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a “world-renowned” plow: Peoria Daily Press, October 9, 1854.
“a jolly good time ensued”: Ibid.
Douglas at the State Fair: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, pp. 147–48; Oates, With Malice Toward None, p. 124.
“He had a large…crush his prey”: Horace White, The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 17, 1914 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), pp. 7–8.
“cast away…a half-naked pugilist”: John Quincy Adams diary, quoted in William Gardner, Life of Stephen A. Douglas (Boston: Roxburgh Press, 1905), p. 20.
“He was frequently…with him”: Peoria Daily Press, October 7, 1854.
Lincoln announced rebuttal the following day: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 148.
Douglas seated in the front row: White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 12.
largest audience: Donald, Lincoln, p. 174.
“awkward…knew he was right”: White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 10.
“one of the world’s…lapse of time”: White, The Lincoln and Douglas Debates, p. 12.
“thin, high-pitched…of the speaker himself”: White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 10.
Lincoln embedded his argument: AL, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 247–83.
so “clear and logical…most effective”: Illinois Daily Journal, October 5, 1854.
“connected view…reclaiming of their fugitives”: AL, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 248–75. The text of Lincoln’s speech in Springfield on October 4, 1854, is no longer extant, but as the editors of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln have noted, the speech Lincoln delivered in Peoria on October 16, 1854, “is much the same speech.” In the absence of a verbatim transcription of the Springfield speech, Lincoln’s words from the October 16, 1854, Peoria one have been substituted. See footnote 1 to “Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” CW, II, p. 240.
“thundering tones…drunkard on the earth”: AL, “Temperance Address. An Address, Delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in CW, I, pp. 273, 279.
“joined the north…to the latest generations”: AL, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 264–76.
“deafening applause…anti-Nebraska speech”: Peoria Daily Press, October 7, 1854.
Once he committed…authenticity of feeling: Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues, p. 14; Donald, Lincoln, p. 270.
“as my two eyes make one in sight”: Robert Frost, “Two Tramps in Mudtime,” The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1969; 1979), p. 277.
CHAPTER 6: THE GATHERING STORM
“mainly attributed…the first choice”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in HI, p. 182.
the worst blizzard in more than two decades: Entries for January 20–28, 1855, in Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809–1865. Vol. II: 1848–1860, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960; Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1991), pp. 136–37 [hereafter Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II]; articles in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Ill., January 23–February 8, 1855.
“the merry sleigh bells…nearly extinct”: Illinois Daily Journal, January 24, 27, and 30, 1855.
“a beehive of activity”: Daily Alton Telegraph, February 12, 1855, quoted in Mark M. Krug, Lyman Trumbull, Conservative Radical (New York and London: A. S. Barnes & Co., and Thomas Yoseloff, 1965), p. 98.
“lobby and the galleries…and their guests”: Krug, Lyman Trumbull, p. 98.
ladies in the gallery: Ibid.; White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 17.
bought a stack of small notebooks: Entry for January 1, 1855, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. II, p. 136; “List of Members of the Illinois Legislature in 1855,” [January 1, 1855?], in CW, II, pp. 296–98.
To reach a majority…fragile coalition: Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues, p. 303.
On the first ballot: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in CW, II, p. 304.
five anti-Nebraska…“at home”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, September 19, 1866, in HI, p. 344.
Trumbull story: AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, in CW, II, pp. 304–06; Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, and