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23. Leander Munsell to Lincoln, August 16, 1858, ALP; CW, 3: 1–29; Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery, 56.
24. Joseph Medill to Lincoln, August 27, 1858, ALP; CW, 3: 39–40.
25. CW, 3: 43, 51–52, 295; Angle, Created Equal?, 58–59; Robert W. Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas (New York, 1973), 670–71.
26. Joseph Medill to Lincoln, August 27, 1858; Jediah F. Alexander to Lincoln, August 5, 1858, both in ALP.
27. CW, 3: 145–46, 179.
28. CW, 3: 5, 140, 177, 213–14, 220, 299–300; Walter B. Stevens, A Reporter’s Lincoln, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln, Neb., 1998), 86; David Davis to Lincoln, September 25, 1858, ALP.
29. CW, 3: 11, 225–26, 254–55.
30. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas, 367; CW, 3: 284, 304–15.
31. Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery, 49–52; CW, 2: 479–81, 545; Angle, Created Equal?, 33; Frederick Douglass to Susan B. Anthony, June 5, 1861, Harper Collection, HL.
32. David Davis to Lincoln, August 3, 1858, ALP; J. McCan Davis, Abraham Lincoln: His Book (New York, 1903).
33. CW, 3: 327–28; Christopher N. Breiseth, “Lincoln, Douglas, and Springfield in the 1858 Campaign,” in Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Public and the Private Lincoln: Contemporary Perspectives (Carbondale, Ill., 1979), 16–17.
34. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas, 282–88; Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2 vols.; Baltimore, 2008), 1: 548–49; Joseph F. Newton, Lincoln and Herndon (Cedar Rapids, 1910), 234; New York Tribune, June 24, 1858; CW, 4: 34; Chicago Press and Tribune, November 5, 1858.
35. Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 1: 546; Chicago Press and Tribune, November 5, 1858.
36. Roy F. Nichols, The Disruption of American Democracy (New York, 1948), 205–25; Charles H. Ray to Lincoln, July 27, 1858, ALP; National Era, November 18, 1858; Independent, October 21, 1858; Benjamin W. Arnett, ed., Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio (Philadelphia, 1894), 17–18; Philip S. Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (5 vols.; New York, 1950–73), 5: 409–10; CW, 3: 18, 181, 337, 340; Guelzo, “Houses Divided,” 417.
37. CG, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, appendix, 447. For a full discussion of the free-labor ideology of the Republican party, see Foner, Free Soil.
38. Marcus Cunliffe, Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830–1860 (Athens, Ga., 1979), 7; Manisha Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Ideology and Politics in Antebellum South Carolina (Chapel Hill, 2000), 88–93, 140–42, 222–29; CG, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 962.
39. New York Times, November 18, 1857; CG, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1093; Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff, “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay,” in Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff, eds., Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge, U.K., 1983), 13–15; John Ashworth, “Free Labor, Wage Labor, and the Slave Power: Republicanism and the Republican Party in the 1850s,” in Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds., The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800–1880 (Charlottesville, 1996), 139–40.
40. CW, 1: 411–12.
41. CW, 2: 364.
42. Stephen A. Douglas, “The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority: Popular Sovereignty in the Territories,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 19 (September 1859), 519–37; CW, 3: 405–6, 410, 435.
43. Charles H. Ray to Lincoln, n.d. [July 1858], ALP; CW, 3: 459–63.
44. CW, 3: 478.
45. CW, 3: 356–57, 363, 476–78.
46. James A. Stevenson, “Lincoln vs. Douglas over the Republican Ideal,” American Studies, 35 (Spring 1994), 66–67; John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, 1986), 177–203; Kenneth J. Winkle,