Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (53 page)

154
    
“
the abolition of it
”
Washington, 594; CWIII:550.

154
    
“
a good thing
”
Speech at Elwood, Kansas, 12/1/59, CWIII: 496.

154
    
“
where it prevailed
”
CWIII:550, quoting Madison (
Debates
), 8/8/87, 392.

154
    
“
property in men
”
CWIII:550, quoting Madison (
Debates
), 8/25/87, 505.

155
    
“
become the carriers
”
Madison (
Debates
), 8/21–22/87, 477, 487.

155
    
Rutledge could not be counted
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, 2/27/60, SWII:117.

155
    
“
days of Cain
”
Debates and Proceedings
, 2/11/90, 1225, 1229.

156
    
“
faithful Musselmen
”
Franklin, 1160.

157
    
“
memory of Jefferson
”
William Herndon to Ward Lamon, 3/3/70, Ward Hill Lamon Papers, LN2327, Huntington Library.

158
    
“
contemptible hypocrite
”
Hamilton, 977.

158
    
“
impressions of the moment
”
Madison (
Writings
), 860.

158
    
published in 1787
There had been a private edition, in English, in Paris in 1785, and a French translation in 1786.

158
    
“
such a contest
”
J, 278–279.

158
    
several times
5th Lincoln/Douglas Debate, Galesburg, Illinois, 10/7/58, SWI:702; Speech at Columbus, 9/16/59, SWII:41.

159
    
“
a slave’s embrace
”
Moore, “Epistle of Thomas Hume” (which has “his slave’s embrace”); Dickens,
Martin Chuzzlewhit
. See Peterson, 182–183.

159
    
Lincoln denied it
To Anson G. Chester, 9/5/60, CWIV:111–112.

159
    
slow to defame individuals
In the 4th Lincoln/Douglas debate, at Charleston (SWI:637), Lincoln did make a crack about Richard M. Johnson, Martin Van Buren’s vice president, whose common-law wife Julia Chinn was an octoroon. Lincoln called him “Douglas’ friend”—an effort to depict Democrats as secretly yearning for that which they denounced.

159
    
“
the immortal author
”
Coles to Jefferson, 7/31/14.

160
    
leaked by Coles himself
J. Jefferson Looney, private communication.

160
    
“
weary in well-doing
”
Jefferson to Coles, 8/25/14.

160
    
“
our fellow Citizens
”
Coles to Jefferson, 9/26/14.

161
    
The letter, published by Holmes
Jefferson to Holmes, J, 698.

163
    
“
John Thompson
”
J, 178–179.

163
    
“
Locke, Sidney, etc
.”
J, 719.

165
    
“
to be remembered
”
J, ii.

165
    
“
tear [it] to pieces
”
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, 10/16/54, SWI:339.

165
    
“
the political community
”
American Speeches
, 703.

166
    
“
torment
”
To Joshua F. Speed, 8/24/55, SWI:360.

166
    
“
in their situation
”
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, op. cit., SWI:315.

166
    
comparing one of his colleagues
American Speeches
, 558.

167
    
could become unbalanced
See Charles Francis Adams Jr., 83: “Even now I can see Sumner’s eyes gleaming with something distinctly suggestive of insanity.”

168
    
“
to that instruction
”
American Speeches
, 679.

168
    
“
truth and manhood
”
Thoreau, 282.

168
    
condemned him as violent
Speech at Elwood, Kansas, 12/1/59, CWIII:496; Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 12/5/59, CWIII:503.

169
    
“
his own execution
”
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, 2/27/60, SWII:123–125.

169
    
“
he reappeared here
”
Thoreau, 273.

Chapter Eleven

172
    
“
from the four winds
”
“House Divided” speech, Springfield, Illinois, 6/16/58, SWI:434.

173
    
“
in that place
”
HI, 162.

173
    
“
men do care
”
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, 2/27/60, SWII:130

173
    
“
liberty-loving men
”
Speech at Chicago, 7/10/58, SWI:456.

174
    
“
many better ones
”
Donald, 245.

175
    
David Herbert Donald doubts
Donald, 249, 637–638.

175
    
one of his off-color jokes
The version printed here is in HI, 174. Christopher Brown’s recollection is in HI, 438.

178
    
“
of the past
”
Everett, IV:23.

179
    
“
vote for you
”
See SWII:733.

179
    
“
save the union
”
Goodwin, 274.

181
    
Chicago post office
Brookhiser (
Dynasty
), 131.

182
    
“
close corporation
”
Goodwin, 314.

182
    
“
I
expect to be there
”
Goodwin, 289.

