's Ferry...dissolution must ensue”: Richmond Enquirer, November 25, 1859.
”like a great...that abyss”: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 309.
”Weird John Brown”: Herman Melville, ”The Portent,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, reprinted in The Poems of Herman Melville, rev. edn., ed. Douglas Robillard (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 2000), p. 53.
”I do not exaggerate...in great numbers”: Robert Bunch, December 9, 1859, quoted in Laura A. White, ”The South in the 1850's as Seen by British Consuls,” Journal of Southern History I (February 1935), p. 44.
”for seditious...in a good cause”: Editor's description of St. Louis News article of November 23, 1859, pasted in entry of November 23, 1859, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 65.
”the natural fruits...his subordinates”: Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, December 16, 1859.
”one hundred gentlemen”...and Colfax: Advertis.e.m.e.nt by ”Richmond,” quoted in Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18461861, p. 440.
”The first overt act...the Shenandoah”: NYH, October 19, 1859.