[Footnote 753:  Villard, Memoirs, I, p. 92.]

[Footnote 754:  Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 123.]

[Footnote 755:  Debates p. 173.]

[Footnote 756:  Ibid., p. 180.]

[Footnote 757:  Debates, p. 181.]

[Footnote 758:  Debates, p. 188.]

[Footnote 759:  Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp. 123-124.]

[Footnote 760:  Debates, p. 198.]

[Footnote 761:  Debates, p. 199; McClure’s Magazine, January, 1907.]

[Footnote 762:  Debates, p. 201.]

[Footnote 763:  Ibid., p. 201.]

[Footnote 764:  Debates, p. 204.]

[Footnote 765:  Ibid., p. 209.]

[Footnote 766:  Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 124.]

[Footnote 767:  Debates, p. 231.]

[Footnote 768:  Ibid., p. 218.]

[Footnote 769:  Debates, p. 234.]

[Footnote 770:  Ibid., p. 238.]

[Footnote 771:  Sheahan, Douglas, p. 432.]

[Footnote 772:  Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, II, p. 146 note.]

[Footnote 773:  Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 439-442; Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 128.]

[Footnote 774:  It has not been generally observed that the Democrats gained more than their opponents over the State contest of 1856.  The election returns were as follows: 

    Democratic ticket in 1856, 106,643; in 1858, 121,609; gain, 14,966. 
    Republican ticket in 1856, 111,375; in 1858, 125,430; gain, 14,055.
]

CHAPTER XVII

THE AFTERMATH

Douglas had achieved a great personal triumph.  Not even his Republican opponents could gainsay it.  In the East, the Republican newspapers applauded him undisguisedly, not so much because they admired him or lacked sympathy with Lincoln, as because they regarded his re-election as a signal condemnation of the Buchanan administration.  Moreover, there was a general expectation in anti-slavery circles to which Theodore Parker gave expression when he wrote, “Had Lincoln succeeded, Douglas would be a ruined man....  But now in place for six years more, with his own personal power unimpaired and his positional influence much enhanced, he can do the Democratic party a world of damage."[775] There was cheer in this expectation even for those who deplored the defeat of Lincoln.

As Douglas journeyed southward soon after the November elections, he must have felt the poignant truth of Lincoln’s shrewd observation that he was himself becoming sectional.  Though he was received with seeming cordiality at Memphis and New Orleans, he could not but notice that his speeches, as Lincoln predicted, “would not go current south of the Ohio River as they had formerly.”  Democratic audiences applauded his bold insistence upon the universality of the principles of the party creed, but the tone