[Footnote 372:  Globe,31 Cong., 2 Sess., Debate of February 21 and 22, 1851.]

[Footnote 373:  Globe, 31 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 312.]

[Footnote 374:  Globe, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 1120.]

[Footnote 375:  MS. Letter dated December 30, 1851.]

[Footnote 376:  Mann, Life of Horace Mann, pp. 351, 358, 362.]

[Footnote 377:  Senator Foote introduced the subject December 2, 1851, by a resolution pronouncing the compromise measures a “definite adjustment and settlement.”]

[Footnote 378:  Rhodes, History of the United States, 1, p. 230.]

[Footnote 379:  Globe, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 68.]

[Footnote 380:  Globe, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 63.  About this time he wrote to a friend, “I shall act on the rule of giving the offices to those who fight the battles.”]

[Footnote 381:  Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 354.]

[Footnote 382:  Globe, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 70.]

[Footnote 383:  Globe,32 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 70-71.]

[Footnote 384:  See speech by Breckinridge of Kentucky in Globe, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 299 ff.]

[Footnote 385:  Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 115.]

[Footnote 386:  Statement by Richardson of Illinois in reply to J.C.  Breckinridge of Kentucky, March 3, 1852. Globe, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 302.]

[Footnote 387:  “What with his Irish Organs, his Democratic reviews and an armful of other strings, each industriously pulled, he makes a formidable show.”  Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 115.]

[Footnote 388:  MS. Letter, February 25, 1852.]

[Footnote 389:  Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 118.]

[Footnote 390:  Burke-Pierce Correspondence, printed in American Historical Review, X, pp. 110 ff.  See also Stanwood, History of the Presidency, p. 248, and Rhodes, History of the United States, I, pp. 251-252.]

[Footnote 391:  Proceedings of Democratic National Convention of 1852.]

[Footnote 392:  See Rhodes, History of the United States, I, pp. 424-425.]

[Footnote 393:  To attribute to Douglas, from this time on, as many writers have done, a purpose to pander to the South, is not only to discredit his political foresight, but to misunderstand his position in the Northwest and to ignore his reiterated assertions.]

[Footnote 394:  Richmond Enquirer, quoted in Illinois Register, August 3, 1852.]

[Footnote 395:  Illinois State Register, December 23, 1852.]

[Footnote 396:  Washington Union, November 30, 1852.  On a joint ballot of the legislature Douglas received 75 out of 95 votes.  See Illinois State Register, January 5, 1853.]

[Footnote 397:  Illinois State Register, December 23, 1852.]

[Footnote 398:  Smith, Parties and Slavery, pp. 88-93.]