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A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2008 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

A LITTLE-KNOWN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT FROM THE 1858 L INCOLN-DOUGLAS SENATE CAMPAIGN vorable relations with his father during the Canton, Illinois. Kellogg was an impor- By Bryon Andreasen mid-1840s, but also because Douglas had tant figure in Illinois’ early Republican Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library lately turned against the Latter-day Saints party, being one of its first congressional who had followed Brigham Young to the winners and an ally of Lincoln. Probably A visibly inebriated Stephen Douglas and Utah territory. Smith was still almost two in part through Kellogg’s influence, Smith an awkward Abraham Lincoln, who years away from assuming the mantle of had been one of only six Nauvoo voters to punched his head through the top of a leadership for the Reorganized Church of cast a presidential ballot for John C. Fre- platform canopy, are two of the more ar- Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS). mont in 1856. Nevertheless, Douglas and resting features from an obscure eyewit- But he had opposed the “Brighamites” Lincoln each had a fair shot at capturing ness account recalling the momentous since his teenage years when the Mormon the support of Joseph Smith III when they 1858 United States Senate race between community had splintered into factions individually came to speak in Carthage. Lincoln and Douglas. Making the account following the death of his father in 1844. even more interesting is the identity of the He agreed with Douglas’ characterization At least that’s how Smith recalled things man who gave it—Joseph Smith III, the of Utah Mormonism as a “loathsome, dis- fifty-five years later when, in his eighties, oldest surviving son of the founding Mor- gusting ulcer.” he dictated his memoirs. Though long mon prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr. known to those familiar with the history of Smith held antislavery views, however. the RLDS movement, Smith’s accounts of Joseph Smith III was just a few days shy This meant that Lincoln, as the candidate the respective Douglas and Lincoln visits of his twenty-sixth birthday when first for Illinois’ new Republican party, could to Carthage have largely escaped the at- Douglas and then Lincoln swooped into expect a sympathetic hearing from the tention of Lincoln scholars. Smith dic- Hancock County, Illinois, to make elev- soon-to-be church leader. Ten years ear- tated his memoirs to his son Israel during enth-hour appeals to their supporters and lier Smith had been impressed by Owen the last two years of his life (1913-1914), to perhaps sway the minds of undecided Lovejoy when the Illinois abolitionist con- after carefully reviewing sources and ma- voters like Smith. Douglas delivered three gressman had visited Nauvoo. Smith had terials collected over his lifetime. The speeches in Hancock County during the also studied law under William Kellogg at memoirs were not published, however, week immediately preceding the penulti- until Smith’s daughter, Mary Audentia mate Lincoln-Douglas debate at Quincy in Smith Anderson, edited them for serial mid-October. Lincoln, who had cam- publication in the weekly newsletter of the paigned in the county once in late August, RLDS church, the Saints Herald. The decided that his chances there were suffi- memoirs fill over 470 pages of three- ciently hopeful to justify a second speak- columned text. The series ran from No- ing tour during the closing days of the vember 6, 1934, to July 31, 1937. frenetic campaign. In a two day period toward the end of October he visited at The following transcriptions of Smith’s least four Hancock County communities accounts of the 1858 campaign visits to and delivered three speeches. Carthage by Douglas and Lincoln are based on the texts at page 530 in the April Carthage, the Hancock County seat, 23, 1935, issue, and page 559 of the April hosted the largest demonstrations for both 30, 1935, issue of the Saints Herald. candidates. And it was to the two Car- thage rallies—held a little over a week That summer of 1860 I recognize as a apart—that Joseph Smith III traveled from specific turning point in my career, both his home in Nauvoo to listen to the rival because of readjustments in my religious politicians. Smith was predisposed to contacts and because of changes in my think favorably of Stephen Douglas, not Joseph Smith III Circa 1860 political preferences and convictions. A only because Douglas had cultivated fa- Courtesy of Community of Christ Library Archives. (Continued on page 2) 2 A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PEOPLE

