205 did Lincoln himself: CW, 2:472.

205 the second time: Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 79.

205 "of the const.i.tution": Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 49.

205 "than anything else": CW, 2:472.

205 "Stephen A. Douglas": Beveridge, 2:571572.

206 "what we struck": WHH to Lyman Trumbull, June 24, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

206 his acceptance speech: It was not technically that. In the debates that followed, Lincoln told Douglas that if he examined the speech he would "find no acceptance in it." CW, 3:120.

206 "see it now": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:397. Herndon wrote several variants of this story, differing chiefly as to when Dubois interrupted Lincoln.

206 to Robert Hayne: Richard Nelson Current, Speaking of Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Meaning for Our Times (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), pp. 1112.

206 "well as South": CW, 2:461462. After delivering this speech, Lincoln went to the Illinois State Journal office and carefully oversaw the printed version that appeared in that paper. The paragraphing is, therefore, exactly what he wanted, and the italics indicate the words he emphasized in delivering the speech. Even so, the account of the speech in the Journal, which is followed in most editions of Lincoln's writings, is not entirely correct. See Don E. Fehrenbacher, Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987), esp. pp. 275277, 279280.

206 of the Gospels: Matthew 12:25, Mark 3:25, and Luke 11:17.

207 or all free: Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery, p. 44.

207 "and half free?": CW, 2:318.

207 "and part free": T. Lyle d.i.c.key to WHH, Dec. 8, 1866, HWC.

207 "issue before us": CW, 2:453454. For the dating of this fragment, see Robert W. Johannsen, Lincoln, the South and Slavery: The Political Dimension (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991), p. 59n.

207 plan or blueprint: CW, 2:465466.

208 "a slave State": CW, 2:467.

208 "just like him": AL to "Dear Sir," incomplete draft of a letter, [early 1858], MS auctioned by Frank H. Boos Gallery, Detroit, 1994.

208 "of splendid success": CW, 2:383.

208 "not do that": Joseph Gillespie, statement, Apr. 22, 1880, John J. Hardin MSS, Chicago Historical Society.

208 as a "squabble": CW, 2:463.

208 justices would rule: Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case, pp. 444447.

209 "shall not fail": CW, 2:467468.

209 "to say so?": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:398. Perhaps Herndon did say this, though very shortly afterward he was writing to Theodore Parker that Lincoln's speech was a little too conservative. Herndon to Theodore Parker, July 8, 1858, Herndon-Parker MSS, University of Iowa Library.

209 "of the times": WHH, interview with John Armstrong, undated, HWC. By this point Herndon had reconsidered his objections and was the only member of this little group to urge Lincoln to make the speech, predicting-if belated memories can be trusted-"Lincoln, deliver that speech as read and it will make you President." Herndon's Lincoln, 2:400. Cf. WHH to Jesse W. Weik, Oct. 29, 1885, HWC.