Though his tenure of office as United States Senator lasted but one full term of six years, he was given further opportunities for public service. From 1881 to 1885, he served as Register of the Treasury, having been appointed to this office by President Garfield. In 1889, during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison, he was appointed Recorder of Deeds when the office was operated under a system of fees which netted from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars a year. President McKinley called him a second time to the office of Register of the Treasury, in which position he remained until his death in 1898. G. DAVID HOUSTON FOOTNOTES: [1] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, First Session. [2] Simmons, _Men of Mark_, 699-703. [3] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 2100-2105. [4] _Ibid._, pp. 736, 1547, 5138. [5] _Congressional Record_, 1st Session, pp. 1444, 1445. [6] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 2100-2105. [7] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, p. 2104. [8] _Congressional Record_, Forty-sixth Congress, 1st Session, p. 2104. [9] _Ibid._, p. 2105. [10] _Ibid._, p. 2105. [11] _Congressional Record_, Forty-sixth Congress, 2d Session, pp. 2195-2196. [12] _Congressional Record_, Forty-fifth Congress, 1st Session, pp. 201, 245; 3d Session, pp. 1314, 1316, 2309. [13] _Ibid._, Forty-sixth Congress, 1st Session, pp. 45, 71, 435, 1679, 2415; 3d Session, pp. 632, 668. [14] _Congressional Record_, Forty-sixth Congress, 2d Session, pp. 45, 273, 538. [15] _Ibid._, pp. 1619, 1953, 2053, 2384, 4563. [16] See Simmons, _Men of Mark_, pp. 699-703. LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PLAN There was some slavery in the Northwest Territory to which Lincoln moved with his father from Kentucky, for although that section had been dedicated to freedom by the Ordinance of 1787, slavery in a modified form existed there for three reasons. The Ordinance was not considered emancipatory so far as it regarded the British slaves held in such service prior to 1795, those of French masters prior to 1763 and those already in that condition when the Ordinance was passed. Furthermore, after separating from the Indiana Territory, Illinois legalized slavery by indenture, provided for the hiring of slaves from Southern States to supply labor in its various industries, and at the same time passed a stringent law to prohibit the immigration of free Negroes into that State. Later there followed an attempt to open the State to slavery by the Legislature of 1822-1823, but the slave party was defeated by the election of Governor Coles, who would not permit the reactionary element to reduce that commonwealth to a mediaeval basis.[1] Such slavery as existed in Illinois, however, differed widely from that in the South where it had become economic rather than patriarchal as it then existed in certain parts of the North.