[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.] [Footnote 471: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 343-344.] [Footnote 472: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 344.] [Footnote 473: _Ibid._, p. 344.] [Footnote 474: _Ibid._, p. 353.] [Footnote 475: MS. Letter, Douglas to Lanphier, February 13, 1854.] [Footnote 476: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 232.] [Footnote 477: _Ibid._, pp. 279-280.] [Footnote 478: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 391.] [Footnote 479: _Ibid._, pp. 287-288.] [Footnote 480: _Ibid._, p. 296.] [Footnote 481: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 296-297.] [Footnote 482: _Ibid._, p. 297.] [Footnote 483: _Ibid._, p. 298.] [Footnote 484: _Ibid._, p. 298.] [Footnote 485: See remarks of Bell; _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 414-415; and also later, _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 937.] [Footnote 486: See remarks of Atchison, _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 302.] [Footnote 487: _Ibid._, p. 298.] [Footnote 488: _Ibid._, p. 302.] [Footnote 489: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 325.] [Footnote 490: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 332.] [Footnote 491: _Ibid._, p. 332.] [Footnote 492: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 337.] [Footnote 493: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 338.] [Footnote 494: _Ibid._, p. 338.] [Footnote 495: Cutts, Treatise on Constitutional and Party Questions, pp. 122-123.]