[Footnote 510: _Ibid._, p. 269.] [Footnote 511: Cutts, Constitutional and Party Questions, pp. 98-99.] [Footnote 512: Davidson and Stuve, History of Illinois, pp. 641-643.] [Footnote 513: See items scattered through the Illinois _State Register_ for these exciting weeks.] [Footnote 514: See Illinois State _Register_, October 6, 1854, and subsequent issues.] [Footnote 515: Nearly every biographer of Lincoln has noted this apparent breach of agreement on the part of Douglas, but none has questioned the accuracy of the story, though the unimaginative Lamon betrays some misgivings, as he records Lincoln's course after the "Peoria truce." See Lamon, Lincoln, p. 358. The statement of Irwin (in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 329) does not seem credible, in the light of all the attendant circumstances.] [Footnote 516: _Whig Almanac_ 1855.] [Footnote 517: MS. Letter, Douglas to Lanphier, December 18, 1854.] [Footnote 518: MS. Letter, Douglas to Lanphier, December 18, 1854.] [Footnote 519: Davidson and Stuve, History of Illinois, pp. 689-690; Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 275-276.] [Footnote 520: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 67.] [Footnote 521: _Globe_, 33 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 216.] [Footnote 522: Globe, 33 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 330.] [Footnote 523: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, pp. 97-98, 130, 196.] [Footnote 524: _Globe_, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 655.] [Footnote 525: _Ibid._, App., p. 391.] [Footnote 526: _Globe,_34 Cong., 1 Sess., App. p. 392.] [Footnote 527: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, pp. 169-171.] [Footnote 528: Stanwood, History of the Presidency, p. 265. Douglas received 73 votes from the slave States and Buchanan 47; Buchanan received 28 votes in New England, Douglas 13; Buchanan received 41 votes from the Northwest, Douglas 19. The loss of Buchanan in the South was more than made good by his votes from the Middle Atlantic States.] [Footnote 529: Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 448-449; Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention, 1856.] [Footnote 530: Washington _Union_, June 7, 1856.] [Footnote 531: Stanwood, History of the Presidency, p. 267.] [Footnote 532: Washington _Union_, June 7, 1856.] [Footnote 533: Correspondent to Cincinnati _Enquirer_, June 12, 1856.]