[Footnote 47: Anstell, Bethlehem, May 21, Greenough Collection.] [Footnote 48: Anderson, Tenn., Apr. 8, ibid.] [Footnote 49: Goode, Hunter Corr., Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1916, vol. II.), p. 111.] [Footnote 50: Ames, Calhoun, pp. 24-27.] [Footnote 51: Hearon, pp. 120-123; Anonymous, Letter on Southern Wrongs. .. in Reply to Grayson (Charleston, 1850).] [Footnote 52: Letters, II. 111, 121, 127.] [Footnote 53: Winthrop MSS., Jan. 16, Feb. 7.] [Footnote 54: Philadelphia Bulletin, in McMaster, VIII. 15.] [Footnote 55: Winthrop MSS., Feb. 10, 6.] [Footnote 56: Writings and Speeches, XVI. 533; XVIII. 355.] [Footnote 57: Stephens, War between the States, II. 201-205, 232; Cong. Globe, XXI. I. 375-384.] [Footnote 58: Thurlow Weed, Life, II. 177-178, 180-181 (Gen. Pleasanton's confirmatory letter). Wilson, Slave Power, II. 249. Both corroborated by Hamline letter Rhodes, I. 134. Stephens's letters, N. Y. Herald, July 13, Aug, 8, 1876, denying threatening language used by Taylor "in my presence," do not nullify evidence of Taylor's attitude. Mann, Life, p. 292. Private Washington letter, Feb. 23, reporting interview, N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 25.] [Footnote 59: Weekly Tribune, Mar. 2, reprinted from Daily, Feb. 27. Cf. Washington National Intelligencer, Feb. 21, quoting: Richmond Enquirer; Wilmington Commercial; Columbia Telegraph.] [Footnote 60: New York Herald, Feb. 25; Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. 26.] [Footnote 61: Tribune, Feb. 25.] [Footnote 62: Writings and Speeches, XVI. 534.] [Footnote 63: Lodge's reproduction of Parton, pp. 16-17, 98, 195, 325-326, 349, 353, 356, 360. Other errors in Lodge's Webster, pp. 45, 314, 322, 328, 329-330, 352.] [Footnote 64: Writings and Speeches, XVIII. 356, 387; XVI. 542, W; X. 116; Curtis, Life II. 596; XIII. 434.] [Footnote 65: Mar. 19, Cong. Globe, XXII. II. 1063.] [Footnote 66: Aug. 12, ibid., p. 1562.] [Footnote 67: U. S. Bonds (1867). About 112-113, Dec., Jan., Feb., 1850; "inactive" before Webster's speech; "firmer," Mar. 8; advanced to 117, 119, May; 116-117 after Compromise.] [Footnote 68: E. P. Wheeler, Sixty Years of American Life, p. 6; cf. Webster's Buffalo Speech, Curtis, Life, II. 576; Weed, Autobiography, p. 596.] [Footnote 69: Winthrop MSS.] [Footnote 691: Writings and Speeches, XVI. 534-5.] [Footnote 70: Webster to Harvey, Apr. 7, MS. Middletown (Conn.) Hist. Soc., adds Fletcher's name. Received through the kindness of Professor George M. Dutcher.] [Footnote 71: Writings and Speeches, X. 57; "Notes for the Speech," 281-291; Winthrop MSS., Apr. 3.] [Footnote 72: Writings and Speeches, XVIII. 371-372.] [Footnote 73: Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, I. 269-271.] [Footnote 74: Works, II. 202-203.] [Footnote 75: Writings and Speeches, XVI. 580-581.] [Footnote 76: Seward, Works, III. 111-116.] [Footnote 77: Writings and Speeches, X. 57, 97.] [Footnote 78: Ibid., XIII. 595; X. 65.]