[Footnote 424:  Connelley, The Provisional Government of the Nebraska Territory, published by the Nebraska State Historical Society, pp. 23-24.]

[Footnote 425:  Connelley, Provisional Government, p. 28.]

[Footnote 426:  Globe, 31 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 56-58.]

[Footnote 427:  House Bill No. 353; 32 Cong., 2 Sess.]

[Footnote 428:  Globe, 32 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 558.]

[Footnote 429:  Ibid., p. 560.]

[Footnote 430:  Ibid., p. 565.]

[Footnote 431:  Ibid., p. 1020.]

[Footnote 432:  Globe 32 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 1116-1117.]

[Footnote 433:  Ibid., p. 1113.]

[Footnote 434:  Connelley, Provisional Government, pp. 43 ff.]

[Footnote 435:  Ibid., pp. 37-41.]

[Footnote 436:  Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 183; Connelley, pp. 70-77.]

[Footnote 437:  See Hadley D. Johnson’s account in the Transactions of the Nebraska Historical Society, Vol.  II.]

[Footnote 438:  Illinois State Register, December 22, 1853.]

[Footnote 439:  MS. Letter to the editors of the Illinois State Register, dated November 11, 1853.]

[Footnote 440:  Washington Union, December 3, 1853.  See also item showing the interest in Nebraska, in the issue of November 26.]

[Footnote 441:  Senate Bill No. 22.  The bounds were fixed at 43 deg. on the north; 36 deg. 30’ on the south, except where the boundary of New Mexico marked the line; the western line of Iowa and Missouri on the east; and the Rocky Mountains on the west.]

[Footnote 442:  Illinois State Register, December 22, 1853.]

[Footnote 443:  New York Journal of Commerce, December 30, 1853.]

[Footnote 444:  Two years later, Douglas flatly denied that he had brought in the bill at the dictation of Atchison or any one else; and I see no good ground on which to doubt his word.  His own statement was that he first consulted with Senator Bright and one other Senator from the Northwest, and then took counsel with Southern friends.  See Globe, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 392-393; also Rhodes, History of the United States, I, pp. 431-432.  Mr. Rhodes is no doubt correct, when he says “the committee on territories was Douglas.”]

[Footnote 445:  Senate Report No. 15, 33 Cong., 1 Sess.]

[Footnote 446:  The northern boundary was extended to the 49th parallel.]

[Footnote 447:  The first twenty sections are written on white paper, in the handwriting of a copyist.  In pencil at the end are the words:  “Douglas reports Bill & read I & to 2 reading special report Print agreed.”  The blue paper in Douglas’s handwriting covers part of these last words.  The sheet has been torn in halves, but pasted together again and attached by sealing wax to the main draft.  The handwriting betrays haste.]