Lincoln Part 107

228 "me except Billy': Henry C. Whitney to WHH, July 18, 1887, HWC.

229 "one hundred defeats": CW, 3:339.

CHAPTER NINE: THE TASTE IS IN MY MOUTH

This chapter draws heavily on two excellent accounts of the 1860 campaign and election: William E. Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937), and Reinhard H. Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Harvard University Press, 1944).

For the general political background of that election, see David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 18481861, completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), and Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln, vol. 2, Prologue to Civil War, 18591861 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951).

For Lincoln's activities during the year before his election, Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959), is indispensable.

There are several good studies of the Republican convention that nominated Lincoln: Kenneth M. Stampp, "The Republican National Convention of 1860," in his The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 136162; Don E. Fehrenbacher, "The Republican Decision at Chicago," in Norman A. Graebner, ed., Politics and the Crisis of 1860 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), pp. 3260; and Elting Morison, "The Election of 1860," in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Fred L. Israel, eds., History of American Presidential Elections, 17891968 (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1971), 2:10971122. Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864 (Minneapolis: Charles W. Johnson, 1893), is a rather dry record, but William B. Hesseltine, Three Against Lincoln: Murat Halstead Reports the Caucuses of 1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960), recaptures the color and excitement of that gathering.

Willard L. King, Lincoln's Manager, David Davis (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Harvard University Press, 1960), is essential to an understanding of Lincoln's campaign.

The best a.n.a.lysis of the 1860 election returns is William E. Gienapp, "Who Voted for Lincoln?" in John L. Thomas, ed., Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition (Amherst, Ma.s.s.: University of Ma.s.sachusetts Press, 1986), pp. 5097. For valuable essays on how immigrant groups, particularly the Germans, voted, see Frederick C. Leubke, ed., Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971).

230 "my private business": CW, 3:396.

230 "even household purposes": CW, 3:337.

230 "have already had": CW, 3:387.

231 the Republican party: CW, 3:337, 341.

231 to remain neutral: Don E. Fehrenbacher, Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth (Madison, Wis.: American History Research Center, 1957), offers a full account of this complicated feud.

231 "languages from myself": CW, 3:380.

232 "for that plank": CW, 3:384.

232 "we shall disagree": CW, 3:391.

232 "the Slave power": CW, 3:345. This phrase, which Lincoln had avoided using up through 1858, now began to appear in his speeches and letters.

232 dangers of "Douglasism": CW, 3:379.

232 "he absorbs them": CW, 3:367.

232 of Harper's Magazine: Robert W. Johannsen, "Stephen A. Douglas, 'Harper's Magazine,' and Popular Sovereignty," in The Frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), pp. 120145. Douglas's article is most easily available in Jaffa and Johannsen, In the Name of the People, pp. 58125.

232 "their internal polity": Ibid., pp. 8485.

233 "of the Union": Ibid., p. 150.

233 "most insidious one": CW, 3:394.

233 "the little gentleman": W. T. Bascom to AL, Sept. 1, 1859, Lincoln MSS, LC.

233 "kick like thunder": Joseph Medill to AL, Sept. 10, 1859, Lincoln MSS, LC.

233 "right to object": CW, 3:434, 428, 405.