(Continued from page 1) ting so thick. You’d better go pull This stand and canopy were the same your uncle’s coat and have him stop as had been used the week before couple of years before, Stephen A. the man before he makes himself a when Mr. Douglas spoke, a few fresh Douglas had come into our neighbor- laughing-stock for everybody.” boughs having been added to the hood, speaking on prevailing topics, covering to replace those which had and I had listened to him earnestly, Manly followed my suggestion, and withered. glad to have the opportunity of hear- soon the chairman, after some hur- ing so widely-heralded an orator. He ried conference with others on the After the preliminaries were over, Mr. was the judge of the court at Mon- stand, reached a decision and, pulling Lincoln arose to speak, leaning mouth before whom my father was Mr. Douglas’ coat, said something to slightly forward to peer down at those brought in 1841 on an antiquated him which brought the speech to an in front of him. His eyes were dull, writ from Missouri. Upon hearing end. Arising, Mr. Morrill explained his manner awkward, and his voice the testimony of witnesses and the to the audience that the speaker was sharp. For one, I felt very sorry for able speech of O. H. Browning, of suddenly indisposed and would not be him, my heart literally aching in my Quincy, in defense, he had freed Fa- able to finish his speech at that time. breast. This sensation may have been ther of the prosecution urged against pity, or it may have been caused by a him. Thus I was strongly prejudiced degree of shame for him and for the in favor of Judge Douglas, and when So away went Mr. Douglas, and away went my prejudices in his favor, fol- party he represented. I cannot accu- it was advertised that he would speak rately analyze the feeling, but what- at Carthage, on October 15 (1858) I lowing which upheaval I was perhaps quite ready for a transfer of my politi- ever it was, it was destined to be short went over to hear him. Notwith- lived, for he had spoken only a very standing the position I understood he cal allegiance to his opposing party, should it prove that its representative, few minutes when he abandoned his had assumed in regard to “State’s scheduled to speak the following stooping posture, stepped a little back rights,” I was still strongly impressed week, were equal to Senator Douglas from the front of the platform, in his favor, and listened to him ea- in wisdom and superior to him in squared his shoulders and attempted gerly. sobriety! to straighten up. His head came into sudden contact with the bows above However, after he had spoken for a him. A humorous expression crossed while, he showed unmistakable signs The next week, on the same day of the his face and turning his head slightly of intoxication, was unsteady on his week, I drove over to Carthage again to one side, with a sudden movement feet, and his words were pronounced and listened to the Republican cham- he thrust it upward, entirely through with difficulty. We, sitting on the pion, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. I do not that bowery business above him! mind confessing that when I first saw outskirts of the assembly, could not There he stood towering, like some him coming into the court house yard understand what he was saying. The queer creature whose head was de- I was greatly bewildered, for he chairman of the meeting was the De- tached from its body! looked so inferior to what I had in mocrat, Milton M. Morrill, whom I mind. He was accompanied to the have already mentioned as a relative A great shout of laughter greeted this stand by a man named McCall, the of Justin Smith Morrill of Maine, the performance, and a lively patter of tallest man in Carthage Township but man with a national reputation in approving hand-clapping. A bevy of one who did not “cut much of figure” connection with tariff matters. Mr. men sprang to the rescue and soon Milton Morrill may have been a mem- beside the noted speaker. removed the greenery from about his ber of the Illinois House of Represen- neck and overhead, leaving him free tatives at the time—I am not sure. I The latter quietly took his place upon to stand erect at his own magnificent recall that a Senator named Bryant T. the platform, where a number of men height. Schofield (also a leading Democrat), were managing the meeting. Among them was a young lawyer named was on the platform, as well as sev- His eyes brightened, his gestures took George W. Draper, whom I remember eral others. Standing near the ros- on an unstudied grace, his voice lost well. I was strangely depressed. Mr. trum was a young lawyer of my city, its harsh and strident accents, and in Lincoln’s appearance was anything named Manly M. Tilton, a nephew to a few moments his oratory and argu- but prepossessing or reassuring, and Mr. Morrill. So I beckoned to him to ment held us spellbound. I forgot the before the meeting opened I sat come sit down by me, which he did, man, forgot that aching sense of pity watching him with a decided sense of and I whispered: or shame that had burned in my perplexity. bosom, and by the time the lecture “Tilton, if I were as near to the chair- was over, I was completely and alto- man by family and political connec- The platform had been erected in gether a Lincoln man, with a political tions as you are, I should certainly go front of two windows of the court conscience more firmly fixed than and call his attention to Mr. Douglas’ house. Over it a bowery had been ever in its opposition to slavery and condition. We can’t understand a constructed in order to shield the evils. thing he is saying, his tongue is get- notables from the rays of the sun. FOR THE PEOPLE A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION 3

AN INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING: GEORGE G. MEADE AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE WAKE OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

