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FOOTNOTES: 

[A] Journey in the Back Country.  By Frederick Law Olmsted.

[B] The Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sentinel, of June 3, contained a confirmation of these statements in regard to Northern Alabama.  A gentleman returned from ‘a prolonged tour through the cotton States’ communicated a narrative, which demonstrated that the people of Huntsville and vicinity were very hostile to secession in January, that ’at Athens the stars and stripes floated over the court house long after the State had enacted the farce of secession,’ and that, even in May, open opposition to secession existed ’in the mountain portion of Alabama, a large tract of country, embracing about one-third of the State, lying adjacent to and south of the Tennessee valley.’  The writer added, ’IN THEIR MOUNTAIN FASTNESSES THEY DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, OR THE POWER OF ITS RULERS.’

[C] It is proved, by the great increase of the cotton crop during this period, that the surplus increase of slaves was mainly composed of field hands purchased in the border States.

[D] ‘The Edwards Family;’ page 11.

[E] ’If some learned philosopher who had been abroad, in giving an account of the curious observations he had made in his travels, should say he had been in Terra del Fuego, and there had seen an animal, which he calls by a certain name, that begat and brought forth itself, and yet had a sire and dam distinct from itself; that it had an appetite and was hungry before it had a being; that his master, who led him and governed by him, and driven by him where he pleased; that when he moved he always took a step before the first step; that he went with his head first, and yet always went tail foremost, and this though he had neither head nor tail,’ etc. etc.—­Freedom of the Will, part 4.