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5. Springfield Republican, March 11, 1857; Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (New York, 1992), 105–8; Sarah F. Hughes, ed., Letters (Supplementary) of John Murray Forbes (3 vols.; Boston, 1905), 1: 190.
6. James F. Simon, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession and the President’s War Power (New York, 2006), 133–38; CW, 2: 391, 398–99.
7. CW, 2: 448.
8. CW, 2: 398–410; Fehrenbacher, Dred Scott, 406–8.
9. Richard K. Crallé, ed., Works of John C. Calhoun (6 vols.; Charleston, S.C., 1851–55), 1: 507–8; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese, Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders’ New World Order (New York, 2008), 8–21, 80–81; Merrill D. Peterson, The Jeffersonian Image in the American Mind (New York, 1960), 164–65; Paul M. Angle, ed., Herndon’s Life of Lincoln (New York, 1949), 294–95; CW, 3: 204–5.
10. Isaac N. Arnold, The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery (Chicago, 1866), 122–26; CW, 2: 405–9.
11. Foner, Free Soil, 131; Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-Century Crusader (Philadelphia, 1953), 225–28; CW, 2: 430; Lyman Trumbull to Lincoln, January 3, 1858, ALP.
12. Horace White, The Life of Lyman Trumbull (Boston, 1913), 87; Elihu B. Washburne to Lincoln, May 2, 1858, ALP; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s (Stanford, 1962), 54–63; Proceedings of the Republican State Convention, Held at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858 (Springfield, Ill., 1858), 8.
13. CW, 2: 446, 461–69.
14. Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford, 1882), 300; William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (Lawrence, Kans., 2007), 94; John L. Scripps to Lincoln, June 22, 1858, ALP; Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (New York, 1991), 146; CG, 31st Congress, 1st Session, appendix, 943; Speech of Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Delivered at the Republican Mass Meeting in Cincinnati, August 21, 1855 (Columbus, Ohio, 1855), 8; Solomon Foot, Reasons for Joining the Republican Party (New York, 1855), 6. The phrase “ultimate extinction” does not appear in Lincoln’s Collected Works before the House Divided speech, except in a “fragment” that appears to be an early draft of that address. CW, 2: 453.
15. David Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery (Chicago, 1990), 44; CW, 3: 17; Theodore Parker, A Sermon of the Dangers Which Threaten the Rights of Man in America (Boston, 1854), 27; Harvey Wish, George Fitzhugh, Propagandist of the Old South (Baton Rouge, 1943), 151.
16. Foner, Free Soil, 94–102; Ohio State Journal, March 11, 1857; George E. Baker, ed., The Works of William H. Seward (5 vols.; New York, 1853–84), 4: 294; John L. Scripps to Lincoln, July 3, 1858, ALP; Thomas J. Davis, “Napoleon v. Lemmon: Antebellum New Yorkers, Antislavery, and Law,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (January 2009), 27–46; Chicago Tribune, October 13, 1857; New York Times, April 21, 1860; New York Tribune, April 21, 1860; CW, 3: 548n.
17. Foner, Free Soil, 70–72; Baker, Works of William H. Seward, 4: 289–92.
18. Baker, Works of William H. Seward, 4: 122, 226–27, 311–12, 333; Glyndon G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (New York, 1967), 204–9; CW, 3: 356–57; 4: 50.
19. Paul M. Angle, ed., Created Equal? The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (Chicago, 1958), 14–21.
20. CW, 2: 487–501; 3: 254–55.
21. Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery, 46–48; Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (New York, 2008), 102; Waldo W. Braden, Abraham Lincoln: Public Speaker (Baton Rouge, 1988), 23–35; Chicago Press and Tribune, August 23, 1858; Willard L. King, Lincoln’s Manager: David Davis (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 122.
22. Fehrenbacher, Prelude, 104–9; CW, 3: 3, 111, 268; Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery, 52–53, 156–60; Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (3 vols.; New York, 1907–8), 2: 98–99; James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of