[Footnote 373: _Globe_, 31 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 312.] [Footnote 374: _Globe_, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 1120.] [Footnote 375: MS. Letter dated December 30, 1851.] [Footnote 376: Mann, Life of Horace Mann, pp. 351, 358, 362.] [Footnote 377: Senator Foote introduced the subject December 2, 1851, by a resolution pronouncing the compromise measures a "definite adjustment and settlement."] [Footnote 378: Rhodes, History of the United States, 1, p. 230.] [Footnote 379: _Globe_, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 68.] [Footnote 380: _Globe_, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 63. About this time he wrote to a friend, "I shall act on the rule of giving the offices to those who fight the battles."] [Footnote 381: Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 354.] [Footnote 382: _Globe_, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 70.] [Footnote 383: _Globe,_32 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 70-71.] [Footnote 384: See speech by Breckinridge of Kentucky in _Globe_, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 299 ff.] [Footnote 385: Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 115.] [Footnote 386: Statement by Richardson of Illinois in reply to J.C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, March 3, 1852. _Globe_, 32 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 302.] [Footnote 387: "What with his Irish Organs, his Democratic reviews and an armful of other strings, each industriously pulled, he makes a formidable show." Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 115.] [Footnote 388: MS. Letter, February 25, 1852.] [Footnote 389: Pike, First Blows of the Civil War, p. 118.] [Footnote 390: Burke-Pierce Correspondence, printed in _American Historical Review_, X, pp. 110 ff. See also Stanwood, History of the Presidency, p. 248, and Rhodes, History of the United States, I, pp. 251-252.] [Footnote 391: Proceedings of Democratic National Convention of 1852.] [Footnote 392: See Rhodes, History of the United States, I, pp. 424-425.] [Footnote 393: To attribute to Douglas, from this time on, as many writers have done, a purpose to pander to the South, is not only to discredit his political foresight, but to misunderstand his position in the Northwest and to ignore his reiterated assertions.] [Footnote 394: Richmond _Enquirer_, quoted in Illinois _Register_, August 3, 1852.] [Footnote 395: Illinois _State Register_, December 23, 1852.] [Footnote 396: Washington _Union_, November 30, 1852. On a joint ballot of the legislature Douglas received 75 out of 95 votes. See Illinois _State Register_, January 5, 1853.] [Footnote 397: Illinois _State Register_, December 23, 1852.] [Footnote 398: Smith, Parties and Slavery, pp. 88-93.] [Footnote 399: MacDonald, Select Documents of the History of the United States, No. 77.] [Footnote 400: _Globe_, 32 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 170.] [Footnote 401: Douglas declined to serve on the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, because he was opposed to the policy of the majority, so he afterward intimated. _Globe_, 32 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 268.] [Footnote 402: _Globe_, 32 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 173.]