58 "of the people": Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness, p. 34.

59 "interest on it": CW, 1:48.

59 "means excluding females": Ibid.

59 in the militia: Faragher, Sugar Creek (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 106.

60 "a good wringing": CW, 8:429.

60 "an offended G.o.d": Joshua F. Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California: Two Lectures (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., 1884), pp. 1718.

60 to vote for him: Mark E. Neely, Jr., "The Political Life of New Salem, Illinois," LL, no. 1715 (Jan. 1981).

60 their floor leader: Once again, my account of Lincoln in this session of the legislature is drawn from Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness, with additional information from Baringer, Lincoln's Vandalia.

61 something to everybody: For a full, disapproving account, see Pease, The Frontier State, chap. 10.

61 "of the United States": Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness, pp. 84, 86.

61 total state revenues: Ibid., p. 52.

62 "seat of government": Usher F. Linder, Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar of Illinois (Chicago: Chicago Legal News Co., 1879), pp. 6263.

62 or a bribe: Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness, chap. 4, definitively explodes this myth. See also Gabor S. Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1978), pp. 811.

63 "hitherto found security": CW, 1:6169.

63 "the shot home": Baringer, Lincoln's Vandalia, p. 99.

64 "abate its evils": CW, 1:75.

64 lobby doubtful members: Robert L. Wilson to WHH, Feb. 10, 1866, HWC.

64 "Natures n.o.blemen": Ibid.

64 the Supreme Court: Paul M. Angle, "Where Lincoln Practiced Law," Lincoln Centennial a.s.sociation Papers, 1927 (Springfield, III.: Lincoln Centennial a.s.sociation, 1927), p. 19.

CHAPTER THREE: COLD, CALCULATING, UNIMPa.s.sIONED REASON

Paul M. Angle, "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln's Springfield, 18211865 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1950), is a superior social history. The three best books on Lincoln's law practice are Albert A. Woldman, Lawyer Lincoln (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936); John J. Duff, A. Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1960); and John P. Frank, Lincoln as a Lawyer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), but a reappraisal of this topic is needed in light of the vast amount of doc.u.mentary sources collected by the Lincoln Legal Papers in Springfield. Gabor S. Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1978), is an important study of Lincoln's Whig philosophy and of his role in the campaign of 1840. The standard works on Lincoln's courtship and marriage are by Ruth Painter Randall: Mary Lincoln. Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953), and The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1957).

66 "I am moved!": Joshua F. Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California: Two Lectures (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., 1884), pp. 2122.

67 a frontier town: The following sketch of Springfield is drawn from Paul M. Angle, "Here I Have Lived" pp. 4246, and Beveridge, 1:206208.

67 "to marry her": WHH, interview with Mentor Graham, April 1,1866, HWC; Beveridge, 1:155.