[i-26] For a severe, though manifestly biased comment on the bad money episode, so far as it concerned Lincoln, see Edmonds, 47-48.
[i-27] Wilson’s Washington, 11-12.
[i-28] Hill, 219-20.
[i-29] New Salem, Illinois, when Lincoln took up his residence there in the summer of 1831, was a busy little village of recent origin, near the west bank of the Sangamon River, in the county of that name. Its site—for the place has long since fallen into decay—is within the present limits of Menard County, about twenty miles northwest of Springfield.
[i-30] The anecdote is from Parkinson’s Tour in America, ii, 436-37 (London, 1805). Whether or not it had come under Lincoln’s notice we have no means of knowing.
[i-31] William McNeely, in Oldroyd, 393-94; Browne, 104.
[i-32] John Rowan Herndon, in Herndon, i, 98.
[i-33] William G. Greene, in Browne, 116-17; and in Onstot, 81-83. A more circumstantial account, based on correspondence with Greene, may be found in Coffin, 73-76. See, also, Nicolay and Hay, i, 110-11; Herndon, i, 98-99; Lamon, 136-37; Tarbell, i, 92; Tarbell’s Early Life, 160; Holland, 54; Brooks, 66.
[i-34] Lincoln’s experience with Berry reminds one of Benjamin Franklin’s trials with his partner Hugh Meredith, who was “often seen drunk in the streets, and playing at low games in the ale houses.” It is an interesting coincidence, moreover, that both Franklin and Lincoln were aided, at these critical junctures, by generous friends.