1 (return)
[ Cf. Parton with Lodge on intellect, morals, indolence, drinking, 7th of March speech, Webster's favorite things in England; references, note 63, below.]

2 (return)
[ In the preparation of this article, manuscripts have been used from the following collections: the Greenough, Hammond, and Clayton (Library of Congress); Winthrop and Appleton (Mass. Hist. Soc.); Garrison (Boston Public Library); N.H. Hist. Soc.; Dartmouth College; Middletown (Conn.) Hist. Soc.; Mrs. Alfred E. Wyman.]

3 (return)
[ Bennett, Dec. 1, 1848, to Partridge, Norwich University. MS. Dartmouth.]

4 (return)
[ Houston, Nullification in South Carolina, p. 141. Further evidence of Webster's thesis that abolitionists had developed Southern reaction in Phillips, South in the Building of the Nation, IV, 401-403; and unpublished letters approving Webster's speech.]

5 (return)
[ Calhoun, Corr., Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1899, vol 11.), pp. 1193-1194.]

6 (return)
[ To Crittenden, Dec. 20, 1849, Smith, polit. Hist. Slavery, I. 122; Winthrop MSS., Jan. 6, 1850.]

7 (return)
[ Calhoun, Corr., p. 781; cf. 764-766, 778, 780, 783-784.]

8 (return)
[ Cong. Globe, XXI. 451-455, 463; Corr., p. 784. On Calhoun's attitude, Ames, Calhoun, pp. 6-7; Stephenson, in Yale Review, 1919, p. 216; Newbury in South Atlantic Quarterly, XI. 259; Hamer, Secession Movement in South Carolina, 1847-1852, pp. 49-54.]

9 (return)
[ Calhoun, Corr., Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1899, vol. II), pp. 1210-1212; Toombs, Corr., (id., 1911, vol. II), pp. 188, 217; Coleman, Crittenden, I. 363; Hamer, pp. 55-56, 46-48, 54, 82-83; Ames, Calhoun, pp. 21-22, 29; Claiborne, Quitman, H. 36-39.]

10 (return)
[ Hearon, Miss. and the Compromise of 1850, p. 209.]

11 (return)
[ A letter to Webster, Oct. 22, 1851, Greenough MSS., shows the strength of Calhoun's secession ideas. Hamer, p. 125, quotes part.]

12 (return)
[ Hamer, p. 142; Hearon, p. 220.]

13 (return)
[ Mar. 6, 1850. Laws (Miss.), pp. 521-526.]

14 (return)
[ Claiborne, Quitman, IL 37; Hearon, p. 161 n.]

15 (return)
[ Hearon, pp. 180-181; Claiborne, Quitman, II. 51-52.]

16 (return)
[ Nov. 10, 1850, Hearon, pp. 178-180; 1851, pp. 209-212.]

17 (return)
[ Dec. 10, Southern Rights Assoc. Hearon, pp. 183-187.]

18 (return)
[ Claiborne, Quitman, II. 52.]

19 (return)
[ July 1, 1849. Corr., p. 170 (Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report, 1911, vol. II.).]

20 (return)
[ Johnston, Stephens, pp. 238-239, 244; Smith, Political History of Slavery, 1. 121.]

21 (return)
[ Laws (Ga.), 1850, pp. 122, 405-410.]

22 (return)
[ Johnston, Stephens, p. 247.]

23 (return)
[ Corr., pp. 184,193-195, 206-208, July 21. Newspapers, see Brooks, in Miss. Valley Hist. Review, IX. 289.]

24 (return)
[ Phillips, Georgia and State Rights, pp. 163-166.]

25 (return)
[ Ames, Documents, pp. 271-272; Hearon, p. 190.]

26 (return)
[ 1854, Amer. Hist. Review, VIII. 92-97; 1857, Johnston, Stephens, pp. 321-322; infra, pp. 267, 268.]

27 (return)
[ Hammond MSS., Jan. 27, Feb. 8; Virginia Resolves, Feb. 12; Ambler, Sectionalism in Virginia, p. 246; N. Y. Tribune, June 14; M. R. H. Garnett, Union Past and Future, published between Jan. 24 and Mar. 7. Alabama: Hodgson, Cradle of the Confederacy, p. 281; Dubose, Yancey, pp. 247-249, 481; Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, p. 13; Cobb, Corr., pp. 193-195, 207. President Tyler of the College of William and Mary kindly furnished evidence of Garnett's authorship; see J. M. Garnett, in Southern Literary Messenger, I. 255.]

