[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 61: Act of February 27, 1837.] [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 Stuve, 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 66: House Journal, p. 62.] [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 69: _Ibid._, p. 139.] [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_.] [Footnote 76: Illinois _State Register_, July 22, 1837.] [Footnote 77: Illinois _State Register_, July 22, 1837.] [Footnote 78: _Ibid._, November 4, 1837.] [Footnote 79: _Ibid._, October 27, 1837.] [Footnote 80: Illinois _State Register_, October 13, 1837.] [Footnote 81: Jacksonville _News_, quoted by Illinois _State Register_, Oct. 13, 1837.] [Footnote 82: Illinois _State Register_, October 27, 1837.] [Footnote 83: Illinois _State Register_, December 9, 1837; Sangamo _Journal_, November 25, 1837.] [Footnote 84: Sangamo _Journal_, November 25, 1837; but see also Peoria _Register_, November 25, 1837.] [Footnote 85: _Ibid._] [Footnote 86: See Illinois _State Register_, May 11, 1838.] [Footnote 87: Illinois _State Register_, June 8, 1838.] [Footnote 88: Sangamo _Journal_, July 21, 1838.] [Footnote 89: Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress I, pp. 72-73; Sheahan, Douglas, p. 36.]