[511] Cutts, Constitutional and Party Questions, pp. 98-99.
[512] Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, pp. 641-643.
[513] See items scattered through the Illinois State Register for these exciting weeks.
[514] See Illinois State Register, October 6, 1854, and subsequent issues.
[515] Nearly every biographer of Lincoln has noted this apparent breach of agreement on the part of Douglas, but none has questioned the accuracy of the story, though the unimaginative Lamon betrays some misgivings, as he records Lincoln's course after the "Peoria truce." See Lamon, Lincoln, p. 358. The statement of Irwin (in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 329) does not seem credible, in the light of all the attendant circumstances.
[516] Whig Almanac 1855.
[517] MS. Letter, Douglas to Lanphier, December 18, 1854.
[518] MS. Letter, Douglas to Lanphier, December 18, 1854.
[519] Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, pp. 689-690; Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 275-276.
[520] Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 67.