[Footnote 448:  Globe,34 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1374.]

[Footnote 449:  See his speech of March, 1850, quoted above.  In a letter to the editor of State Capital Reporter (Concord, N.H.), February 16, 1854, Douglas intimated as strongly as he then dared—­the bill was still pending,—­that “the sons of New England” in the West would exclude slavery from that region which lay in the same latitude as New York and Pennsylvania, and for much the same reasons that slavery had been abolished! in those States; see also Transactions of Illinois State Historical Society, 1900, pp. 48-49.]

[Footnote 450:  Speech before the Illinois Legislature, October 23, 1849; see Illinois State Register, November 8, 1849.]

[Footnote 451:  The Southern Whigs were ready to support the Dixon Amendment, according to Clingman, Speeches and Writings, p. 335.]

[Footnote 452:  See remarks of Douglas, January 24th, Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 240.]

[Footnote 453:  Letter of Dixon to Foote, September 30, 1858, in Flint, Douglas, pp. 138-141.]

[Footnote 454:  Dixon, True History of the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise.]

[Footnote 455:  Parker, Secret History of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, in the National Quarterly Review, July, 1880.]

[Footnote 456:  Parker, Secret History of the Kansas-Nebraska Act; also Foote, Casket of Reminiscences, p. 93; also Cox, Three Decades of Federal Legislation, p. 49.]

[Footnote 457:  Ibid. Dixon’s account of his interview with Douglas is too melodramatic to be taken literally, but no doubt it reveals Douglas’s agitation.]

[Footnote 458:  This was Greeley’s interpretation, Tribune, June 1, 1861.]

[Footnote 459:  Jefferson Davis to Mrs. Dixon, September 27, 1879, in Dixon, True History of the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, pp. 457 ff.]

[Footnote 460:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 221.]

[Footnote 461:  Transactions of the Nebraska Historical Society, Vol.  II, p. 90.]

[Footnote 462:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 382.]

[Footnote 463:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 239-240.]

[Footnote 464:  Washington Union, January 24, 1854.]

[Footnote 465:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 282.]

[Footnote 466:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 281-282.]

[Footnote 467:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 278-279.]

[Footnote 468:  See remarks of Senator Bell of Tennessee, May 24, 1854, in Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 939-940; also see statement of Benjamin in Globe, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1093.]

[Footnote 469:  Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App. pp. 414-415; p. 943.]

[Footnote 470:  Globe, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1093.  This statement by Senator Benjamin was corroborated by Douglas and by Hunter of Virginia, during the debates, see Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 224.  See also the letter of A.H.  Stephens, May 9, 1860, in Globe, 36 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 315-316.]