By Eric J. Wittenberg

Few generals in history have faced the challenges withstood by George Gordon Meade. Meade assumed command of the Army of the Poto- mac on June 28, 1863, knowing that a major battle with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was imminent. Meade had to depend on his predecessor’s chief of staff, Ma- jor General Daniel Butterfield, whom he despised, and had no op- portunity to put his own staff in place. Instead, the army was on the march, headed for a date with des- tiny just north of the Mason-Dixon Line. General George G. Meade and the Council of War at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Under extremely adverse circum- Engraving by James E. Kelly stances and seemingly against all odds, Meade defeated Lee’s army held the advantage throughout the himself was determined to do so. on the field of battle. At the end of retreat, much to President Abraham However, Lee’s army made its es- three brutal days of bloodletting, the Lincoln’s consternation. However, cape before the Army of the Poto- gates of hell slammed shut late on days of heavy rains caused the Poto- mac could launch an all-out assault the afternoon of July 3, 1863. In the mac River to rise rapidly beyond along the lines on the morning of course of winning his great victory, flood stage, meaning that Meade July 14, 1863. When Meade re- Meade’s army took nearly 25% would get his opportunity to bring ported that Lee’s army had escaped, casualties, including three of its the Gray Fox’s still-dangerous army he received a blistering telegram seven infantry corps commanders, to bay. from Halleck in response. “The including the commanding general’s escape of Lee’s army without an- two most trusted subordinates. Lincoln and Meade did not know other battle has created great dissat- Consequently, when Lee’s Army of each other. Unlike his predecessors isfaction in the mind of the Presi- Northern Virginia began its retreat in army command, the general and dent, and it will require an energetic on the night of July 3, Meade had to the commander in chief had no per- pursuit on your part to remove the be cautious. First and foremost, he sonal relationship. This made effec- impression that it has been suffi- had to make sure that Lee was actu- tive communications all the more ciently active heretofore.” Halleck ally heading back to Virginia. difficult. The fact that nearly all of accurately echoed the sentiments of Meade had orders to keep his army their communications were either the Lincoln administration. between Lee and Washington, D.C. by telegraph or letter left room for at all times. Second, he had to misinterpretation and misconstruc- “We had them in our grasp,” com- make sure that Lee did not intend to tion, and that only made a difficult plained President Lincoln to his hole up in the mountains of central situation worse. Lincoln, a notori- secretary, John Hay. “We had only Pennsylvania. Third, he had to find ous armchair general, wanted to stretch forth our hands and they suitable replacements for his corps Meade to move rapidly and pounce were ours. And nothing I could say commanders. Fourth, because he on Lee’s army while it was trapped or do could make the Army move.” had to keep his army interposed against the banks of the flooded On July 17, Lincoln proclaimed at a between Lee and the national capi- Potomac River. cabinet meeting, “Meade had made tal, he would have a longer, less a terrible mistake.” On July 22, direct route of march to the river All along, Lincoln, through his gen- Stanton wrote, “Since the world crossings in and around Williams- eral-in-chief, Major General Henry began no man ever missed so great port, Maryland. All of these factors W. Halleck, had been urging Meade meant that Lee’s army seized and to attack, and the Pennsylvanian (Continued on page 4) 4 A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PEOPLE

Gideon Welles. “Who among them

(Continued from page 3) is any better than Meade? To sweep away the whole of them an opportunity of serving his coun- from the chief command and sub- try as was lost by [Meade’s] ne- stitute a new man would cause a glecting to strike his adversary.” shock and be likely to lead to com- binations and troubles greater than Offended by the tone of Halleck’s we now have,” he concluded. wire, Meade turned to his old While Lincoln believed a great friend, Brig. Gen. Rufus Ingalls, the opportunity had been lost, he real- Army of the Potomac’s quartermas- ized that there were no good alter- ter general, and asked, “Ingalls, natives. don’t you want to take command of this army?” On July 18, Maj. Gen. O. O. How-

“No, I thank you,” replied Ingalls. ard, commander of the Army of the “It’s too big an elephant for me.” Potomac’s Eleventh Corps, wrote General George G. Meade to the president in defense of