28 (return)
[ Resolutions, Feb. 12, 1850; Acts, 1850, pp. 223-224; 1851, p. 201.]

29 (return)
[ Stephens, Corr., p. 192; Globe, XXII. II. 1208.]

30 (return)
[ Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. 23.]

31 (return)
[ South Carolina, Acts, 1849, p, 240, and the following Laws or Acts, all 1850: Georgia, pp. 418, 405-410, 122; Texas, pp. 93-94, 171; Tennessee, p. 572 (Globe, XXI. I. 417. Cole, Whig Party in the South, p. 161); Mississippi, pp. 526-528; Virginia, p. 233; Alabama, Weekly Tribune, Feb. 23, Daily, Feb. 25.]

32 (return)
[ White, Miss. Valley Hist. Assoc., III. 283.]

33 (return)
[ Senate Miscellaneous, 1849-1850, no. 24.]

34 (return)
[ Hamer, p. 40; cf. Cole, Whig Party in the South, p. 162; Cong. Globe, Mar. 5.]

35 (return)
[ Coleman, Crittenden, I. 333, 350.]

36 (return)
[ Clayton MSS., Apr. 6; cf. Coleman, Crittenden, I. 369.]

37 (return)
[ Smith, History of Slavery, 1. 121; Clay, Oct., 1851, letter, in Curtis, Webster, II, 584-585.]

38 (return)
[ Clingman, and Wilmington Resolutions, Globe, XXI. I. 200-205, 311; National Intelligencer, Feb. 25; Cobb, Corr., pp. 217-218; Boyd, "North Carolina on the Eve of Secession," in Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1910), pp. 167-177.]

39 (return)
[ Hearndon, Nashville Convention, p. 283.]

40 (return)
[ Johnston, Stephens, p. 247; Corr., pp. 186, 193, 194, 206-207; Hammond MSS., Jan. 27, Feb. 8.]

41 (return)
[ Ames, Calhoun, p. 26.]

42 (return)
[ Webster, Writings and Speeches, X. 161-162.]

43 (return)
[ Cyclopedia Miss. Hist., art. "Sharkey."]

44 (return)
[ Hearon, pp. 124, 171-174. Davis to Clayton (Clayton MSS.), Nov. 22, 1851.]

45 (return)
[ Globe, XXI. I. 418, 124, 712; infra, p. 268.]

46 (return)
[ MSS., Mar. 10. AM. HIST. REV., voL. xxvii.—18.]

47 (return)
[ Anstell, Bethlehem, May 21, Greenough Collection.]

48 (return)
[ Anderson, Tenn., Apr. 8, ibid.]

49 (return)
[ Goode, Hunter Corr., Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report (1916, vol. II.), p. 111.]

50 (return)
[ Ames, Calhoun, pp. 24-27.]

51 (return)
[ Hearon, pp. 120-123; Anonymous, Letter on Southern Wrongs. .. in Reply to Grayson (Charleston, 1850).]

52 (return)
[ Letters, II. 111, 121, 127.]

53 (return)
[ Winthrop MSS., Jan. 16, Feb. 7.]

54 (return)
[ Philadelphia Bulletin, in McMaster, VIII. 15.]

55 (return)
[ Winthrop MSS., Feb. 10, 6.]

56 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVI. 533; XVIII. 355.]

57 (return)
[ Stephens, War between the States, II. 201-205, 232; Cong. Globe, XXI. I. 375-384.]

58 (return)
[ 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.]

59 (return)
[ Weekly Tribune, Mar. 2, reprinted from Daily, Feb. 27. Cf. Washington National Intelligencer, Feb. 21, quoting: Richmond Enquirer; Wilmington Commercial; Columbia Telegraph.]

60 (return)
[ New York Herald, Feb. 25; Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. 26.]

61 (return)
[ Tribune, Feb. 25.]

62 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVI. 534.]

63 (return)
[ 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.]

