Authors: Bruce Chadwick
267
.
Illinois State Journal
, October 27, 1858,
New York Evening Post
, October 21, 1858.
268
.
Cincinnati Commercial
, July 12, 1858.
269
.
New York Herald
, July 27, 1858, Beveridge 1:628.
270
. Basler, 3:186–188;
Weekly North-Western Gazette
, August 21, 1858.
271
. Beveridge, 1:570;
Quincy Whig
, June 3, 1858, Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Canisius, May 17, 1859, Lincoln Papers.
272
. Angle, xvii.
273
. Lincoln to Gustave Koerner, July 15, 1858, Basler, 2:502.
274
. Zarefsky,
Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate
, 24; Angle, x.
275
. Donald, 211.
276
. Angle, xii, xvi.
277
. John Updike, “Such a Sucker as Me,”
New Yorker
, October 30, 1995.
278
. Basler, 2:247–248.
279
. Basler, 1:382–383.
280
. Basler, 2:551–553.
281
. Abraham Lincoln speech of December 26, 1839, Basler, 1:177.
282
. Carl Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1926), vol. I & II combined, 2:126.
283
.
Illinois State Journal
, June 3, 1856; Horace White, in William Herndon and Jesse Weik,
Life of Lincoln: The Historical and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln as Originally Written by William Herndon and Jesse Weik, with Introduction and Notes by Paul Angle
(Cleveland: World Publishing, 1949), 10–22.
284
.
Sangamon Journal
, January 3, 1840;
Boston Daily Advertiser
, September 12, 1848.
285
. James Putnam to Leonard Swett, July 20, 1860, Abraham Lincoln Papers.
286
. Zarefsky, 35–36; Mildred Berry, “Abraham Lincoln,” in Henry Brigance, ed.,
A History and Criticism of American Political Address
(New York: Russel and Russel Co., 1960), 829, 850; Jeremiah Bonham,
Fifty Years Recollections
(Peoria, Illinois: Franks Co., 1883), 159–160.
287
. Herndon and Weik, II:294–297, Allen Rice, ed.,
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time
(New York: North American Review Publishing, 1886), 479– 480.
288
.
New York Evening Post
, August 27, 1858.
289
. Frederick Meserve and Carl Sandburg,
The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
(New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944), 6; Herndon and Weik, I:xxvi.
290
. Sigelschiffer, 152.
291
. Basler, 3:84, Sigelschiffer, 203.
292
.
Illinois State Register
, September 10, 1858.
293
.
Lowell Journal and Courier
, August 24, 1858.
294
.
Illinois State Register
, August 2, 1858.
295
.
Illinois State Journal
, August 3, 1858;
Illinois State Register
, July 31, 1858.
296
. Stephen Douglas to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1858, Sparks 3:70, Sparks, 3:59–60.
297
.
New York Evening Post
, quoted in the
Rockford Republican
, September 9, 1858, Angle, xxviii,
Chicago Times
, July 11, 1858.
298
. Milton, 312.
299
. Beveridge, 596–598.
300
. Milton, 317.
301
. Zarefsky, 30; Herndon and Weik, 2:73, 93–94.
302
. Zarefsky, 29.
303
. Beveridge, 1:592; Johanssen, 643.
304
.
Washington Union
, July 20, 27, May 27, August 3, 8, 17, September 3, 15, 1858, in Johannsen, 646; Milton, 294–295,
Quincy Daily Whig
, July 21, 1858.
305
. Zarefsky, 13–15; Thomas Harris to Charles Lamphier, May 21, 1858; Milton, 301–302.
306
. Johanssen, 649.
307
. Jeremiah Black to J. W. Davidson, August 1, 1858,
House Reports
, 36
th
Congressional 1
st
Session, No. 648, 323–324;
Jonesboro Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1858, in Johanssen, 647.
308
.
New York Post
, August 18, 1858;
Philadelphia North American
, August 25, 1858;
Philadelphia Press
, November 4, 1858;
New York Herald
, November 5, 1858.
