[Footnote 851:  New York Times, July 3, 1860.]

[Footnote 852:  Ibid., June 26.]

[Footnote 853:  MS. letter, Douglas to C.H.  Lanphier, July 5, 1860.  He wrote in a similar vein to a friend in Missouri, July 4, 1860.]

[Footnote 854:  New York Times, July 20, 1860.]

[Footnote 855:  Ibid., July 21.]

[Footnote 856:  Ibid., July 21.]

[Footnote 857:  Ibid., July 24.]

[Footnote 858:  Ibid., July 28.]

[Footnote 859:  New York Times, July. 24.]

[Footnote 860:  Rhodes, History of the United States, II, pp. 482-483.]

[Footnote 861:  Wilson, Slave Power in America, II, p. 699.]

[Footnote 862:  This was the view of a well-informed correspondent of the New York Times, August 10, 14, 16, 1860.  From this point of view, Douglas’s tour through Maine in August takes on special significance.]

[Footnote 863:  Wilson, Slave Power in America, II, 699.]

[Footnote 864:  Rhodes, History of the United States, II, pp. 487, 489.]

[Footnote 865:  New York Times, August 16, 1860.]

[Footnote 866:  Ibid., August 29, 1860.]

[Footnote 867:  This can hardly be regarded as a sober opinion.  Clingman had become convinced by conversation with Douglas that he was not making the canvass in his own behalf, but in order to weaken and divide the South, so as to aid Lincoln.  Clingman, Speeches and Writings, p. 513.]

[Footnote 868:  Clingman, Speeches and Writings, p. 513.]

[Footnote 869:  North Carolina Standard, September 5, 1860.]

[Footnote 870:  Correspondent to New York Times, September 5, 1860.]

[Footnote 871:  Ibid., September 7, 1860.]

[Footnote 872:  New York Tribune, September 10, 1860.  Greeley did Douglas an injustice when he accused him of courting votes by favoring a protective tariff in Pennsylvania.  The misapprehension was doubtless due to a garbled associated press dispatch.]

[Footnote 873:  Clingman, Speeches and Writings, p. 513.]

[Footnote 874:  New York Times, September 27, 1860.]

[Footnote 875:  New York Times, September 13, 1860.]

[Footnote 876:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 877:  His movements were still followed by the New York Times, which printed his list of appointments.]

[Footnote 878:  Chicago Times and Herald, October 9, 1860.]

[Footnote 879:  Chicago Times and Herald, October 6, 1860.]

[Footnote 880:  Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, II, p. 700; see also Forney’s Eulogy of Douglas, 1861.]

[Footnote 881:  Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 493.]

[Footnote 882:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 883:  Chicago Times and Herald, October 24, 1860.]