Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War

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353 Notes With the exception of encyclopedia entries, which are always cited in full, short citations have been employed throughout the notes. Full citations for all sources can be found in the bibliography. Also, the following abbreviations have been used throughout the notes: EACW David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (New York, 2000). ENK Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds., The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky (Lexington, 2009). Governors Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (1985), 2nd ed. (Lexington, 2004). KE John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, 1992). LE John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, 2001). OR The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 73 vols. (Washington, DC, 1880–1901). Introduction 1. Flannery, “Cultural Context,” 36. 2. Flannery, “Medical Botany,” 23. 3. Greeley, ed., Clay, 73; Hopkins et al., eds., Papers of Henry Clay, 10:635–36, 651. 4. Tallant, Evil Necessity, 149–50. 5. Aron, How the West Was Lost, 183. 6. Ibid., 133, 148. For a discussion of the optimism of antebellum Kentuckians, see Friend, Maysville Road. 7. Perkins, “Consumer Frontier,” 503. 8. Ramage, John Wesley Hunt, 21–40, 67–68, 70–71, 81–84, and Rebel Raider, 11–12, 50; Aron, How the West Was Lost, 130–33; Wade, Urban Frontier, 12, 42, 49–51. 9. See Tallant, Evil Necessity, 3–25. 10. Loveland, “Farewell Tour,” 89. 354 Notes to Pages 7–18 11. Idzerda, “Lafayette,” 10–18, 25, 40; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 97–98. 12. Bailey, Diplomatic History, 177, 187; Neely, “Politics of Liberty,” 155–56. 13. KE, s.v. “Lafayette’s Visit”; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 13; Neely, “Politics of Liberty,” 156–57. 14. ENK, s.v. “Desha, Joseph,” by John Klee; Hammack, Second American Revolution , 82; Charles J. Bussey, “Joseph Desha,” in Governors, 30–31; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 15–16. 15. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 17. 16. Ibid., 31–38; Lietzenmayer, “Lafayette,” 13–14. The plan was for Lafayette to arrive in Portland, the port city for Louisville, on the steamboat Artisan, but, with his entourage aboard, the Artisan struck a snag in the Ohio River and sank, with no loss of life. Lafayette was rescued in a skiff, and his son, George, refused to leave the sinking boat until all the other passengers were safe. Lietzenmayer, “Lafayette,” 12; Mullen, “Lafayette on Kentucky,” 191. 17. KE, s.v. “Anderson, Richard Clough,” by Charles Snow Guthrie; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 29, 34, 98; Loveland, “Farewell Tour,” 66. 18. KE, s.v. “Sharp, Solomon P.,” by Frank F. Mathias; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky , 35–37. 19. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 50–53. 20. Ibid., 53–54; Levasseur, Lafayette in America, 2:167. 21. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 30, 60–62; Coleman, Lafayette’s Visit, 9; U.S. Census, 1860. Louisville overtook Lexington in 1830 with 10,341 people; Lexington had only 6,087. U.S. Census, 1860. 22. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 60–65, 81, 97–98. 23. Ibid., 71–72. Six other colleges and universities conferred on Lafayette the same degree. Ibid., 71. 24. Levasseur, Lafayette in America, 2:168; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 80. 25. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 66–71; Mullen, “Lafayette on Kentucky,” 193. As discussed in chapter 4, in 1848 Kentucky voters approved a school tax of two cents per one hundred dollars of taxable property. In 1855, they voted in favor of increasing the rate to five cents. 26. Levasseur, Lafayette in America, 2:168–69; Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 84–85. 27. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 97–98, 101. 28. Coleman, Lafayette’s Visit, 14, 16. 29. Hume, Lafayette in Kentucky, 45; Levasseur, Lafayette in America, 2:155, 165–71. 30. Levasseur, Lafayette in America, 2:171; Mullen, “Lafayette on Kentucky,” 194. 1. Henry Clay, Part One: American Hero 1. Wecter, Hero in America, 6–15. 2. For scholarly biographies of Henry Clay, see Remini, Henry Clay; Eaton, Henry Clay; and Van Deusen, Henry Clay. 3. Remini, Henry Clay, 3–13. Notes to Pages 18–25 355 4. Ibid., 3, 5; Basler, ed., Works of Abraham Lincoln, 2:121, 124. 5. Eaton, Henry Clay, 160. 6. Carrier, Monument, 323, 474; Basler, ed., Works of Abraham Lincoln, 2:126; Ellenberg, Henry Clay, xxiii; Remini, Henry Clay, 642. 7. Fischer, Tippecanoe and Trinkets Too, 50; New York Times, June 7, 12...