233 "of public opinion': CW, 3:423.

233 "against the negro": CW, 3:431.

233 "and the reptile": CW, 3:425.

233 "country is everything": CW, 3:424.

233 "the miners and sappers": CW, 3:423.

233 "their own labor": CW, 3:446.

234 "in the world": CW, 3:477478. For Wayland's influence on Lincoln, see Gabor S. Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1978), pp. 122124. Most Republican leaders shared Lincoln's belief in the labor theory of value. Heather C. Richardson, "Constructing 'the Greatest Nation of the Earth': Economic Policies of the Republican Party During the American Civil War" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1992), esp. chap. 1.

234 "his early condition": CW, 10:43.

234 upward social mobility: David R. Wrone, "Abraham Lincoln's Idea of Property," Science and Society 33 (Winter 1969): 5470.

234 "or kick understandingly: CW, 3:479.

235 "free white people": CW, 2:268. Such use would presumably exclude both slaves and free blacks. Johannsen, Lincoln, the South, and Slavery, p. 33.

235 "to go there": CW, 10:45.

235 "President or vice": G. W. Rives to O. M. Hatch, Nov. 11, 1858, Hatch MSS, ISHL.

235 Reading (Pennsylvania) Journal: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 5162.

235 "me as President": Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 18351890 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904), 1:97. Residents of Illinois were often referred to as "Suckers."

235 archrival, Judd: Chicago Democrat, Nov. 11, 1858.

236 movement in Ohio: CW, 3:377, 395.

236 "habit of doing": E.A. Studley to O. M. Hatch, Sept. 7, 1859, Hatch MSS, ISHL.

237 a best-seller: The best account of the publishing history of this volume is David C. Mearns's introduction to The Illinois Political Campaign of 1858: A Facsimile of the Printer's Copy of His Debates with Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas as Edited and Prepared for the Press by Abraham Lincoln (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1958). For discussions of the various editions of the debates, see LL, no. 337 (Sept. 23, 1935); R. Gerald McMurtry, The Different Editions of the "Debates of Lincoln and Douglas" (pamphlet reprinted from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1934); and Jay Monaghan, Lincoln Bibliography, 18391939 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1943), 1:1820.

237 "much of me".CW, 3:511512.

237 in February 1860: Andrew A. Freeman, Abraham Lincoln Goes to New York (New York: Coward-McCann, 1960), gives a detailed account of Lincoln's visit.

237 Woods & Henckle, $100: Day by Day, 2:271.

238 stop-Seward movement: Randall, Lincoln the President, 1:135.

238 called his "shaddow": CW, 4:39.

238 "than his father": Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Browne & Howell Co., 1913), 1:217.