309
. Don Fehrenbacher,
Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962), 112–113; Milton, 328.
310
.
Illinois State Journal
, August 6, 1858;
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
, August 5, 1858.
311
. Stephen Douglas to Usher Linder, August 1858, Johannsen,
Letters
, 427.
312
. Angle,
Created Equal
?, 90.
313
. Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Sympson, October 24, 1858, Basler 3:332, Milton, 329.
314
. Johannsen, 652;
New Orleans Crescent
, reprinted in the
Buffalo Republican
, October 26, 1858.
315
. John Forney to Stephen Douglas, February 14, 1858, February 16, 1858, Douglas Papers.
316
. John McClernand to Stephen Douglas, February 17, 1858,
Letters
, 417n.
317
.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, from Illinois reports, November 1, 1858.
318
. J.A. de Carteret to Douglas, October 12, 1858, Douglas Papers.
319
.
New York Evening Post
, August 24, 1858.
320
. Holzer, 1.
321
.
Chicago Press and Tribune
, August 23, 26, 1858;
Chicago Times
, August 22, 1858.
322
. Basler, 2:541; Angle, 13–14; Holzer, 268.
323
. Herndon and Weik, 2:74–77.
324
. George Putnam,
Abraham Lincoln
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1909), 44–45.
325
. Henry Villard,
Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835–1900
, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1904), 1:92–93.
326
. Holzer, 16–17; Nicolay and Hay, 1:108, 303.
327
. Sigelschiffer, 160–161; James Rhodes,
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan Co., 1902), 2:128; George McConnell,
Recollections of Stephen A. Douglas
(Springfield, Illinois: State Historical Society Transactions, 1900), 41;
Louisville Democrat
, September 5, 1858.
328
. Allan Nevins, ed.,
The Diary of John Quincy Adams
, 1794–1845 (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), 566; Schurz,
Reminiscences
, 2:95.
329
. Stephen Douglas to Samuel Treat, February 28, 1858, Johannsen,
Letters of Stephen Douglas
, 418; Douglas to Abraham Lincoln, July 24, 1858, Johannsen,
Letters
, 423–424.
330
.
Centreville (Indiana) True Republican
, September 2, 1858.
331
.
Chicago Press and Tribune
, August 23, 1858.
332
. McPherson, 186–187; Angle, 117.
333
.
Freeport Weekly Bulletin
, August 26, 1858;
Chicago Press and Tribune
, August 26, 1858;
Daily Pantagraph
, August 24, 1858;
Jacksonville (Ill.) Sentinel
, August 27, 1858.
334
.
New York Evening Post
, September 9, 1858;
New York Tribune
, September 27, 1858.
335
.
Peoria (Ill.) Transcript
, August 24, 1858.
336
. Joseph Newton,
Lincoln and Herndon
(Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1910), 208.
337
. Angle, 180–181.
338
.
Rockford Republican
, September 2, 1858;
Illinois State Journal
, August 30, September 1, 1858; Holzer, 88.
339
. James Sheahan,
The Life of Stephen Douglas
(New York: Harper Bros., 1860), 169; Beveridge, 1:617.
340
.
Congressional Globe
, December 23, 1851, 32nd Congress, 1st session, 66.
341
. John Nicolay and John Hay, 160.
342
. Sparks,
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
, 145.
343
.
Galesburg Semi-Weekly Democrat
, September 1, 1858;
Alton Weekly Courier
, September 2, 1858.
344
.
Illinois State Journal
, August 30, 1858.
345
. Lincoln speech at Charleston, Basler 3:145–146.
346
. Sandburg, 159.
347
. Lincoln’s Alton speech, October 15, 1858, Basler, 3:315.
348
. Basler, 3:146;
Illinois State Journal
, November 1, 1858.
349
. Abraham Lincoln to Norman Judd, October 20, 1858, in John Nicolay and John Hay,
The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln
(New York: Frances D. Tandy Co., 1905), 12 vols., 3:329–330;
Mississippian
, September 14, 1858.
350
.
Portland (Me.) Transcript
, October 23, 1858.