64 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVIII. 356, 387; XVI. 542, W; X. 116; Curtis, Life II. 596; XIII. 434.]

65 (return)
[ Mar. 19, Cong. Globe, XXII. II. 1063.]

66 (return)
[ Aug. 12, ibid., p. 1562.]

67 (return)
[ 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.]

68 (return)
[ E. P. Wheeler, Sixty Years of American Life, p. 6; cf. Webster's Buffalo Speech, Curtis, Life, II. 576; Weed, Autobiography, p. 596.]

69 (return)
[ Winthrop MSS.]

691 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVI. 534-5.]

70 (return)
[ Webster to Harvey, Apr. 7, MS. Middletown (Conn.) Hist. Soc., adds Fletcher's name. Received through the kindness of Professor George M. Dutcher.]

71 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, X. 57; "Notes for the Speech," 281-291; Winthrop MSS., Apr. 3.]

72 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVIII. 371-372.]

73 (return)
[ Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, I. 269-271.]

74 (return)
[ Works, II. 202-203.]

75 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVI. 580-581.]

76 (return)
[ Seward, Works, III. 111-116.]

77 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, X. 57, 97.]

78 (return)
[ Ibid., XIII. 595; X. 65.]

781 (return)
[ Garrison childishly printed Eliot's name upside down, and between black lines, Liberator, Sept. 20.]

79 (return)
[ Mar. 10. MS., "Private," to Governor Clifford.]

80 (return)
[ Mar 11, Apr. 13. Webster papers, N.H. Hist. Soc., cited hereafter as "N.H.".]

81 (return)
[ Mar. 11, 25, 22, 17, 26, 28, Greenough Collection, hereafter as "Greenough."]

82 (return)
[ May 20. N.H.]

83 (return)
[ Apr. 19, May 4. N.H.]

84 (return)
[ Apr. 1. Greenough.]

85 (return)
[ Writings and Speeches, XVIII. 357.]

86 (return)
[ Apr. 19. N.H.]

87 (return)
[ June 12. N.H.]

88 (return)
[ Dec. 13. N.H.]

89 (return)
[ Writings and SPeeches, XVI. 582.]

90 (return)
[ Winthrop MSS., Mar. 21 and Apr. 10, 1850, Nov. 1951; Curtis, Life, II. 580; Everett's Memoir; Webster's Works (1851), I. clvii.]

93 (return)
[ Barnard, Albany, Apr. 19. N.H.]

94 (return)
[ Mar. 15, 28. N.H.]

95 (return)
[ June 10. Greenough. ]

96 (return)
[ Mar. 28. Greenough.]

97 (return)
[ H. L Anderson, Tenn., Apr. 8. Greenough. ]

98 (return)
[ Nelson, Va., May 2. N.H.]

99 (return)
[ Mar. 8. Greenough.]

100 (return)
[ Pp. 17-20.]

101 (return)
[ August, 1850; 127 signatures. N.H.]

102 (return)
[ Ogg, Webster, p. 379; Rhodes, I. 157-58.]

103 (return)
[ New York Journal of Commerce, Boston Advertiser, Richmond Whig Mar. 12; Baltimore Sun, Mar. 18; Ames, Calhoun, p. 25; Boston Watchman and Reflector, in Liberator, Apr. 1.]

104 (return)
[ War between the States, II. 211.]

105 (return)
[ War of the Rebellion (1866), pp. 130-131.]

106 (return)
[ Slave Power, II. 246.]

107 (return)
[ Scribner's Magazine XXVI. 84.]

108 (return)
[ Garrison, Westward Expansion, pp. 327-332; Chadwick, The Causes of the Civil War, pp. 49-51; Smith, Parties and Slavery, p. 9; Merriam, Life of Bowles, I. 81.]

109 (return)
[ Rhodes, I. 157, 161.]

110 (return)
[ Preliminary Report, Eighth Census, 1860; Chadwick, Causes of the Civil War, p. 28.]

111 (return)
[ Oct. 2, 1950. Writings and Speeches, XVI. 568-569.]

112 (return)
[ Scribner, XXVI. 84; American Law Review, XXXV. 804.]

113 (return)
[ Nicolay and Hay, IX. 76.]