FOOTNOTES:
[38] Presumably Judge Read, of Pennsylvania.
[39] MS. in the collection of the late Major W. H. Lambert, Philadelphia.
[40] Cong. Globe, 1860-61, p. 30.
[41] Trumbull's speech on the Crittenden Compromise, which was impromptu and was delivered about midnight, is printed as an appendix to this chapter.
[42] Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
[43] "Old Public Functionary"—a name that Buchanan in one of his messages had given to himself.
[44] Jefferson Davis says, in his Rise and Fall of the Confederate States, that Buchanan told him that "he thought it not impossible that his homeward route would be lighted by burning effigies of himself and that on reaching his home he would find it a heap of ashes."