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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 669:  Hollister, Life of Colfax pp. 119 ff; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, p. 567.]

[Footnote 670:  Hollister, Colfax, p. 121.]

[Footnote 671:  Wilson, p. 567.]

[Footnote 672:  Bancroft, Life of Seward, I, pp. 449-450.]

[Footnote 673:  Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 403.]

[Footnote 674:  Hollister, Colfax, p. 119.]

[Footnote 675:  Ibid., p. 121.]

[Footnote 676:  Wilson, II, p 567; Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life, p. 397.]

[Footnote 677:  Hollister, Colfax, p. 120.]

[Footnote 678:  Herndon-Weik, Life of Lincoln, II, pp. 59 ff.]

[Footnote 679:  Sheahan, Douglas, p. 394.]

[Footnote 680:  Foote, Casket of Reminiscences, p. 135.]

[Footnote 681:  Forney, Anecdotes, II, p. 179.]

[Footnote 682:  Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Edition of 1860), p. 1.]

[Footnote 683:  Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 398-400.]

[Footnote 684:  Sheahan, Douglas, p. 400; Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Life of Lincoln, II, p. 93.]

[Footnote 685:  Debates, p. 9.]

[Footnote 686:  Debates, p. 9.]

[Footnote 687:  Ibid., p. 10.]

[Footnote 688:  Ibid., p. 11.]

[Footnote 689:  Debates, p. 18.]

[Footnote 690:  Debates, p. 20.]

[Footnote 691:  Ibid., p. 24.]

[Footnote 692:  Flint, Douglas, pp. 114-117; Chicago Times, July 18, 1858.]

[Footnote 693:  Debates, p. 24.]

[Footnote 694:  Debates, p. 27.]

[Footnote 695:  Ibid., p. 30.]

[Footnote 696:  Ibid., pp. 33-34.]

[Footnote 697:  Debates, p. 35.]

[Footnote 698:  Ibid., p. 39.]

[Footnote 699:  Sheahan, Douglas, p. 417; Chicago Times, July 21, 1858.]

[Footnote 700:  Debates, p. 44.]

[Footnote 701:  Ibid., p. 60.]

[Footnote 702:  Ibid., p. 61.]

[Footnote 703:  Ibid., p. 63.]

[Footnote 704:  Debates, p. 64.]

[Footnote 705:  Ibid., pp. 64-65.]

[Footnote 706:  Ibid., p. 66.]

[Footnote 707:  Debates, p. 66.]

[Footnote 708:  Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp. 104-105.]

[Footnote 709:  For the following description I have drawn freely from the narratives of eye-witnesses.  I am particularly indebted to the graphic account by Mr. Carl Schurz in McClure’s Magazine, January, 1907.]

[Footnote 710:  Mr. Schurz in McClure’s, January, 1907.]

[Footnote 711:  Debates, p. 67.]

[Footnote 712:  Debates, p. 68.]

[Footnote 713:  Ibid., p. 69.]

[Footnote 714:  Herndon in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp. 76-77; Mr. Carl Schurz in McClure’s, January, 1907.]