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135 "of the earth": Congressional Globe, 30 Cong., 2 sess., pp. 31, 38, 55, 83.
136 "of said District": CW, 1:75.
136 "to be abolished": Findley, A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress, pp. 138, 139.
136 "I was n.o.body": Arlin Turner, "Elizabeth Peabody Visits Lincoln, February, 1865," New England Quarterly 48 (March 1975): 119.
136 "District of Columbia": CW, 2:22.
136 "into said District": CW, 2:2022.
137 "hound from Illinois": Beveridge, 1:482.
137 throughout the country: W. D. Howells, Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1938), p. 64.
137 "calculation of consequences": Riddle, Congressman Abraham Lincoln, p. 170; Beveridge, 1:485. Lincoln's proposal was not a moving cause for Calhoun's Address of the Southern Delegates in Congress, to their const.i.tuents, which had been prepared in a preliminary form some weeks earlier. Charles M. Wiltse, John C. Calhoun: Sectionalism 18401850 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1951), p. 541.
137 "at that time": CW, 2:22.
138 "fairness, and friends.h.i.+p": CW, 2:2224.
138 "not be sustained": CW, 2:43.
138 "State Central Committee": CW, 2:3940.
138 "had no opposition": CW, 2:46.
138 "go for him": J. F. Speed to WHH, Feb. 14, 1866, copy, Lamon MSS, HEH.
138 "it for themselves": CW, 2:2829.
139 "the Land Office": David Davis to AL, Feb. 21, 1849, Lincoln MSS, LC.
139 at most, tepid: The most persuasive account of this episode, which I have closely followed, is Thomas F. Schwartz, "'An Egregious Political Blunder': Justin b.u.t.terfield, Lincoln and Illinois Whiggery," Papers of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation 8 (1986): 919.
139 "by common consent": CW, 2:29.
139 "surrender of the law": CW, 10:14.
139 Morrison declined it: CW, 2:41.
139 "in a favorable light": John H. Morrison to David Davis, Apr. 26, 1849, photostat, David Davis MSS, Chicago Historical Society.
140 "a Land lawyer": Josiah M. Lucas to AL, May 9, 1849, Lincoln MSS, LC.
140 b.u.t.terfield's candidacy: For the story from b.u.t.terfield's perspective, see Thomas Ewing, "Lincoln and the General Land Office, 1849," JISHS 25 (Oct. 1932): 139153.
140 "Mr. B. himself": CW, 2:43, 51.
