209 "it now exists": John Locke Scripps to AL, June 22, 1858, Lincoln MSS, LC.

209 "so intended it": CW, 2:471.

209 "foolish one perhaps": CW, 2:491.

209 "be hardly won": John W. Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873), 2:179.

210 "an unholy, unnatural alliance": Johannsen, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, pp. 2236.

210 "throughout the world": CW, 2:500501.

210 "in his wake": Edwin Erie Sparks, ed., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1908), p. 46.

210 "the very thing": CW, 3:84.

210 on the defensive: N. B. Judd to Lyman Trumbull, July 16, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

210 "Lincoln the leavings": W. J. Usrey to AL, July 19, 1858, Lincoln MSS, LC.

211 a considerable audience: Sparks, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, pp. 5657.

211 "come from you": CW, 2:529.

212 "his own success": WHH to Lyman Trumbull, July 8, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

212 counties was needed. Harry E. Pratt, The Great Debates of 1858 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1956), pp. 89.

212 had been strongest: For these careful calculations, see CW, 2:476481, 503.

212 "to the abolitionists": Beveridge, 2:555.

212 "and public justice": J.J. Crittenden to AL, July 29, 1858, Lincoln MSS, LC.

213 "to any extent": CW, 2:471472.

213 with the Danites: WHH to Lyman Trumbull, June 24, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

213 "going to do": WHH to Lyman Trumbull, July 8, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

213 "he does not": WHH to Lyman Trumbull, June 24, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

213 Democrats' campaign strategy: Jesse K. Dubois to AL, Sept. 7, 1858, Lincoln MSS, LC.

213 have been true: A. Sherman to O. M. Hatch, Sept. 27, 1858, Hatch MSS, ISHL.

214 3,400 by train: Pratt, The Great Debates, p. 5.

214 and in expression: For an excellent account of the reporting of the debates, which stresses the distortion caused by partisan reporting, see Harold Holzer's introduction to The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993). Also valuable are Tom Reilly, "Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 Forced New Role on the Press," Journalism Quarterly 56 (Winter 1979): 734743, 752; Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), pp. 2130; and Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, pp. 7584.