Lincoln
Chapter 101 : 200 "controvert its correctness": CW, 2:388. 200 to accept it: CW, 2:401. 20

200 "controvert it's correctness": CW, 2:388.

200 to accept it: CW, 2:401.

201 "all recognize it": CW, 2:404.

201 "and inferior races": Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 569571.

201 "benefit of slavery": CW, 2:399.

201 "resistance to it": CW, 2:401.

202 "than it is": CW, 2:404.

202 "pursuit of happiness": CW, 2:405406.

202 "sophists as Douglas": Gustave Koerner to Lyman Trumbull, July 4, 1857, Trumbull MSS, LC.

202 "not be notified": CW, 2:412413.

203 the Kansas Territory: For an informed account of these developments regarding Kansas, see Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

203 "farce ever enacted": CW, 2:400.

203 "Douglas in Illinois": Jeff L. Duggan to Lyman Trumbull, Jan. 28, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

204 "to this juggle": Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, p. 587. For an excellent a.n.a.lysis of Douglas's course, see Robert W. Johannsen, "The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign of 1858: Background and Perspective," JISHS 73 (Winter 1980): 242262.

204 "or voted up": Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 590591.

204 "courageously, eminently so": Johannsen, "The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign," p. 253.

204 "in the country": David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, edited and completed by Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), p. 321.

204 in the wrong: CW, 2:427.

204 "to go under": CW, 2:448.

204 "here in Illinois?": CW, 2:430.

204 to oppose him: For an account of this trip and what Herndon learned, see Donald, Lincoln's Herndon, pp. 112116.

204 "Are our friends crazy?": Jesse K. Dubois to Lyman Trumbull, Apr. 8, 1858, Trumbull MSS, LC.

205 "can never forget": WHH to Horace Greeley, Apr. 8, 1858, Greeley MSS, New York Public Library.

205 make himself available: Beveridge (2:564568) gave great credit to rumors of Wentworth's candidacy, but Don E. Fehrenbacher has shown these were largely the work of Democrats seeking to divide the Republicans. Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth (Madison, Wis.: American History Research Center, 1957), pp. 155157.

205 "thick and thin": Beveridge, 2:566.