Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [535]
followed the same rules…Newspaper stenographers: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, pp. 4, 9.
“No more striking…and staying power”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 94.
The highly partisan papers: See The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, pp. 7–8.
“when Mr. Lincoln…music in front”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, following Ottawa debate, quoted in The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, p. 85.
“excoriation of Lincoln…in shame”: Chicago Times, in ibid.
“both comparatively…Hit him again”: Stephen Douglas’s speech, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 5–6.
conceded that Douglas…“upon principle, alone”: AL, “Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” July 17, 1858, in CW, II, p. 506.
“The very notice…political physicians”: Stephen Douglas, quoted in NYTrib, included in AL’s reply, “Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro,” September 15, 1858, in The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, p. 173.
“Well, I know…if he can”: AL’s reply, “Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro,” September 15, 1858, in ibid., pp. 173, 175.
a small notebook…“pursuit of Happiness”: Ibid., p. 17. Quotation from paragraph two of the Declaration of Independence (1776).
“majestic interpretation…in other ages”: AL, “Speech at Lewistown, Illinois,” August 17, 1858, quoted in Press and Tribune, Chicago, August 21, 1858, in CW, II, p. 546.
“I care more…in Christendom”: Stephen Douglas’s reply, “Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois,” October 15, 1858, in CW, III, p. 322.
“the doctrine…a slave of another”: AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 265–66.
“The difference between…these views”: AL, “Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois,” September 11, 1858, in CW, III, p. 92.
set of Black Laws…on juries: Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790–1860 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1961), pp. 93, 278.
“If you desire…Never, never”: Stephen Douglas’s speech, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, p. 9.
“the signers…that’s the truth”: Stephen A. Douglas’s speech, “Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois,” October 15, 1858, in ibid., p. 296.
“no purpose…the black races”: AL’s reply, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in ibid., p. 16.
“of making voters…nor to intermarry”: AL’s speech, “Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois,” September 18, 1858, in ibid., p. 145.
“a physical difference…of every living man”: AL’s reply, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in ibid., p. 16.
only unequivocal statement: Harry Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided, pp. 382–84.
passing a special law…“whether free or slave”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 30.
“Seward did not…of the whites”: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 94.
“the two races…in other lands”: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 83, 84; SPC, quoted in ibid.
“The most dreadful…prejudice of the white”: de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Mansfield and Winthrop, pp. 326, 329, 328.
“in the name of…to go?”: Henry Clay, quoted in Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. I: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, p. 515.
“My first impulse…native land”: AL, “Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, p. 255.
More than 3 million: Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 12.
“What then?…safely disregarded”: AL, quoting his 1854 Peoria speech in his reply, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, p. 15.
“With public sentiment…this American people”: AL’s reply, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in ibid., pp. 27, 29.
“they did not mean…all colors everywhere”: AL, “Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” June 26, 1857, in CW, II, p. 406.
“penetrate the human soul”: AL’s reply, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, p. 29.
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