"high pitch of wrath...a corrupt bargain": Pike, "Night Scenes in the Pa.s.sage of the Nebraska Bill," March 4, 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, pp. 21718 (quote p. 217).
"I said the man...I mean you": NYTrib, March 6, 1854.
"this discussion...man, as man": SPC, "Maintain Plighted Faith. Speech of Hon. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, in the Senate, February 3, 1854," Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., p. 140.
"Ah..."negro" with two gs": NYTrib, March 7, 1854 (first quote); Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I (4 vols., New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939), p. 144 (second quote).
"Midnight pa.s.sed...was taken": Pike, "Night Scenes in the Pa.s.sage of the Nebraska Bill," March 4, 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 216.
The all-night session: Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, p. 432.
by "great confusion...galleries partic.i.p.ated": NYTrib, March 4, 1854.
"beastly drunk...the Senate room": Ibid.
"The Senate is emasculated": Thomas Hart Benton, quoted by Pike, "Night Scenes in the Pa.s.sage of the Nebraska Bill," March 4, 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 220.
a distant cannonade: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 152.
"They celebrate...itself shall die": Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 156.
"Be a.s.sured...forces of slavery and freedom": Pike, "A Warning," April 1854, from NYTrib, in Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, pp. 22223.
"The tremendous storm...every week": Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: A House Dividing, p. 125.
Resolutions: NYTrib, March 6 and 10, 1854.
"led by a band...torches and banners": NYTrib, March 6, 1854.
"he sat on the edge...half-slave and half-free": T. Lyle d.i.c.key, paraphrased in Frederick Trevor Hill, Lincoln the Lawyer (New York: Century Co, 1906), p. 264.
"as he had never been before": AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, p. 67 (quote); Miller, Lincoln"s Virtues, pp. 23234, 23839.
"took us by...and stunned": AL, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois," October 16, 1854, in CW, II, p. 282.
spent many hours in the State Library: Illinois State Register, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 173.
"inside and...downside": Herndon and Weik, Herndon"s Life of Lincoln, p. 478.
"I am slow...to rub it out": Joshua F. Speed to WHH, December 6, 1866, in HI, p. 499.
at the annual State Fair: Illinois State Journal, October 5, 1854; Peoria Daily Press, October 9, 1854; Illinois State Register, October 6, 1854.
a "world-renowned" plow: Peoria Daily Press, October 9, 1854.
"a jolly good time ensued": Ibid.
Douglas at the State Fair: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, pp. 14748; Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 124.
"He had a large...crush his prey": Horace White, The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 17, 1914 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), pp. 78.
"cast away...a half-naked pugilist": John Quincy Adams diary, quoted in William Gardner, Life of Stephen A. Douglas (Boston: Roxburgh Press, 1905), p. 20.
"He was frequently...with him": Peoria Daily Press, October 7, 1854.
Lincoln announced reb.u.t.tal the following day: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 148.
Douglas seated in the front row: White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 12.
largest audience: Donald, Lincoln, p. 174.
"awkward...knew he was right": White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 10.
"one of the world"s...lapse of time": White, The Lincoln and Douglas Debates, p. 12.
"thin, high-pitched...of the speaker himself": White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 10.
Lincoln embedded his argument: AL, "Speech at Peoria Illinois," October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 24783.
so "clear and logical...most effective": Illinois Daily Journal, October 5, 1854.
"connected view...reclaiming of their fugitives": AL, "Speech at Peoria Illinois," October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 24875. The text of Lincoln"s speech in Springfield on October 4, 1854, is no longer extant, but as the editors of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln have noted, the speech Lincoln delivered in Peoria on October 16, 1854, "is much the same speech." In the absence of a verbatim transcription of the Springfield speech, Lincoln"s words from the October 16, 1854, Peoria one have been subst.i.tuted. See footnote 1 to "Speech at Springfield, Illinois," CW, II, p. 240.
"thundering tones...drunkard on the earth": AL, "Temperance Address. An Address, Delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society," February 22, 1842, in CW, I, pp. 273, 279.
"joined the north...to the latest generations": AL, "Speech at Peoria Illinois," October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 26476.
"deafening applause...anti-Nebraska speech": Peoria Daily Press, October 7, 1854.
Once he committed...authenticity of feeling: Miller, Lincoln"s Virtues, p. 14; Donald, Lincoln, p. 270.
"as my two eyes make one in sight": Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mudtime," The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1969; 1979), p. 277.
CHAPTER 6: THE GATHERING STORM
"mainly attributed...the first choice": Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in HI, p. 182.
the worst blizzard in more than two decades: Entries for January 2028, 1855, in Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 18091865. Vol. II: 18481860, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), pp. 13637 [hereafter Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II]; articles in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Ill., January 23February 8, 1855.
"the merry sleigh bells...nearly extinct": Illinois Daily Journal, January 24, 27, and 30, 1855.
"a beehive of activity": Daily Alton Telegraph, February 12, 1855, quoted in Mark M. Krug, Lyman Trumbull, Conservative Radical (New York and London: A. S. Barnes & Co., and Thomas Yoseloff, 1965), p. 98.
"lobby and the galleries...and their guests": Krug, Lyman Trumbull, p. 98.
ladies in the gallery: Ibid.; White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 17.