[Footnote 190: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 66.] [Footnote 191: _Ibid._, p. 67.] [Footnote 192: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., App., p. 68.] [Footnote 193: _American Historical Review_, VIII, pp. 93-94.] [Footnote 194: It was voted down 107 to 96; _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 192.] [Footnote 195: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 193.] [Footnote 196: Linn's Story of the Mormons, Chs. 10-20, gives in great detail the facts connected with this Mormon emigration. I have borrowed freely from this account for the following episode.] [Footnote 197: Linn, Story of the Mormons, pp. 340-341.] [Footnote 198: Lyman, History of Oregon, III, p. 188.] [Footnote 199: See the letter of a New England Correspondent in the Peoria _Register_, May, 1839.] [Footnote 200: Peoria _Register_, June 8, 1839.] [Footnote 201: _Globe_,28 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 198 and 201.] [Footnote 202: Greenhow, Northwest Coast of North America, p. 200.] [Footnote 203: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 41.] [Footnote 204: _Ibid._, p. 173.] [Footnote 205: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 63.] [Footnote 206: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 225-226.] [Footnote 207: His capacity for leadership was already recognized. His colleagues conceded that he was "a man of large faculties." See Hilliard, Politics and Pen Pictures, p. 129.] [Footnote 208: _Globe_, 29 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 25.] [Footnote 209: _Globe_, 29 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 39.] [Footnote 210: _Ibid._, p. 65.] [Footnote 211: _Ibid._, p. 259.] [Footnote 212: _Ibid._, p. 86.] [Footnote 213: _Globe_, 29 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 260.] [Footnote 214: _Ibid._, pp. 258-259.] [Footnote 215: Illinois _State Register_, Jan. 15, 1846.] [Footnote 216: _Globe_, 29 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 347; Wheeler, History of Congress, pp. 114-115.] [Footnote 217: _Globe_, 29 Cong., 1 Sess. p. 497.] [Footnote 218: _Ibid._, pp. 85, 189, 395, 690-691.] [Footnote 219: Polk, MS. Diary, Entry for June 17, 1846.] [Footnote 220: _Globe_, 29 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1203.] [Footnote 221: He voted for a similar amendment in 1844; see _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 236.] [Footnote 222: _Globe_, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 284.] CHAPTER VI WAR AND POLITICS