“Well,” retorted Meade, “it’s too big Mathew Brady Meade. “As to not attacking the for me, too.” The testy and insulted Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. enemy prior to leaving his strong- army commander requested that he hold beyond the Antietam it is by be relieved of command of the Army slightest pain to you,” wrote Lin- no means certain that the repulse at of the Potomac, a request quickly coln. However, he did not try to Gettysburg might not have been declined by Halleck. hide his disappointment. “Again, turned against us,” wrote Howard. my dear general, I do not believe “At any rate the Commanding Gen- President Lincoln vented his frus- you appreciate the magnitude of the eral was in favor of an immediate tration in a letter to the army com- misfortune involved in Lee’s es- attack but with the evident difficul- mander—however, he never sent cape. He was within your easy ties in our way the uncertainty of a this letter. “I have just seen your grasp, and to have closed upon him success and the strong conviction dispatch to General Halleck, asking would, in connection with our late of our best military minds against to be relieved of your command, successes, have ended the war. As the risk, I must say, that I think the because of some supposed censure it is the war will be prolonged in- general acted wisely.” After read- of mine. I am very—very— definitely. If you could not safely ing Howard’s words, Lincoln re- grateful to you for the magnificent attack Lee last Monday, how can considered his position and held success you gave the cause of the you possibly do so South of the out an olive branch to the tempes- country at Gettysburg; and I am river, when you take with you very tuous army commander. sorry now to be the author of the few more than two thirds of the force you then had in hand? It A week after Lee’s army crossed to would be unreasonable to expect, safety, Lincoln responded to and I do not expect you can now Meade. “I am now profoundly effect much. Your golden opportu- grateful for what was done, without nity is gone, and I am distressed criticism for what was not done,” immeasurably because of it.” One wrote the president. “General can only wonder what effect this Meade has my confidence as a letter would have had on Meade brave and skillful officer, and a true had Lincoln forwarded it. man.”

Meade withstood storms of protest over his conduct of the pursuit of Unfortunately, the Committee on Lee’s army, and within days, calls the Conduct of the War, an ad hoc for his relief went up. However, commission made up of Radical there was no one else to take com- Republicans from both the House mand of the Army of the Potomac. of Representatives and Senate, did “What can I do with such generals not feel the same way. The Joint as we have?” complained Lincoln Committee convened a series of General H. W. Halleck hearings during the winter of 1863- to his Secretary of the Navy, Mathew Brady 64, intending to find reasons to Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. FOR THE PEOPLE A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION 5 remove Meade from command. had lived through Gettysburg and New Members The hearings dragged on into early slogged through its retreat—those spring, and members of the Com- who would see more bloody earth We welcome our new members. mittee trotted out any general offi- at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Senator Rod Adair cer of the Army of the Potomac Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Ap- Roswell, New Mexico most likely to be unfriendly to pomattox—these words rang true Meade, and elicited their opinions with a dark portent that none could Ron Andersen on the general’s conduct of the have ever anticipated. Salt Lake City, Utah campaign. Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio, one of the most K. Stephen Anderson The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of Chicago, Illinois the Official Records of the Union and Con- prominent of the Radical Republi- cans, led the cabal against Meade. federate Armies, 128 volumes in 3 series (Washington, D.C.: United States Govern- Richard J. Behn Finally, in February 1864, the ment Printing Office, 1889), series 1, vol. New Rochelle, New York Committee abandoned its efforts, 27, part 3, 687 (hereinafter, “O.R.”. All clearly having failed. However, the further references are to Series 1, unless Orville Vernon Burton Urbana, Illinois experience left a bitter taste in otherwise noted).

Meade’s mouth when the Commit- Tyler Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil Terri Cameron tee managed to portray him as a War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay Springfield, Illinois (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939), 67. mediocre and uncommitted general Ibid., 69. David and Martha Cohen who permitted Lee’s army to es- cape largely unmolested. That, Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Severna Park, Maryland perhaps, was the greatest tragedy of Hyman, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War (New York: James Dueholm all—George Gordon Meade had Alfred Knopf, 1962), 275. Washington, D.C. conducted a nearly flawless cam- A. Wilson Greene, “Meade’s Pursuit of Lee: James and Paula Finn paign, had won the Civil War’s From Gettysburg to Falling Waters,” in- Decatur, Illinois pivotal battle, and had made the cluded in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond (Chapel Hill: correct choice in not attacking the William J. Griffin nearly impregnable defensive posi- University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 173. Chicago, Illinois tion occupied at Williamsport by O. R. vol. 27, part 1, 93. Lee’s army. Whitney D. Hardy Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Shelbyville, Illinois Abraham Lincoln, 8 vols. with index. (New Perhaps the Richmond Enquirer put Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Dennis Higashiguchi it best: 6:327-28. Honolulu, Hawaii