183
    
“
half a dozen Yankees
”
Goodwin, 314.

183
    
“
hand of peace
”
Goodwin, 300.

184
    
“
superiority
”
HI, 332.

185
    
“
from the union
”
Howe, 253.

186
    
“
heresies
”
Eulogy on Henry Clay, Springfield, Illinois, 7/6/52, SWI:269.

186
    
“
days of Washington
”
To Alexander H. Stephens, 12/22/60, SWII:194.

186
    
“
‘pictures of silver’
”
See CWIV:160–161.

186
    
“
whatever
”
Address at Cooper Institute, op. cit., SWII:123.

187
    
“
from the dead
”
To William S. Spear, 10/23/60, SWII:182.

187
    
“
is the rub
”
To Alexander H. Stephens, 12/22/60, SWI:194.

187
    
“
see him no more
”
HI, 108.

188
    
he examined disturbing dreams
H, 352.

188
    
“
forsake us now
”
Farewell Address, Springfield, Illinois, 2/11/61, SWII:734, given here, is the newspaper account of what Lincoln said. SWII:199 is his written text.

188
    
“
those men struggled for
”
Address to the New Jersey Senate, Trenton, 2/21/61, SWII:209.

189
    
“
for all future time
”
Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 2/22/61, SWII:212–213.

189
    
“
to hell
”
HI, 709.

190
    
Lincoln’s address
First Inaugural Address, 3/4/61, SWI:215–224.

191
    
“
reclaim
”
See SWII:735.

191
    
“
galvanized corpse
”
Thomas, 245.

192
    
polished Seward’s words
See SWII:735.

193
    
spoke to a reception
American Speeches
, 717–731; AS, “Corner-Stone” Speech, Savannah, Georgia, 3/21/61. In later years Stephens tried, not very successfully, to blunt the force of his remarks. See Stephens, 173–175.

194
    
“
knell of the union
”
J, 698.

195
    
throughout the Bible
Psalms 118:22, Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:10, 1 Peter 2:7.

196
    
failed to get his way
See Howe, 256–258.

198
    
who the president was
Donald, 289–290, gives Seward’s memo to Lincoln and Lincoln’s reply.

198
    
“
only provisions
”
Donald, 292.

198
    
“
signifying nothing
”
Chesnut, 36. Mary Boykin Chesnut reworked her diary in later years, but she kept the chronological P.O.V.

Chapter Twelve

202
    
echo Washington’s language
Compare Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress, 4/15/61, SWII:232, and Washington, 872–873.

203
    
“
of his statesmanship
”
Brookhiser (
Dynasty
), 129.

204
    
“
as fast as it was made
”
HI, 331.

204
    
“
advice about anything,” “sent them away
”
HI 167, 163.

205
    
Lincoln as an ape
Donald, 186, 284, 319, 389, 387.

205
    
Mathew Brady
See Holzer (
Cooper Union
), 94–99.

206
    
“
brow of a hill
”
H, 472.

206
    
“
mental attribute
”
Charles Francis Adams Jr., 96.

207
    
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus
Chief Justice Taney ruled, in
ex parte Merryman
, that only Congress had the power to suspend habeas corpus. Congress did so in March 1863.

207
    
Clement Vallandingham
See Brookhiser (
American History
, Vallandingham); To Erastus Corning and others, 6/12/63, SWII:460–461.

208
    
“
in the town
”
Nasby, 3.

208
    
Nasby was hilarious
Donald, 543; Goodwin, 661.

209
    
Annual Message to Congress
12/1/62, SWII:415.

209
    
Madison, in the
Federalist
Madison (
Writings
), 160–167; Washington, 969–970.

210
    
“
states of it
”
To Thurlow Weed, 12/17/60, SWII:192.

210
    
“
to take Cuba
”
To James T. Hale, 1/11/61, SWII:196.

210
    
“
be restricted
”
To Alexander H. Stephens, 12/22/60, SWII:194.

210
    
“
inflexible
”
To Thurlow Weed, op. cit., SWII:192.

211
    
“
there are of us
”
Speech at Cincinnati, 9/17/59, SWII:77.

212
    
“
than your own
”
To Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellis, 5/25/61, SWII:242.

214
    
“
a drunken man
”
Brookhiser (
Dynasty
), 150.

214
    
“
mosquitoes
”
Speech in the US House of Representatives on the Presidential Question, 7/27/48, SWI:214.

214
    
“
give us victories
”
To Joseph Hooker, 1/26/63, SWII:434.

215
    
“
please me
”
Thomas, 286.

215
    
“
the better
”
Donald, 411.

215
    
“
bring us success
”
Thomas, 289.