[Footnote 135:  Linn, Story of the Mormons, pp. 237-238.]

[Footnote 136:  Ibid., p. 244.]

[Footnote 137:  Times and Seasons, II, p. 414.]

[Footnote 138:  Illinois State Register, August 13, 1841.]

[Footnote 139:  Ibid., September 24, 1841.]

[Footnote 140:  Times and Seasons, III, p. 651.]

[Footnote 141:  Ford, History of Illinois, p. 269.]

[Footnote 142:  Illinois State Register, June 17, 1842.  Douglas replied in a speech of equal tartness.  See Register, July 1, 1842.]

[Footnote 143:  Illinois State Register, June 10, 1842.]

[Footnote 144:  Ford, History of Illinois, pp. 277-278.]

[Footnote 145:  Gregg, History of Hancock County, p. 419.]

[Footnote 146:  Illinois State Register, November 4, 1842.]

[Footnote 147:  Illinois State Register, December 23, 1842.]

[Footnote 148:  Conkling, Recollections of the Bench and Bar, Fergus Historical Series, No. 22.]

[Footnote 149:  Conkling, Recollections of the Bench and Bar, Fergus Historical Series, No. 22]

[Footnote 150:  Arnold, Reminiscences of the Illinois Bar, Fergus Historical Series, No. 22.]

[Footnote 151:  Arnold, Reminiscences of the Illinois Bar.]

[Footnote 152:  Davidson and Stuve, History of Illinois, p. 698.]

[Footnote 153:  Statute of June 25, 1842.]

[Footnote 154:  A sheet called The Gerrymander was published in March 1843, which contained a series of cartoons exhibiting the monstrosities of this apportionment.  The Fifth District is called “the Nondescript.”]

[Footnote 155:  Patterson, Early Society in Southern Illinois, Fergus Historical Series No. 14; Koerner, Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten, pp. 245, 277; Baker, America as the Political Utopia of Young Germany; Peoria Register, June 30, 1838; Ballance, History of Peoria, pp. 201-202.]

[Footnote 156:  Illinois State Register, March 10, 1843.]

[Footnote 157:  Illinois State Register, June 16, 1843.]

[Footnote 158:  Sheahan, Douglas, p. 55; Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 75.]

[Footnote 159:  Globe, 28 Cong. 1 Sess.  App. pp. 598 ff.]

[Footnote 160:  Alton Telegraph, July 20, 1843.]

[Footnote 161:  Sheahan, Douglas, p. 56; Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 75; Alton Telegraph, August 26, 1843.]

[Footnote 162:  According to the returns in the office of the Secretary of State.  The Whig Almanac gives 451 as Douglas’s majority.]

CHAPTER IV

UNDER THE AEGIS OF ANDREW JACKSON