The ethics of rhetoric

by Richard M. Weaver

[70] Op. cit., p. 206.

[71] Most of Lincoln’s associates in Illinois—including David Davis, Orville H. Browning, John M. Palmer, Lyman Trumbull, Leonard Swett, and Ward Hill Lamon—who had been ardent Republicans before the war, left the party in the years following. See David Donald, Lincoln’s Herndon (New York, 1948), p. 263.

[72] Op. cit., p. 203.

[73] Abraham Lincoln (Boston and New York, 1928), II, 549.

[74] John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History (New York, 1904), II, 46.

[75] Herndon’s Lincoln (Springfield, Ill., 1921), III, 594.

[76] Ibid., p. 595.

[77] The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Philip van Doren Stern (New York, 1940), p. 239. This source, hereafter referred to as Writings, is the most complete one-volume edition of Lincoln’s works.

[78] Loc. cit.

[79] Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Marion Mills Miller (New York, 1907), II, 41. This speech is not included in Stern’s Writings.