evidence: - Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, editors, Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, p. 7 (New York Times, January 14, 1861). - Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, editors, Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, p. 253 (Letter from William H. Herndon to Wendell Phillips, February 1, 1861). [...] - Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, editors, Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, p. 6 (New York Evening Post, November 19, 1860).