Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (51 page)

53
      
“such sermons
”
P, 702.

53
      
“
enslave mankind
”
P, 666.

53
      
“
exactness is necessary
”
P, 766.

53
      
“
justly deserved it
”
P, 801.

54
      
“
word of God!
”
P, 754.

54
      
“
worn out debauchee
”
P, 770–771.

54
      
“
upon the stroll
”
P, 800.

54
      
“
would she be believed?
”
P, 792, 797.

54
      
Paine’s erotic history
Keane, 49–52, 75–78.

54
      
“
blasphemy
”
P, 750.

54
      
“
example of murder
”
P, 703.

55
      
“
God to man
”
P, 685.

55
      
“
TO EACH OTHER
”
P, 694.

55
      
church trustee
Thomas, 12.

55
      
“
talked about it
”
HI, 107.

56
      
“
grounds of reason
”
HI, 472.

56
      
“
a bastard
”
HI, 576.

56
      
burned it
Hill’s son said his father made Lincoln burn it (HI, 61–62), Herndon said Hill burned it himself (H, 355).

56
      
“
hundreds of times
”
HI, 61.

56
      
“
an open scoffer
”
Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, 7/31/46, SWI:139.

57
      
“
or explanation
”
P, 777.

57
      
“
and one is three
”
P, 697.

57
      
“
interval of life
”
P, 710.

58
      
“
horses and cattle
”
4th Lincoln/Douglas Debate, Charleston, Illinois, 9/18/58, SWI:677.

58
      
“
leave her alone
”
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, Springfield, Illinois, 6/26/57, SWI:398.

58
      
“
upon . . . emetics
”
To Erastus Corning and others, 6/12/63, SWII:461.

59
      
“
MUNIFICENCE
”
P, 694.

59
      
“
still goes on
”
P, 674.

59
      
“
would be hanged
”
P, 702.

59
      
“
think that is
”
To Andrew Johnston, 4/18/46, SWI:137.

60
      
always had them
See HI, 404.

60
      
all the plays
To James Hackett, 8/17/63, SWII:493.

60
      
A scholar rediscovered it
See Miller, 1 and 6.

61
      
“
alive with fun
”
The Bear Hunt, before 2/25/47, SWI:148.

61
      
Lincoln gave a speech
Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, 1/27/38, SWI:28–36.

63
      
portrait of Napoleon
The lines are from
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
, canto III, stanza 42.

65
      
a note of thanks
See CWI:115.

65
      
Vicksburg had turned on its gamblers
An account of the whole episode is in Foote, 250–262. The bandit behind the supposed plot appears in Jorge Luis Borges (
A Universal History of Iniquity
), and his cave appears in Mark Twain (
Tom Sawyer
).

66
      
panic among masters
Protest in the Illinois Legislature on Slavery, 3/3/37, SWI:18.

Chapter Five

68
      
another story
Boritt, 55.

68
      
“
so
interesting
”
The Rebecca Letter, 8/27/42, SWI:100.

69
      
“
for political effect
”
To Elias Merryman, 9/19/42, SWI:102.

70
      
The Log Cabin Campaign
See Brookhiser (
American History
, Harrison) and Collins.

70
      
“
Damn such a book
”
Guelzo, 93.

70
      
“
happy condition
”
Boritt, 72.

70
      
single-issue candidate
Boritt, 175.

71
      
“
continued in operation
”
Address to the People of Illinois, 3/4/43, CWI:318.

71
      
“
he certainly did
”
See Douglas Wilson, 216, 353.

72
      
“
printed on them
”
Douglas Wilson, 214.

72
      
“
on the earth
”
To John T. Stuart, 1/20/41, SWI:69.

72
      
hid their knives and razors
H, 168–169; HI 475.

72
      
“
let us hear soon
”
Douglas Wilson, 236.

73
      
“
better than tolerable
”
To Mary Speed, 9/27/41, SWI:74–75.

73
      
“
nervous debility
”
To Joshua Speed, c. early 1/42, SWI:77.

73
      
“
hug it the tighter
”
To Joshua Speed, 2/25/42, 90–91.

74
      
to fight her battles
Exodus 14:13; 2 Chronicles 20:17; to Joshua Speed, 7/4/42, SWI:95.

74
      
glad to be married
To Joshua Speed, 10/5/42, SWI:103–104. Lincoln’s relationship with Speed, and their relationships with women, have been the primary stimulus for the question: Was Lincoln gay?
Tripp argued yes; I reviewed his book (Brookhiser, “Was Lincoln Gay?”), not critically enough.

