Adding a slightly different version from Emanuel Hertz's "Lincoln Talks: a biography in anecdote" .... and I can't get the full quote from Google books. So I'm just adding one line.....below Page 206 of John C. Waugh's book "One Man Great Enough" "Lincoln was on the circuit when news of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise reached Illinois. Judge Theophilus Lyle Dickey, who was sharing a room with him at a local tavern, said Lincoln sat on the edge of the bed and discussed the situation far into the night. Dickey finally fell asleep, but when he awoke the next morning Lincoln was still sitting up in bed, deep in thought. 'I tell you, Dickey,' he said, picking up where he had left off the night before, 'this nation cannot exist half-slave and half-free!' [footnote 10] 'Oh, Lincoln,' said I, 'go to sleep.'" Judge Theophilus Lyle Dickey, in the Bloomington "Pantograph" R