John T. Morse, ed., The Diary of Gideon Lincoln, Seward, Halleck, and the Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln Illinois State Historical Society Springfield, Illinois whole Yankee press, are hugging and Johnson, 3 vols. (New York: Houghton- Mifflin, 1911), 1:440. themselves in the delusion that they Robert L. Krasner Basler, The Collected Works, 6:341. already see the end of the war, and Lantana, Florida that [that] end is, to us, the death Ibid. of our liberty, and the beginning of For a detailed evaluation of the Joint Com- Richard McCormick mittee on the Conduct of the War’s efforts Bellevue, Kentucky an interminable servitude. To their taunts and sneers we reply, in the to undermine George Gordon Meade, see Bruce Tap, “Bad Faith Somewhere: George R. Eden Martin defiant language of Paul Jones, Gordon Meade and the Committee on the Glencoe, Illinois “We have not yet begun to Conduct of the War,” North & South 2 fight.”… This people has never yet (August 1999): 74-81. Paul J. Meginnis Des Moines, Iowa put forth its strength to half its ex- Richmond Dispatch, July 17, 1863. tent, furious as has been the war in Ernest & Susan Pianalto which it has been engaged, mighty Eric J. Wittenberg is an attorney and author of over one dozen books and numerous arti- Diamond Bar, California as have been its struggles, glorious cles on the American Civil War. His specialty as have been its victories… What is the cavalry operations of both the Union Donna Schechter we have done is scarcely a type of and the Confederates in the eastern theatre. Springfield, Illinois what we can do.” This article is drawn from the research and writing of the just published One Continuous John A. Zervas Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Ocean Grove, New Jersey The bias and forced rhetoric of Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia these words aside, for those who July 4-14, 1863, which he co-authored with J. David Petruzzi and Michael F. Nugent. 6 A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PEOPLE

day, to commemorate the centen- Music by American composers, An American Dream nial of the Springfield 1908 Race including Aaron Copland’s Concert Riot, and to celebrate the foundings “Lincoln Portrait,” and “We Shall of the National Association for the Overcome,” led by the Feitshans

Advancement of Colored People Academy Honor Choir in Spring- (NAACP) and the ALA, “An field and The Boys and Girls Club American Dream” presented a Chorus in Bloomington, served not unique partnership opportunity only to move the audience, but also between the ALA and the NAACP. to inspire each listener to do what

they can to increase racial harmony With funding and additional sup- and understanding in our city, state, Kathryn Harris port provided from community and nation and thereby be a partici- organizations including State Farm pant in helping us truly achieve The event held on the evening of Insurance, The Illinois Humanities “An American Dream.” February 11, 2008 was unlike any Council, Horace Mann Insurance, other Lincoln birthday celebration Merrill Lynch, Illinois Arts Coun- that our Association has sponsored. cil, University of Illinois at Spring- The brainchild of Association field, SIU Physicians and Surgeons, President Dick Hart, “An American Bloomington Performing Arts Cen- Dream” featured orchestral music ter and the ISO, “An American by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra Dream” included Negro spirituals, (ISO); vocal music by Springfield the words of Abraham Lincoln, and Bloomington singers; and spo- Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, ken word by Springfield, Bloom- Ida B. Wells and others who strug- ington, and guest narrators. gled so that ALL Americans might achieve the “American Dream.” To celebrate Lincoln’s 199th birth-

IN MEMORIAM

Winifred L. Barringer (1921-2008) Winifred Lois Douglas Wain Bar- they named Thirkelow Meadows ringer passed away in Springfield after Winifred’s ancestral home in on February 21, 2008. Winifred England from the 1600s. was the wife of former ALA Winifred was an avid collector of President Dr. Floyd Barringer and English and early Illinois antiques. mother of former ALA Treasurer She and Floyd were responsible and Board Member, Judith. for saving a number of historic

homes in Springfield. From 1968 Born September 25, 1921, at to 1983, they owned the Elijah Dormy Nook, her family home in Iles House, Springfield’s oldest the New York Catskill Mountains, home, and had it placed on the in 1929, she sailed to England on National Register of Historic the Aquitania to live with her Barringer, who went there as a Places, which preserved the house grandparents at The Grange, in volunteer for medical services for future restoration. Her mid- Ripley, Derbyshire. with Doctors For Britain to help in 1800s Illinois furniture, glass and the war effort. Winifred graduated from the Cal- pottery collections are currently der Girls School in Cumberland, Winifred and Floyd married on on display at the Elijah Iles the Children’s Hospital in Derby June 2, 1945, in Ripley and re- House. In the late ‘60s, Winifred and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital turned to America on April 6, and Floyd restored Springfield’s in Birmingham as a nurse. It was 1946. In 1950, they moved to a Freeman Hughes House and at the QE that she met Dr. Floyd farm west of Springfield, which opened it as a museum.

