Lincoln
Chapter 78 : 80 "native Spanish moss": CW, 1:109110. 81 "religion of the nation"

80 "native Spanish moss": CW, 1:109110.

81 "religion of the nation": CW, 1:112.

81 "in the land": CW, 1:69.

81 "or enslaving freemen ": CW, 1:113114.

81 "knew no rest": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:375.

81 "he had lived": Joshua F. Speed to WHH, Feb. 1866, copy, Lamon MSS, HEH.

82 "[and] shoot editors": CW, 1:111.

82 "as moral pestilences": CW, 1:273.

82 "any other cla.s.s": CW, 1:278.

83 "Reason, all hail!": CW, 1:279.

83 "one of the boys": WHH, monograph on "Lincoln & Mary Todd," [1887], HWC.

83 "and faithful obedience": CW, 1:156.

83 "coa.r.s.e and vulgar fellow": Linder, Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar, pp. 6263.

83 "shrunk from responsibility": CW, 1:124125.

83 "belong to him": Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness, p. 171.

83 "a thousand years": CW, 1:109.

83 "and my love": CW, 1:178179.

84 "have avoided it": CW, 1:78.

84 "these girls look": Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 89.

84 sister, Mary Todd: The standard, highly sympathetic life is Ruth P. Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953). Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, is more balanced. For Mary Todd's family and Kentucky background, see William H. Townsend, Lincoln and the Bluegra.s.s: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955).

84 "a merry dance": WHH, Jan. 16, 1886, HWC; WHH, monograph on "Lincoln & Mary Todd," [1887], HWC.

85 "nature-and culture": WHH, interview with Mrs. N. W. Edwards, [Jan. 10, 1866], HWC.

85 "been hard bargains": Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 18, 26.

85 "for policy": WHH, interview with N. W. Edwards, Sept. 22, 1865, HWC.

86 "a rising man": WHH, interview with Mrs. N. W. Edwards, [Jan. 10, 1866], HWC.