[25] N. and H. i. 74.
[26] Lamon, 92, 93, has the best account of this famous encounter.
[27] Ford, Hist. of Illinois, 88.
[28] Ford, Hist. of Illinois, 81.
[29] See anecdote in The Good Old Times in McLean County, 48.
[30] "The jerks" was the graphic name of an attack not uncommon at these religious meetings.
[31] See Herndon, 104, 118; Holland has some singular remarks on this subject, p. 83; N. and H., i. 121, say that Lincoln was "clean of speech,"—an agreeable statement, for which one would like to have some authority.
[32] Ford, Hist. of Illinois, 82-86.
[33] Ford, Hist. of Illinois, 55, 86, 88,104; Herndon, 103; N. and H. i. 107; Lamon, 124, 230.