The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Notes NOTES FOR THE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. Edwin Erle Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of1858 (Collections of the IDinois State Historical Library III; Lincoln Series, Vol. I; Springfield, ID.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1908), p. 319. The Sparks volume, cited frequently hereafter, contains extensive, complete descriptions of the debates from the pages of the period press. This account came from the New York Evening Post, September 21, 1858. 2. Ibid., p. v; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1962), p. 96. 3. Roy P. Basler, et al., eds., 7he Collected Works ofAbraham Lincoln (9 vols., New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1953-55; cited hereafter as Coli. Works ofLincoln), II, p. 502; III. p. 84; Earl Schenck Miers, et al., eds., Lincoln Day lry Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865 (3 vols., Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1959; cited hereafter as Lincoln Day lry Day), II, pp. 22123 ; PoliticalDebates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln andHon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of1858, in Illinois ... (Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster & Co., 1860), pp. 40--64; Author unknown, Recollections ofLincoln andDouglas FortY Years Ago (New York: n.p., 1899), p. 14. 376 • NOTES • 4. Lincoln Day by Day, II, p. 221; Colt. Works qfLincoln, II, p. 504; Herbert Mitgang, ed., Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971), p. 105. 5. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 99; Colt. Works qfLincoln, II, p. 522; David Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible qfPublic Debate (Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 50. 6. Coli. Works qfLincoln, II, pp. 528~29. 7. Ibid.; Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 100. 8. See James A. Smith, The Christian's Difence, Containing a Fair Statement, and Impartial Examination qfthe Leading Objections Urged by Irifidels Against the Antiquity, Genuineness, Credibility and Inspiration qf the Holy Scriptures ... (Cincinnati: J. A. James, 1843); Thomas Lewis to J. A. Reed, January 6, 1873, in Scribner's Monthly 6 (July 1873): 339; Robert T. Lincoln to Isaac Markens, November 4, 191 7, ms. in Chicago Historical Society; Paul M. Angle, "Lincoln and Religion " (ms.); Coli. Works qfLincoln, II, p. 530;John W. Forney, Anecdotes qfPublic Men (2 vols., New York: Harper & Bros., 1873), II, p. 179. Douglas actually made his remark when he first learned of Lincoln's nomination. 9. Reinhard Luthin, The RealAbraham Lincoln (Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice -Hall, 1960), p. 197. I 0. William E. Baringer, "Campaign Technique in Illinois-1860," Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for 1931 (n.p., n.d.), pp. 212, 246; for further discussion of the political culture of the era, see Harold Holzer, Mark E. Neely,Jr., and Gabor S. Boritt, The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (New York: Scribners, 1984), pp. 4~5; Harry V.Jaffa, Crisis qf the House Divided: An Interpretation qfthe Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959), p. 432. II. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. lO I. 12. Ibid., pp. I 02~3; Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf1858, pp. 193, 197, 200; Lincoln Day by Day, II, p. 225; Herbert Mitgang, The Fiery Trial: A Life qf Lincoln (New York: Viking Press, 1974), p. 42. 13. Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf 1858, pp. 75~77. 14. Ibid., pp. 80-92. 15. Ibid., pp. 77~79; Otis R. Goodall, "Hon. Robert Roberts Hitt," Phonographic Magazine 7, No. 11 (June 1, 1893): 205. 16. Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery, p. 54; Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf1858, p. 79. 17. Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf 1858, p. 79. 18. Ibid., pp. 82-83; Mitgang, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait, p. llO. 19. Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf1858, pp. 83~84; Chicago Press and Tribune, October 11, 1858. 20. Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf 1858, p. 84; Chicago Press and Tribune, August 30, 1858; RobertS. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), p. 25. 21. Harper, Lincoln and the Press, p.82. 22. Col!. Works qfLincoln, III, p. 373; Henry Clay Whitney, Life on the Circuit • NOTES • 377 with lincoln (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1892), p. 457; Sparks, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates qf1858, p. 595. 23. Emanuel Hertz, ed., The Hidden Lincoln: From the litters and Papers qf William H. Herndon (New York: Viking Press, 1938), p. 271. 24. Mitgang, Abraham lincoln: A Press Portrait, p. 110; Sparks, The lincolnDouglas Debates qf1858, pp. 77, 594-95. 25. Sparks, The...