When Lincoln, born in a border state, coming to manhood in the Northwest, and bred on Webster's doctrine,--"the Union is paramount",--accepted for the second time the Republican nomination and platform, he summed up the issues of the war, as he had done before, in Webster's words. Lincoln, who had grown as masterly in his choice of words as he had become profound in his vision of issues, used in 1864 not the more familiar and rhetorical phrases of the reply to Hayne, but the briefer, more incisive form, "Liberty and Union", of Webster's "honest, truth-telling, Union speech" on the 7th of March, 1850. [113] HERBERT DARLING FOSTER. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Cf. Parton with Lodge on intellect, morals, indolence, drinking, 7th of March speech, Webster's favorite things in England; references, note 63, below.] [Footnote 2: In the preparation of this article, manuscripts have been used from the following collections: the Greenough, Hammond, and Clayton (Library of Congress); Winthrop and Appleton (Mass. Hist. Soc.); Garrison (Boston Public Library); N.H. Hist. Soc.; Dartmouth College; Middletown (Conn.) Hist. Soc.; Mrs. Alfred E. Wyman.] [Footnote 3: Bennett, Dec. 1, 1848, to Partridge, Norwich University. MS. Dartmouth.] [Footnote 4: Houston, Nullification in South Carolina, p. 141. Further evidence of Webster's thesis that abolitionists had developed Southern reaction in Phillips, South in the Building of the Nation, IV, 401-403; and unpublished letters approving Webster's speech.] [Footnote 5: Calhoun, Corr., Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1899, vol 11.), pp. 1193-1194.] [Footnote 6: To Crittenden, Dec. 20, 1849, Smith, polit. Hist. Slavery, I. 122; Winthrop MSS., Jan. 6, 1850.] [Footnote 7: Calhoun, Corr., p. 781; cf. 764-766, 778, 780, 783-784.] [Footnote 8: Cong. Globe, XXI. 451-455, 463; Corr., p. 784. On Calhoun's attitude, Ames, Calhoun, pp. 6-7; Stephenson, in Yale Review, 1919, p. 216; Newbury in South Atlantic Quarterly, XI. 259; Hamer, Secession Movement in South Carolina, 1847-1852, pp. 49-54.] [Footnote 9: Calhoun, Corr., Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1899, vol. II), pp. 1210-1212; Toombs, Corr., (id., 1911, vol. II), pp. 188, 217; Coleman, Crittenden, I. 363; Hamer, pp. 55-56, 46-48, 54, 82-83; Ames, Calhoun, pp. 21-22, 29; Claiborne, Quitman, H. 36-39.] [Footnote 10: Hearon, Miss. and the Compromise of 1850, p. 209.] [Footnote 11: A letter to Webster, Oct. 22, 1851, Greenough MSS., shows the strength of Calhoun's secession ideas. Hamer, p. 125, quotes part.] [Footnote 12: Hamer, p. 142; Hearon, p. 220.] [Footnote 13: Mar. 6, 1850. Laws (Miss.), pp. 521-526.] [Footnote 14: Claiborne, Quitman, IL 37; Hearon, p. 161 n.] [Footnote 15: Hearon, pp. 180-181; Claiborne, Quitman, II. 51-52.] [Footnote 16: Nov. 10, 1850, Hearon, pp. 178-180; 1851, pp. 209-212.] [Footnote 17: Dec. 10, Southern Rights Assoc. Hearon, pp. 183-187.] [Footnote 18: Claiborne, Quitman, II. 52.]