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Rights of the Weak’: Pain, Sympathy, and the Culture of Individual Rights in Antebellum America,” JAH, 82 (September 1995), 463–93; Philip S. Paludan, “Lincoln and Negro Slavery: I Haven’t Got Time for the Pain,” JALA, 27 (Summer 2006), 1–23; Julian, Speeches, 8; Magdol, Owen Lovejoy, 223; CG, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 202–6; The Works of Charles Sumner (15 vols.; Boston, 1870–83), 4: 11–13; CW, 2: 320; 4: 8.

43. Richard Carwardine, Lincoln (London, 2003), 91, 269–72; Foner, Free Soil, 108–9; Joshua R. Giddings to Sidney Howard Gay, March 3, 1858, GP; CG, 36th Congress, 1st Session, appendix, 224; CW, 2: 255; 3: 334.

44. Robert C. Winthrop Jr., A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop (Boston, 1877), 188; Henry G. Pearson, The Life of John A. Andrew (2 vols.; Boston, 1904), 1 01–3; Foner, Free Soil, 41–44.

45. CW, 2: 156, 320; Magdol, Owen Lovejoy, 125.

46. CW, 2: 362, 494; 3: 313; 4: 10–11; Speech of R. W. Thompson, Upon the Political Aspects of the Slavery Question (Terre Haute, 1855), 6.

47. David Herbert Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (New York, 2003), 79; Paul M. Angle, ed., Herndon’s Life of Lincoln (New York, 1949), 294–95; Carl F. Wieck, Lincoln’s Search for Equality (DeKalb, Ill., 2002), 18–22; Newton, Lincoln and Herndon, 51; Robert Bray, “What Abraham Lincoln Read—An Evaluative and Annotated List,” JALA, 28 (Summer 2007), 50.

48. Willard L. King, Lincoln’s Manager: David Davis (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 126–29; CW, 3: 355–56; Charles Francis Adams to Francis Bird, October 16, 1854, Letterbooks, Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

49. Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 1: 424, 456; Roy F. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: First Supplement, 1832–1865 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1974), 27; King, Lincoln’s Manager, 103, 155–56; Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (2 vols.; New York, 1906), 1: 73–76; Moore and Moore, His Brother’s Blood, 129.

50. CW, 2: 435–36, 458; Lincoln to Charles H. Ray, June 6, 1858, Papers of Abraham Lincoln (available online in New Document Discoveries section, website of Papers of Abraham Lincoln); Abraham Smith to Lincoln, May 31 and June 4, 1858; Ward Hill Lamon to Lincoln, June 9, 1858; Owen Lovejoy to Lincoln, August 4, 1858, all in ALP; Hans L. Trefousse, “Owen Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War,” JALA, 22 (Winter 2001), 15–32.

51. Chicago Daily Tribune, July 15, 1858; CW, 2: 482.

52. CW, 2: 385; 3: 423.

53. Wendell Phillips, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters (Boston, 1863), 353; Liberator, June 8, 1860.

54. Sarah F. Hughes, ed., Letters (Supplementary) of John Murray Forbes (3 vols.; Boston, 1905), 1: 167–78; Sarah F. Hughes, ed., Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes (2 vols.; Boston, 1899), 1: 153–55, 185.


4 “A House Divided”

1. Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (New York, 1978), 2–4, 324–49; Lea VanderVelde, Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier (New York, 2009), xiv; CG, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 75; J. R. Pole, The Pursuit of Equality in American History (2nd ed.; Berkeley, 1993), 182–84; Mark A. Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (New York, 2006), 57–59.

2. New York Times, March 7, 1857; Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney, A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (New York, 1990), 60.

3. Michael Vorenberg, “Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Fellow Citizens’–Before and After Emancipation,” in William A. Blair and Karen F. Younger, eds., Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (Chapel Hill, 2009), 151–52; Fehrenbacher, Dred Scott, 64–70; James H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870 (Chapel Hill, 1978), 256–59; Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.; New York, 1830), 148; Graber, Dred Scott, 29–56.

4. Anglo-African Magazine, 1 (May 1859), 149–50; Cleveland Leader, March 27, 1857; Chicago Daily Tribune, April 10, 1857; Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York, 1970), 293; Charles

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