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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 9. (search)
in Southern Indiana. Lincoln nominated for Congress. the canvass against Peter Cartwright. Lincoln elected. in Congress. the spot resolutions. Opposes the Mexeed not be told whom the Democrats placed in the field against him. It was Peter Cartwright, the famous Methodist divine and circuit rider. An energetic canvass of tre of business in the law office entirely. He had a formidable competitor in Cartwright, who not only had an extensive following by reason of his church influence, bg which operated much to Lincoln's disadvantage was the report circulated by Cartwright's friends with respect to Lincoln's religious views. He was charged with thetoo, played its part; but all these opposing circumstances were of no avail. Cartwright was personally very popular, but it was plain the people of the Springfield dte separation of Church and State. The election, therefore, of such a man as Cartwright would not, to their way of thinking, tend to promote such a result. I was en
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 2. (search)
imation by his prompt enlistment to defend the frontier. Successive announcements in the Journal had by this time swelled the list of candidates to thirteen. But Sangamon County was entitled to only four representatives, and when the returns came in Lincoln was among those defeated. Nevertheless, he made a very respectable showing in the race. The list of successful and unsuccessful aspirants and their votes was as follows: E. D. Taylor1127 John T. Stuart991 Achilles Morris945 Peter Cartwright815 Under the plurality rule, these four had been elected. The unsuccessful candidates were: A. G. Herndon806 W. Carpenter774 J. Dawson717 A. Lincoln657 T. M. Neale571 R. Quinton485 Z. Peter214 E. Robinson169 — Kirkpatrick44 The returns show that the total vote of the county was about twenty-one hundred and sixty-eight. Comparing this with the vote cast for Lincoln, we see that he received nearly one third of the total county vote, notwithstanding his absence from the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), A Crisp letter. (search)
had all I owe you, but the rags died on my hands. If your own money is dead, bury it, and preach its funeral sermon, but do not charge the expenses to me, but to the Secessionists. I hope General Lyon will catch tory Jackson, and hang him on the first tree he comes to. Union men ought to arm themselves from head to heels, and shoot down every traitor they come to. If God will have mercy on me, I would rather die, than that this glorious Government should be overthrown. If we must be destroyed, I hope the Lord will do it, and not give us into the power of tories. The army worm is making a dreadful sweep of our meadows, wheat and corn. We are threatened with drought here. We have had no rain for four weeks. If the Union men need help to kill traitors, call on Illinois. We can send you twenty thousand good men and true. Rivers of blood will flow, but this Union must stand though the heavens fall. Peter Cartwright. pleasant plains, July 17, 1861. --St. Louis Christian Advocate.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
ive would place him in a fourth before the ensuing winter; he is incarcerated, shut from the common air, buried in the depths of the boundless forest; the breeze of health never reaches these poor wanderers; the Low water, Mississippi. broad prospect of distant hills having faded away, the semblance of clouds never cheered their sight; they are tall and pale, like vegetables that grow in a vault pining for light. Even the religious life half a century ago was crude and emotional. Peter Cartwright, the political rival of Abraham Lincoln, and a real intellectual and moral force, gives us a vivid picture of the home missionary's life at a time when all the clergy were practically home missionaries. Starting in 1816 as a travelling preacher, on a nominal allowance of eighty dollars a year, and a few dollars over made as marriage fees ; preaching four hundred times a year, and receiving converts who jumped from bench to bench, knocking the people against one another on the right and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Strickland, William Peter 1809-1884 (search)
Strickland, William Peter 1809-1884 Clergyman; born in Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 17, 1809; was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832; later entered the Presbyterian Church, and was pastor in Bridghampton, L. I., in 1865-77. His publications include History of the American Bible Society; Pioneers of the West; Old MacKINAWinaw, or the fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings; Life of Jacob Gruber, etc.; also edited the Life of Peter Cartwright. He died in Ocean Grove, N. J., July 15, 1884.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
ious views, he was, in short, an infidel. * * * He did not believe that Jesus was God, nor the Son of God. Mr. Lincoln told me a thousand times that he did not believe the Bible was a revelation from God. * * * The points that Mr. Lincoln tried to demonstrate (in his book), were: First, that the Bible was not God's revelation; and, second, that Jesus was not the Son of God. Another letter of Herndon's, published in Lamon's Life (page 492, et seq.), says of Lincoln's contest with the Rev. Peter Cartwright for Congress in 1848 (page 494): In that contest he was accused of being an infidel, if not an atheist; he never denied the charge—would not; would die first, because he knew it could be and would be proved on him. Herndon concedes the indecency of the jokes and stories, and gives (Volume I, page 55) a copy of The First Chronicle of Reuben, and an account of the slight provocation under which Lincoln wrote it; and, in two foot-notes, describes the exceedingly base and indecent d