[Footnote 82:  Illinois State Register, October 27, 1837.]

[Footnote 83:  Illinois State Register, December 9, 1837; Sangamo Journal, November 25, 1837.]

[Footnote 84:  Sangamo Journal, November 25, 1837; but see also Peoria Register, November 25, 1837.]

[Footnote 85:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 86:  See Illinois State Register, May 11, 1838.]

[Footnote 87:  Illinois State Register, June 8, 1838.]

[Footnote 88:  Sangamo Journal, July 21, 1838.]

[Footnote 89:  Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress I, pp. 72-73; Sheahan, Douglas, p. 36.]

[Footnote 90:  Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 36-37; Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1902, pp. 109 ff; Peoria Register, May 19, 1838.]

[Footnote 91:  Palmer, Personal Recollections, p. 24.]

[Footnote 92:  Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, II, p. 180.]

[Footnote 93:  Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society, 1902, p. 110.]

[Footnote 94:  Sangamo Journal, August 25, 1838; Peoria Register, August 11, 1838.]

[Footnote 95:  Election returns in the Office of the Secretary of State.]

[Footnote 96:  See Sheahan, Douglas, p. 37; also Illinois State Register, October 12, 1838.]

[Footnote 97:  MS. Letter, Benton to Douglas, October 27, 1838.]

[Footnote 98:  For correspondence between Douglas and Stuart, see Illinois State Register, April 5, 1839.]

[Footnote 99:  Illinois State Register, October 26, 1838.]

[Footnote 100:  Ibid., April 5, 1839.]

[Footnote 101:  Illinois State Register, November 23, 1839.]

[Footnote 102:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 103:  Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, I, p. 181.]

[Footnote 104:  Illinois State Register, November 23, 1839.]

[Footnote 105:  Ibid., February 21, 1840.]

[Footnote 106:  Ibid., April 24, 1840.]

[Footnote 107:  See Illinois State Register, August 7, 1840.]

[Footnote 108:  The Constitution of 1819 bestowed the suffrage upon every white male “inhabitant” twenty-one years of age.]

[Footnote 109:  Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 44-45.]

[Footnote 110:  The title of the case was Thomas Spraggins, appellant vs. Horace H. Houghton, appellee.]

[Footnote 111:  Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 45-46; Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 76.]

[Footnote 112:  Illinois State Register, May 15, 1840.]

[Footnote 113:  Ibid., June 12, 1840.]

[Footnote 114:  Illinois State Register, July 10, 1840; Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, II, p. 180.]

[Footnote 115:  Ibid., September 4, 1840.]

[Footnote 116:  Ibid., October 2, 1840.]