351
. James Buchanan to John Forney, September 30, 1853, Buchanan Papers.
352
. Nichols, 55–56.
353
. James Buchanan to John Forney, February 28, 1857, Moore, 10:104; John Forney to Buchanan, March 6, 1857, Ibid., notes.
354
. Letters to and from John Forney and Jeremiah Black, May 15 and June 15, 1857, in Klein, 281–282; Nichols, 80–63; Kenneth Stamp on Forney; Birkner, 178.
355
. Klein, 264–266.
356
. James Buchanan to Joseph Baker, January 11, 1858, Moore, X: 175–177.
357
. Forney, 2:237.
358
. Forney, 2:247–248.
359
. Forney, 2:364.
360
.
Boston Daily Advertiser
, November 6, 1858.
361
. Nat Brandt,
The Town That Started the Civil War
(Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990), 48–49.
362
. W. G. Ballantine,
The Oberlin Jubilee: 1833–1883
(Oberlin, Ohio: E. J. Goodrich, 1883), 20–21, 50–51.
363
. Roland Baumann,
The 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue: A Reappraisal
(Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 2003), 8.
364
. Ernst Henes,
Historic Wellington: Then and Now
(Lorain, Ohio: Southern Lorain County Historical Society, 1983).
365
. Brandt,
The Town That Started the Civil War
, 62–64;
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, April 8, 1859.
366
. Artemas Halbert trial testimony, in Jacob Shipherd,
History of the Wellington-Oberlin Rescue
(Boston: J.P. Jewett and Co., 1859), 22.
367
.
New York Daily Tribune
, September 19, 1858; trial testimony of Seth Bartholomew,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, April 6, 1859.
368
. Richard Winsor, “How John Price Was Rescued,” W. G. Ballantine,
The Oberlin Jubilee: 1833–1883
(Oberlin: E.G. Goodrich, 1883), 252.
369
. Owl, June 6, 1896.
370
. Baumann,
The 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue: A Reappraisal
, 14; Norris Wood trial testimony, in Shipherd,
History of the Wellington-Oberlin Rescue
, 24.
371
.
Oberlin News
, March 3, 1899.
372
. Fugitive slave law guidelines in Wilbur Siebert,
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
(New York: Russell & Russell, 1898), 28.
373
. Trial testimony of Isaac Bennett,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, April 8, 1859.
374
. Owl, June 6, 1896.
375
. Jennings trial testimony, in Shipherd, 20.
376
. Jacob Wheeler’s trial testimony, in Shipherd, 22.
377
. Chauncey Wack and Noah Woods’s testimony, in Shipherd, 33.
378
. Shipherd,
History of the Wellington-Oberlin Rescue
, 123.
379
. Winsor account of rescue in Ballantine, 254.
380
. Brandt, 101–104.
381
. Jennings trial testimony, in Shipherd, 21.
382
. Brandt, 106.
383
.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, September 24, 1858.
384
. William Cochran,
The Western Reserve and the Fugitive Slave Law: A Prelude to the Civil War
, publication no. 101, Collections (Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1920), 134, in Jeffrey Auer, ed.,
Anti-Slavery and Disunion, 1858–1861: Studies in the Rhetoric of Compromise and Conflict
(New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1963), notes.
385
. Richard Ellis and Aaron Wildavsky, “A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming Civil War,”
Comparative Issues in Society and History
, January 1990, 91.
386
. Baumann, x.
387
.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, December 7, 1858.
388
. Shipherd, 4;
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, December 8, 1858.
389
. Brandt, 127–130.
390
.
Daily Cleveland Herald
, January 15, 1859.
391
. Brandt, 134–135.
392
.
Cleveland Herald
, April 5, 1859; Brandt, 145.
393
.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, April 25, 1859, December 7, 1858, May 24, 1859, January 19, 1859.
394
. Seth Gates to Rep. Joshua Giddings, May 26, 1859, Boyd Stutler Collection of Papers on John Brown, Ohio Historical Society, copies at Princeton University.