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"we highly disapprove...of the citizens": Resolutions by the General a.s.sembly of the State of Illinois, quoted in note 2 of "Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery," March 3, 1837, in CW, I, p. 75.
he issued a formal protest..."people of said District": "Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery," March 3, 1837, in ibid., p. 75. Daniel Stone of Springfield co-auth.o.r.ed the protest with Lincoln.
"if slavery...so think, and feel": AL to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, draft copy, Lincoln Papers.
"partly on account...that it is now": AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, pp. 61, 65.
In these early years...gradually become extinct: For an example of Lincoln stating that he believed slavery would gradually become extinct, see AL, "Speech at Greenville, Illinois," September 13, 1858, in CW, III, p. 96.
Lincoln defended both slaveowners and fugitive slaves: Donald, Lincoln, p. 104.
the const.i.tutional requirements...could not be evaded: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 28.
a sustained recession...sentiment turned: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 6162; Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, p. 28.
"stopping a skift...go down": AL, "Remarks in the Illinois Legislature Concerning the Illinois and Michigan Ca.n.a.l," January 22, 23, 1840, in CW, I, p. 196.
"If you make...the tighter": AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842, in ibid., p. 280 (quote); Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, p. 30.
was forced to liquidate...deterred from emigrating: King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 40.
to win a fourth term...term was completed: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 77; entry for August 3, 1840, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 18091865. Vol. I, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), p. 142.
"He was not very fond of girls": Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 108.
"He would burst...'clean those girls look'": AL, quoted in William H. Herndon, "a.n.a.lysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly I (September 1941), p. 367.
"as demoralized...out of sight": Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 59.
"a business which I do not understand": AL to Mrs. M. J. Green, September 22, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 118.
"...when the genius of": Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1927; 1990), p. 189.
"Lincoln had...his terrible pa.s.sion": WHH to JWW, January 23, 1890, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC.
"his Conscience...many a woman": David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, p. 350.
"handsome...much vivacity": Esther Sumners Bale interview, [1866], in ibid., p. 527 (first quote); Nancy G. Vineyard to JWW, February 4, 1887, in ibid., p. 601 (second quote).
"a good conversationalist...splendid reader": Benjamin R. Vineyard to JWW, March 14, 1887, in ibid., p. 610.
would make a good match...honor-bound to keep his word: AL to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838, in CW, I, pp. 11719.
"This thing of living...Yours, &c.-Lincoln": AL to Mary S. Owens, May 7, 1837, in ibid., pp. 7879.
"mortified almost beyond...enough to have me": AL to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838, in ibid., p. 119.
The Edwards mansion...drink, and merry conversation: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 5.
"the exact reverse": Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 165.
"physically, temperamentally, emotionally": Rankin, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, p. 160.
"her face an...pa.s.sing emotion": Elizabeth Humphreys Norris to Emilie Todd Helm, September 28, 1895, quoted in Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 24.
a self-controlled man: Elizabeth and Ninian W. Edwards interview, July 27, 1887, in HI, p. 623; MTL to Josiah G. Holland, December 4, 1865, in Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters (New York: Knopf, 1972; New York: Fromm International, 1987), p. 293.
"he felt most deeply...the least": MTL to Josiah G. Holland, December 4, 1865, in ibid., p. 293.
"the very creature of excitement": James C. Conkling to Mercy Ann Levering, September 21, 1840, quoted in ibid., pp. 1011.
"a Bishop forget his prayers": Ninian W. Edwards, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 81.
"a welcome guest everywhere...rarely danced": Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I (New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900), p. 171.
"the highest marks...the biggest prizes": Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 52.
Mary journeyed to..."'Mary's' grave": MTL to Rhoda White, August 30, 1869, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 516.
Mary's life in Lexington: See chapters 13 in Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln.
"a violent little Whig": Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 41.
"destined to be...future President": Elizabeth Todd Edward interview, 18651866, in HI, p. 443.
proudly rode her new pony: Helm, The True Story of Mary, pp. 12.
"I suppose like the rest...called in question?": MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 21.
"the great cause": "Campaign Circular from Whig Committee," January [31?], 1840, in CW, 1, p. 202.
"Old hero": "Communication to the Readers of The Old Soldier," February 28, 1840, in ibid., p. 204.
death of Mary's mother; father's remarriage: See Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 20, 22, 24, 2830.
turned "desolate": MTL to Eliza Stuart Steele, May 23, 1871, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 588.
her only real home: MTL to Elizabeth Keckley, October 29, 1867, in ibid., p. 447.
"an emotional...heart would break": Mrs. Woodrow, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 32.
"either in the garret or cellar": Orville H. Browning, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 1.
Mary may have precipitated: Abner Y. Ellis to WHH, March 24, 1866, in HI, p. 238; Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: New American Library Penguin Books, 1977; 1978), p. 60.
Elizabeth warned..."husband & wife": Elizabeth Todd Edwards interview, 18651866, in HI, pp. 443, 444.
Mary had other suitors: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, July 23 and December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 18, 20; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 8485.