74
      
“
the garret or the cellar
”
Douglas Wilson, 242.

74
      
throw things at him
Strozier, 107.

75
      
“
he had lived
”
HI, 197.

75
      
“
look in this
”
H, 254.

75
      
documents and underwear
H, 280.

75
      
“
his back in a ditch
”
HI, 636.

76
      
“
never very formidable
”
H, 210.

76
      
“
dug up the root
”
H, 272.

76
      
“
as he walked
”
H, 473.

76
      
“
whistle off sadness
”
HI, 350.

76
      
“
reverse the decree
”
H, 352; HI, 360. Herndon remembered it as “no prayers of ours can reverse,” Mary as “no cares of ours can arrest.”

76
      
“
before the man
”
H, 354.

77
      
“
self-evident demonstration
”
P, 736.

77
      
the case of Rebecca Thomas
Lincoln Legal Briefs
nailed down the specifics of the case. Herndon reconstructed Lincoln’s speech in H, 274–275; Fehrenbacher and Fehrenbacher are skeptical (
Recollected Words
, 230, 541). But Herndon was there, and he was witnessing a performance in his own profession.

78
      
“
ruff-scuff generally
”
Howe, 35.

78
      
“
‘a gallon of gall’
”
Address to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois, SWI:83.

78
      
“
moral reformation
”
Ibid., SWI:90. The real George Washington served wine at his table, treated voters to drinks, and ran a distillery at Mount Vernon.

79
      
fun of them
H, 206–207.

79
      
“
fall dead
”
To John J. Hardin, SWI:124.

79
      
“
the Christian denominations
”
Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, 7/31/46, SWI:139. Lincoln’s language was careful: he implied that he was no longer a fatalist, but his exact words were that he had “left off . . . arguing thus.”

81
      
“
seemed wonderful
”
To Williamson Dursley, 10/3/45, SWI:111.

82
      
“
spot of soil
”
“Spot” Resolutions in the US House of Representatives, 12/22/47, SWI:159.

82
      
“
Washington would answer
”
Speech in the US House of Representatives on the War with Mexico, 1/12/48, SWI:168.

82
      
“
spotty Lincoln,” “spotted fever
”
Thomas, 120.

82
      
“
peace and harmony
”
Washington, 972.

83
      
“
vile dirt!
”
Appendix to the Congressional Globe
, 163.

83
      
“
I ever heard
”
To William Henry Herndon, 2/2/48, SWI:174.

84
      
Winthrop’s oration
Winthrop, 70–89.

84
      
sputter along
One of its lawmakers would be Alexis de Tocqueville, the man who interviewed Charles Carroll.

85
      
“
immovable attachment
”
See also Washington, 964.

86
      
“
negro livery stable
”
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, 10/16/54, SWI:313.

86
      
“
of said District
”
Protest in the Illinois Legislature on Slavery, 3/3/37, SWI:18.

86
      
“
(paradox though it may seem)
”
To Williamson Dursley, 10/3/45, SWI:112.

87
      
“
leading citizens
”
Proposal in the US House of Representatives for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, 1/10/49, SWI:229.

Chapter Six

90
      
“
possible to conceive
”
Dyer, 222–230.

90
      
“
supply their places
”
Henry Adams, 134.

91
      
“
knell of the union
”
J, 698.

91
      
“
disgust with the union
”
Brookhiser (
Madison
), 243.

92
      
rush of the moment
See Dyer, 230.

93
      
“
Clay and Frelinghuysing
”
Schlesinger, 439.

93
      
“
glorious triumph
”
To William H. Herndon, 6/12/48, SWI:185.

93
      
“
a natural death
”
To Williamson Dursley, 10/3/45, SWI:112.

94
      
a long Senate speech
Register of Debates
, 22nd Cong., 1st sess., 1832, 277.

95
      
“
the opulent
”
Madison, 531.

96
      
“
vigor of his nature
”
Hamilton, 663.

96
      
“
the pistol’s mouth,” “gallant
”
Weems, 288.

97
      
“
to reflect
”
Abridgement of the Debates
, XVI:391.

98
      
“
‘successfully compromised’
”
H, 292.

99
      
delivered a eulogy
Eulogy on Henry Clay, Springfield, Illinois, 7/6/52, SWI:259–272.

99
      
“
and with Hell
”
Chapman, 172.