[Footnote 90: Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 36-37; Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1902, pp. 109 ff; Peoria _Register_, May 19, 1838.] [Footnote 91: Palmer, Personal Recollections, p. 24.] [Footnote 92: Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, II, p. 180.] [Footnote 93: Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society, 1902, p. 110.] [Footnote 94: Sangamo _Journal_, August 25, 1838; Peoria _Register_, August 11, 1838.] [Footnote 95: Election returns in the Office of the Secretary of State.] [Footnote 96: See Sheahan, Douglas, p. 37; also Illinois _State Register_, October 12, 1838.] [Footnote 97: MS. Letter, Benton to Douglas, October 27, 1838.] [Footnote 98: For correspondence between Douglas and Stuart, see Illinois _State Register_, April 5, 1839.] [Footnote 99: Illinois _State Register_, October 26, 1838.] [Footnote 100: _Ibid._, April 5, 1839.] [Footnote 101: Illinois _State Register_, November 23, 1839.] [Footnote 102: _Ibid._] [Footnote 103: Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, I, p. 181.] [Footnote 104: Illinois _State Register_, November 23, 1839.] [Footnote 105: _Ibid._, February 21, 1840.] [Footnote 106: _Ibid._, April 24, 1840.] [Footnote 107: See Illinois _State Register_, August 7, 1840.] [Footnote 108: The Constitution of 1819 bestowed the suffrage upon every white male "inhabitant" twenty-one years of age.] [Footnote 109: Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 44-45.] [Footnote 110: The title of the case was Thomas Spraggins, appellant _vs._ Horace H. Houghton, appellee.] [Footnote 111: Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 45-46; Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 76.] [Footnote 112: Illinois _State Register_, May 15, 1840.] [Footnote 113: _Ibid._, June 12, 1840.] [Footnote 114: Illinois _State Register_, July 10, 1840; Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, II, p. 180.] [Footnote 115: _Ibid._, September 4, 1840.] [Footnote 116: _Ibid._, October 2, 1840.] [Footnote 117: Letter of J.H. Roberts, Esq., of Chicago, to the writer; see also Illinois _State Register_, October 2, 1840.] CHAPTER III LAW AND POLITICS