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expectations”); Heidler and Heidler,
Henry Clay
, p. xx, n. 24 (no corroborating evidence).
    67 . Gouverneur,
As I Remember
, p. 170; Beveridge, v. 2, p. 102 (“scrambling village”); Busey,
Personal Reminiscences
, p. 65 (pigs and geese); Green,
Washington
, v. 1, pp. 164 (muddy streets), 156 (“English woolens”), 173 (“city of Washington”).
    68 . Findley,
A. Lincoln: Crucible of Congress
, p. 85; Randall,
Mary Lincoln
, pp. 107–8 (Lincolns arrived); Beveridge, v. 2, p. 101 (unpleasant welcome); Riddle,
Congressman Lincoln
, pp. 8, 13 (laconic record).
    69 . Watterston,
New Guide to Washington
, pp. 24–25; Riddle,
Congressman Lincoln
, p. 31; Beveridge, v. 2, pp. 108–109; Browne,
Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln
, p. 191 (“roar of laughter”).
    70 . LaFeber,
The American Age
, p. 88; Bemis,
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
, pp. 8, 182, 253.
    71 . Adams’s “monsters” speech, it is worth noting, was intended as a challenge to those Americans who wished to aid foreign revolutionaries in the early 1820s; it was written long before the Mexican War. My thanks to George C. Herring for stressing this point. See also Howe,
What Hath God Wrought
, p. 742 (“irreconcilables”); Carpenter,
Inner Life
, p. 212; Schroeder,
Mr. Polk’s War
(Madison, 1973).
    72 . Polk, “Third Annual Message,” Dec. 7, 1847, in Richardson, ed.,
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
,
1789–1897
, v. 4 (Washington, 1897), pp. 532–64.
    73 . Fuller,
Movement for the Acquisition of All Mexico
, p. 61 (All-Mexico);
New York Herald
, Oct. 8, 1847, quoted in ibid., p. 82. See also Merk,
Manifest Destiny
, p. 123 (“Sabine virgins”);
Illinois State Register
, Nov. 12, 1847, quoted in Merk, p. 148 (“philanthropy and benevolence”).
    74 . Howe,
What Hath God Wrought
, p. 807 (“sensationalism”); Merk,
Manifest Destiny
, p. 120n29; Johannsen,
To the Halls of the Montezumas
, p. 243; CG, 30th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 79, quoted in Fuller,
Movement for the Acquisition of All Mexico
, p. 103.
    75 . Weinberg,
Manifest Destiny
, p. 161 (“American democracy”); Fuller,
Movement for the Acquisition of All Mexico
, p. 81; and Weinberg,
Manifest Destiny
, p. 161 (evangelical revival); New York
Herald
, Jan. 30, 1848, quoted in Fuller,
Movement for the Acquisition of All Mexico
, pp. 107–8 (“evidence of civilization”). See also Weinberg,
Manifest Destiny
, p. 175.
    76 . Polk,
Diary of James K. Polk
, v. 2, Dec. 22, 1846, p. 288, quoted in Merry, p. 331 (Polk’s diary);
Appendix to CG
, 29th Cong., 2nd Sess., p. 217; Beveridge, v. 1, pp. 107n4, 120–21; and Merk,
Manifest Destiny
, p. 96 (Giddings). See also Monaghan, p. 64, and Boritt, “Lincoln’s Opposition to the Mexican War,” p. 89.
    77 . Lincoln, “Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps,” c. June 1860, in
CWL
, v. 4, pp. 61–66 (“in the president”); and “Speech at Wilmington, Del.,” June 10, 1848, in ibid., v. 1, p. 476.
    78 . Lincoln, “ ‘Spot’ Resolutions in the United States House of Representatives,” in ibid., v. 1, pp. 421–22.
    79 . Lincoln to Herndon, Jan. 8, 1848, in ibid., v. 1, p. 430.
    80 . Lincoln to Herndon, Feb. 1, 1848, in ibid., v. 1, p. 448.
    81 . Lincoln to Herndon, Feb. 15, 1848, in ibid., v. 1, pp. 451–52.
    82 . Ibid. (“constitutional argument”). Mark E. Neely Jr. emphasizes this point. See Neely, “Lincoln and the Mexican War,” pp. 6–7. See also Lincoln to Herndon, July 11, 1848, in
CWL
, v. 1, p. 499 (“while you’re young!”).
    83 . Herndon to Parker, Nov. 27, 1858, quoted in Newton,
Lincoln and Herndon
, pp. 245–46 (“young, undisciplined”); Herndon, “Big Me,” reel 11, HW, LOC (“somewhat of a radical”); HL, p. 228 (lead to abolition); Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln,” pp. 349, 351 (“Godward”). Herndon made these observations after the Civil War. He presumably was referring to the latter conflict, but it seems safe