[Footnote 741: Debates, p. 136.] [Footnote 742: Debates, pp. 137-143.] [Footnote 743: See above pp. 303-304.] [Footnote 744: Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, p. 122.] [Footnote 745: Debates, p. 159.] [Footnote 746: _Ibid._, p. 157.] [Footnote 747: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 342.] [Footnote 748: Foote, Casket of Reminiscences, p. 135; Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 127.] [Footnote 749: Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 129.] [Footnote 750: Coleman, Life of Crittenden, II, p. 163.] [Footnote 751: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 341.] [Footnote 752: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 338, note 3. The record of the Circuit Court of Cook County, December term, 1867, states that the entire lien upon the estate in 1864 exceeded $94,000. The mortgages were held by Fernando Wood and others of New York.] [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.