[Footnote 45: Ford, History of Illinois, pp. 285-286; see contemporary newspapers.]
[Footnote 46: Illinois _Advocate_, May 4, 1835.]
[Footnote 48: Illinois _Advocate_, Dec. 17, 1835; Sangamo _Journal_, Feb. 6, 1836.]
[Footnote 49: Sangamo _Journal_, February 6, 1836.]
[Footnote 50: There was one exception, see Sheahan, Douglas, p. 26.]
[Footnote 51: Sheahan, Douglas, p. 26; Wheeler, Biographical History, p. 67; Sangamo _Journal_, May 7, 1836.]
[Footnote 52: Sangamo _Journal_, May 7, 1836.]
[Footnote 56: Ford, History of Illinois, pp. 103-105.]
[Footnote 57: See letter of "M--" in the Illinois _State Register_, July 29, 1836.]
[Footnote 58: Illinois _State Register_, October 28, 1836.]
[Footnote 59: _Ibid._, December 8, 1836.]
[Footnote 60: Sheahan, Douglas, p. 29; MS. Autobiography.]
[Footnote 62: In his Autobiography Douglas says that the friends of the bill persuaded his constituents to instruct him to vote for the bill; hence his affirmative vote was the vote of his constituents.]
[Footnote 63: Douglas was in good company at all events. Abraham Lincoln was one of those who voted for the bill.]
[Footnote 64: See Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, Chapter 40; Wheeler, Biographical History, pp. 68-70; Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 32-33.]
[Footnote 65: But it was no worse than the English custom before the Act of 1857.]
[Footnote 67: The assembly substituted the word "inexpedient" for "unconstitutional," in the resolution submitted by Douglas. House Journal, p. 62.]
[Footnote 68: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, I, pp. 137-138.]
[Footnote 70: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1901, p. 111.]
[Footnote 71: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1901, pp. 111-112. The Sangamo _Journal_, August 5, 1837, says that Douglas owed his appointment to the efforts of Senator Young in his behalf.]
[Footnote 72: Sangamo _Journal_, August 29, 1837.]
[Footnote 73: Douglas describes his duties in Cutts, Const. and Party Questions, pp. 160 ff.]
[Footnote 74: Conversation with Charles A. Keyes, Esq., of Springfield, and with Dr. A.W. French, also of Springfield, Illinois.]
[Footnote 75: Sangamo _Journal_, July 1, 1837. The newspaper accounts of this affair are confusing; but they are in substantial agreement as to the causes and outcome of the attack upon the office of the _Republican_.]