Lincoln Part 97

181 "the Union dissolved": CW, 2:270.

181 "an innocent one": CW, 2:256.

181 all "mere politicians": Zebina Eastman to WHH, Jan. 2, 1866, HWC.

181 "all his kin": C. H. Ray to E. B. Washburne, Dec. 24, 1855, Washburne MSS, LC.

181 "is all right": Zebina Eastman, History of the Anti-Slavery Agitation, and the Growth of the Liberty and Republican Parties in the State of Illinois (pamphlet in Eastman MSS, Chicago Historical Society), p. 671.

181 "in the State": E. B. Washburne to Zebina Eastman, Dec. 19, 1854, Eastman MSS, Chicago Historical Society.

181 help elect Lincoln: Pinsker, "Senator Abraham Lincoln," p. 12.

181 new General a.s.sembly: Leonard Swett to AL, Dec. 22, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 lost him support: Pinsker, "If You Know Nothing," p. 12.

182 "to the Sennet": Charles Hoyt to AL, Nov. 20, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 "at your disposal": Robert Boal to AL, Dec. 7, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 "again) the Man": Hugh Lamaster to AL, Dec. 11, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 "make no pledges": Abraham Jonas to AL, Dec. 2, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 "to commit himself": Thomas A. Marshall to AL, Dec. 8, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 "era of Slavery": Thomas J. Turner to AL, Dec. 10, 1854, Lincoln MSS, LC.

182 "in the future": Robert W. Johannsen, ed., The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), p. 331.

183 "person for it": Pinsker, "Senator Abraham Lincoln," p. 11.

183 "Anti-Slavery men": CW, 11:9..

183 "for US senator": Joseph Gillespie to WHH, Sept. 19, 1866, HWC.

183 "make an election".: CW, 11:9.

184 Trumbull had 5: For a summary of the votes on the ten ballots, see Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 175.

184 La Salle County: Pinsker, "Senator Abraham Lincoln," pp. 1819.

184 as he directed: WHH, interview with Stephen T. Logan, undated, Lamon MSS, HEH. See also WHH, interview with S. C. Parks, undated, Lamon MSS, HEH.

184 "disappointed and mortified": Joseph Gillespie to WHH, Sept. 19, 1866, HWC.

184 "consented to it": CW, 2:307.