"our adversaries...to the charge": AL to Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 86.

this election would not be determined...carefully addressed in the Republican Party platform: Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pp. 13 (quote), 14853.

an entourage: Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 461; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 23233.

"cannons...'Wide Awakes'": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 461; Oldroyd, Lincoln's Campaign, pp. 10407.

"Viewed from...in wild cheerings": "Springfield Correspondence, 9 August 1860," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 6.

the "Chloroformers": Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 174.

"procession of young men...carts and wagons": Entry for September 8, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.

"All of this reminded...a gaping crowd": Ibid.

In St. Paul, Minnesota...steps of the Capitol: Press and Tribune, Chicago, September 24, 1860.

"without repet.i.tion...of the auditors": Fite, The First Presidential Campaign, p. 213.

"the whole population...Well, I ought to": Supplement to NYT, September 29, 1860.

"where, when...'this tobacco question'": Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915: An Autobiography, with a Memorial Address Delivered November 17, 1915, by Henry Cabot Lodge (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), pp. 6162.

"integrity...grandest & highest": Israel Washburn, Jr., to WHS, November 14, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

"I am sure...taken a-back by": Richard Blatchford to FAS, October 3, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

"marveled more & more...by any American": CS to FAS, October 10, 1860, reel 60, Seward Papers.

"Yes Henry is...Is that the word": FAS to CS, September 5, 1860, reel 20, Sumner Papers.

"There was a rush...Seward was seated": NYH, October 2, 1860.

"was a revelation...out of place": Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915, pp. 61, 64 (quote).

"Twelve years ago...believed that it would be": NYH, October 2, 1860.

Lincoln asked..."it already existed": King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 157.

Seward readily agreed...intercourse with the South: NYT, September 27, 1860; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 233.

"noisy throng...approaching greatness": Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams, 18351915, pp. 6768.

"Remembering that Peter...I will not": AL to Lyman Trumbull, June 5, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 71.

a humorous fictional dialogue: AL, "Dialogue between Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge," September 29, 1860, in ibid., pp. 12324.

"I give the leave...in any respect": AL to William D. Kelley, October 13, 1860, in ibid., p. 127.

"for your face...like whiskers": Grace Bedell to AL, October 15, 1860, in ibid., p. 130.

"As to the whiskers...begin it now?": AL to Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860, in ibid., p. 129.

"Election news...heir apparent": "Springfield Correspondence, 7 January 1861," in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 17.

biased...prospects in each state: AL to John Pett.i.t, September 14, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 115.

"the dry, and irksome...monster meetings": AL to Henry Wilson, September 1, 1860, in ibid., p. 109.

Schurz's "excellent plan...than yourself": AL to Carl Schurz, June 18, 1860, in ibid., p. 78.

He urged Caleb Smith...an Indiana victory: AL to Caleb Smith, [July 23], 1860, in ibid., pp. 8788.

"Ascertain...commit me to nothing": AL, "Instructions for John G. Nicolay," [c. July 16, 1860], in ibid., p. 83.

"Before this reaches...into the news-papers": AL to Simon Cameron, August 6, 1860, in ibid., p. 91.

Cameron replied...writings: Simon Cameron to AL, August 1, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

"I am slow...present & future only": AL to John M. Pomeroy, August 31, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 103.

"Write Mr. Casey...in that matter": AL to Leonard Swett, July 16, 1860, in ibid., p. 84.

"After all...Sebastopol we must take": John Z. Goodrich, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 205.

"such a result...must not allow it": AL to Hannibal Hamlin, September 4, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 110.

"intimating that Douglas...Please write me": AL to James F. Simmons, August 17, 1860, in ibid., p. 97.

"tomorrow is...of the Country": David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 158.

"he was trying...the presidential Election": Ward Hill Lamon to AL, October 10, 1860, Lincoln Papers.

"We are all in...be the next Pres't": David Davis to Sarah Davis, October 12, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

"I never was better...any trouble": David Davis to Sarah Davis, October 15, 1860, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

With pride..."have the trial": MTL to Hannah Shearer, October 20, 1860, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 66.

Douglas had been barnstorming...to the South: Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 77881, 78697 (quotep. 781).

"the first presidential...in person": Paul F. Boller, Jr., Presidential Campaigns (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 101.

"Mr. Lincoln is the next...I will go South": Stephen A. Douglas, quoted in Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 79798.

"finest hour": Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 18571861, p. 290.

"I believe there is...must be inaugurated": Stephen A. Douglas, quoted in Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, p. 800.