170 "into free territory": CW, 2:227.

170 "Yates to congress": CW, 4:67.

171 "as english-vote": CW, 2:284.

171 "not taste liquor": CW, 10:24.

171 Yates as well: Franklin T. King to WHH, Sept. 12, 1890, HWC.

171 "might the Democrats": Pinsker, "If You Know Nothing," p. 65.

172 "and that's enough": WHH, interview with William Jayne, Aug. 15, 1866, HWC.

172 "injurious to yourself": CW, 2:228.

173 "don't drink anything": Paul M. Angle, ed., Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him (Chicago: Americana House, 1950), p. 43.

173 "points and arguments": George Fort Milton, The Eve of Conflict: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934), p. 180.

174 "intelligent, and attentive": Journal, Oct. 5, 1854.

174 "the palms up": WHH, "Lincoln's Ways-Methods-Positions-Pose etc when Rising to Address ... the People," undated monograph, HWC.

174 "cla.s.s of men": CW, 2:248. Because Lincoln's speech in Springfield was not fully reported, it is easier to follow his argument in the version of the same address that he delivered on Oct. 16 at Peoria. Quotations in the following paragraphs, unless otherwise identified, are from the Peoria speech.

175 "slavery, than we": CW, 2:255.

175 "be safely disregarded": CW, 2:256.

175 "ace of pa.s.sing": Ibid.

175 "a palliation-a lullaby": CW, 2:262.

175 "is a man": CW, 2:265.

176 "legislating about him".: CW, 2:281.

176 "of American republicanism": CW, 2:266.

176 "arguments at all": CW, 2:283.

176 "spread of slavery": CW, 2:255, 266.

176 "a given time": CW, 2:274.

176 "near stifling utterance": Journal, Oct. 10, 1854.

177 "of these States": CW, 2:126.