[733] Ibid., p. 120.
[734] Debates, p. 127.
[735] Ibid., p. 129.
[736] Ibid., p. 135.
[737] Debates, p. 133. Lamon is authority for the statement that Lincoln pledged himself to Lovejoy and his faction to favor the exclusion of slavery from all the territory of the United States. Douglas did not know of this pledge, but suspected an understanding to this effect. If Lamon may be believed, this statement explains the persistence of Douglas on this point and the evasiveness of Lincoln. See Lamon, Lincoln, pp. 361-365.
[738] Ibid., p. 135.
[739] Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, p. 119.
[740] Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, p. 121.
[741] Debates, p. 136.
[742] Debates, pp. 137-143.