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NEW BOARD MEMBERS: The Abraham Lincoln Association

R. EDEN MARTIN and MARK E. NEELY, JR. Richard E. Hart President

R. Eden Martin Mark E. Neely, Jr. Barbara Hughett Robert J. Lenz Robert Willard Vice Presidents

Thomas F. Schwartz Secretary

Robert A. Stuart, Jr. Treasurer

Roger D. Bridges Immediate Past-President

Mary Shepherd Executive Assistant

Board of Directors

Kenneth L. Anderson R. Eden Martin grew up in Sullivan, Mark E. Neely, Jr. is McCabe-Greer Molly M. Becker Illinois, and has practiced law in Chi- Professor of Civil War History at Michael Burlingame Brooks Davis cago since 1967. He was a partner and Pennsylvania State University. A Nancy Chapin Robert J. Davis Chairman of the Management Commit- prolific writer on Abraham Lincoln Rodney O. Davis tee of the international law firm of and the Civil War era, Neely is best Robert S. Eckley Guy Fraker Sidley Austin, and is today Counsel to known for his Pulitzer Prize win- Allen C. Guelzo Kathryn M. Harris the Firm. He also serves as President ning The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Earl W. Henderson, Jr. of The Commercial Club of Chicago Lincoln and Civil Liberties. His Fred B. Hoffmann David Joens and its Civic Committee. He is a Life recent research has explored party Ron J. Keller Lee McTurnan Member and past Chairman of the organization and behavior in the Richard W. Maroc Board of the Chicago History Museum, Civil War, as reflected in The Union R. Eden Martin Myron Marty and a member of the Board of the Abra- Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil Richard Mills Susan Mogerman ham Lincoln Presidential Library Foun- War North and The Boundaries of Mark E. Neely, Jr. dation in Springfield. He is the author American Political Culture in the James W. Patton, III Mark Plummer of several books on the history of Civil War Era. William G. Shepherd Brooks D. Simpson Moultrie County, Illinois. See his web- Daniel Stowell site at edenmartin.com. Nicky Stratton Louise Taper Timothy P. Townsend Donald R. Tracy Andy Van Meter Daniel R. Weinberg Stewart L. Winger WHAT ARE THE ALA PLANS FOR FEBRUARY 12, 2009? Kenneth J. Winkle

Funny you should ask. At this moment, I cannot give you specifics Honorary Directors

other than to say that we will have a full calendar of events for both Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Senator Richard Durbin February 11th and 12th. Senator Barack Obama

Congressman Ray LaHood The ALA has been working closely with the Illinois Abraham Lincoln Congressman John Shimkus Bicentennial Commission, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Justice Rita Garman Mayor Timothy J. Davlin Foundation, the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and the Lincoln Emeritus Directors Home National Park to plan for a variety of events that will honor the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The ALA will have its traditional ban- Cullom Davis Georgia Northrup quet on the evening of February 12 with speaker(s) to be announced. Harlington Wood, Jr.

Look for details in the next issue of For the People. Distinguished Directors

Mario M. Cuomo Mary Shepherd, Executive Assistant David Herbert Donald John Hope Franklin Harry V. Jaffa Robert W. Johannsen Garry Wills 8 A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PEOPLE

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CALENDAR OF COMING ALA EVENTS

June 20, 2008 Judge Treat Monument Dedication Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield

September 7, 2008 Lincoln Press Conference, Ravinia George Buss, Lincoln impersonator, will field questions from the press.

October 10, 2008 2:00 ALA Board of Directors Meeting and Dinner Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg

October 11, 2008 The Lincoln Colloquium, Knox College, Galesburg

October 16, 2008 Lincoln Press Conference, Peoria George Buss, Lincoln impersonator, will field questions from the press.

February 11, 2009 5:30 ALA Reception and Opening of Lincoln in Illinois Great Hall, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

February 12, 2009 10:00 ALA Board of Directors Meeting, Springfield Morning: Meet the Authors. Afternoon: Naturalization Ceremony Hall of Representatives, Old State Capitol, Springfield 6:00 Lincoln Day Banquet 200th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Birth Crowne Plaza Hotel, Springfield