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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  There can be little doubt that he supplied the data for the sketch in Wheeler’s Biographical and Political History of Congress.]

[Footnote 2:  See Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1901, pp. 113-114.]

[Footnote 3:  Vermont Historical Gazetteer, III, p. 457.]

[Footnote 4:  Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1901, p. 115.]

[Footnote 5:  Mr. B.F.  Field in the Vermonter, January, 1897.]

[Footnote 6:  For many facts relating to Douglas’s life, I am indebted to an unpublished autobiographical sketch in the possession of his son, Judge R.M.  Douglas, of Greensboro, North Carolina.]

[Footnote 7:  Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 61; also Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 8:  Troy Whig, July 6, 1860.]

[Footnote 9:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 10:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 11:  Ms. Autobiography; see Wheeler, Biographical History, p. 62.]

[Footnote 12:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 13:  Vermonter, January, 1897.]

[Footnote 14:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 15:  This story was repeated to me by Judge Douglas, on the authority, I believe, of Senator Lapham of New York.]

[Footnote 16:  This is the impression of all who knew him personally, then and afterward.  See Arnold, Reminiscences of the Illinois Bar.]

[Footnote 17:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 18:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 19:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 20:  Kirby, Sketch of Joseph Duncan in Fergus Historical Series No. 29; also Historic Morgan, p. 60.]

[Footnote 21:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 22:  Speech at Jonesboro, in the debate with Lincoln, Sept. 15, 1858.]

[Footnote 23:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 24:  Kirby, Joseph Duncan.]

[Footnote 25:  James S. Anderson in Historic Morgan.]

[Footnote 26:  Peck, Gazetteer of Illinois, 1834.]

[Footnote 27:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 28:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 29:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 30:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 31:  Letter of E.G.  Miner, January, 1877, in Proceedings of the Illinois Association of Sons of Vermont.]

[Footnote 32:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 33:  Ibid.; Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 34:  Ms. Autobiography.]

[Footnote 35:  Hon. J.C.  Conkling in Fergus Historical Series, No. 22.]

CHAPTER II

THE RISE OF THE POLITICIAN