269 "of physical power": For a thorough a.n.a.lysis, see Thomas J. Pressly, "Bullets and Ballots: Lincoln and the 'Right of Revolution,'" American Historical Review 67 (Apr. 1962): 647662.

269 "the essence of anarchy": CW, 4:268.

269 "dissolution or dismemberment": Nicolay and Hay, 3:248.

269 "as it is": CW, 4:154.

269 political beliefs rested: After the Civil War, Alexander H. Stephens wrote that Lincoln's devotion to the Union rose to the sublimity of religious mysticism, and his phrase has often been echoed by historians. See esp. Edmund Wilson's brilliant essay on Lincoln in Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), pp. 99130. But in reviewing a draft of the present book, Mark E. Neely, Jr., pointed out that Stephens's phrase was intended not as praise of Lincoln but as criticism of an unrealistic belief. There was, Neely suggests, little that was mystical in Lincoln's thinking about the Union, which he valued for realistic, tough-minded reasons.

269 "our friends South": Lyman Trumbull to AL, Dec. 14, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC. See also Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis, chap. 5.

269 should be repealed: CW, 4:156157.

269 "were hedged against": CW, 4:183

270 "any time hereafter": CW, 4:149150.

270 "principle in it": Harry E. Pratt, ed., Concerning Mr. Lincoln: In Which Abraham Lincoln Is Pictured as He Appeared to Letter Writers of His Time (Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1944), p. 42.

270 "up his mind": WHH, Mrs. Lincoln's Denial, and What She Says, broadside dated Jan. 12, 1874, Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society.

270 "he is stubborn": William Jayne to Lyman Trumbull, Jan. 21, 1861, Trumbull MSS, LC.

270 the President-elect: Thomas D. Jones, Memories of Lincoln (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934), pp. 78.

270 "was ever delivered": WHH to Jesse W. Weik, Jan. 1, 1886, HWC.

270 criticism of friends: Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 1:403404.

270 "an ambitious little woman": Annie d.i.c.kson's postscript on William M. d.i.c.kson to AL, May 21, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.

271 "she can be": Pratt, Concerning Mr. Lincoln, p. 32.

271 suspected social slights: Jones, Memories of Lincoln, pp. 12-13.

271 "by iron hoops": Milton H. Shutes, Lincoln's Emotional Life (Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1957), p. 128.

271 deserved special treatment: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 191193.

271 "talent and experience": Villard and Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 50.

271 "hurt pretty bad": Charles H. Coleman, Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois (New Brunswick, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1955), pp. 198199.

271 "each other again": WHH, interview with Mrs. Thomas Lincoln, Sept. 9, 1865, HWC; A. H. Chapman to WHH, Oct. 8, 1865, ibid. For a detailed account of this visit, see Coleman, Lincoln and Coles County, pp. 191210.

272 "of the area": Day by Day, 3:9.

272 "to New York": New York Herald, Feb. 16, 1861.