Most interesting and trustworthy accounts of subjects discussed in the chapter are: T. C. Smith's _Parties and Slavery_, in _American Nation_ series; F. Bancroft's _The Life of William H. Seward_ (1900); Allen Johnson's _The Life of Stephen A. Douglas_ (1908); O. G. Villard's _John Brown; a Biography_ (1910); L. D. Scisco's _Political Nativism in New York_ (1901); William Salter's _Life of James W. Grimes_ (1876); George W. Julian's _Life of Joshua R. Giddings_ (1892). Rhodes, McMaster, and Schouler treat the period critically. Some special studies of importance are P. O. Ray's _Repeal of the Missouri Compromise_ (1909); Allen Johnson's _Genesis of Popular Sovereignty_ (_Iowa Journal of History and Politics_, _III_); F. H. Hodder's _Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act_ (_Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings_, 1912); and E. S. Corwin's _The Dred Scott Decision_ (_American Historical Review_, _XVII_). Some of the most instructive contemporary narratives will be found in M. W. Cluskey's _Political Text Book_ (1857), and _Speeches, Messages, and other Writings of A. G. Brown_ (1859); H. Wilson's _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power_ (1872-77); Horace Greeley's _The American Conflict_ (1864); Mrs. Jefferson Davis's _Jefferson Davis; a Memoir_ (1890); J. M. Cutts's _Constitutional and Party Questions_ (1866); S. J. May's _Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict_ (1869); _Works of Charles Sumner_ (1874-83), and many other works of a similar character. William McDonald's _Select Documents_ gives the most important sources for this whole period. But the _Congressional Globe_, _U.S. Documents, House Reports_, 34th Cong., 1st Sess., vol. _II_, must be studied in order to get the spirit of the times. CHAPTER XIII ABRAHAM LINCOLN