[581] Political Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, pp. 161 ff.
[582] Globe, 35 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 22.
[583] Ibid., App., p. 127. Toombs also stated that the submission clause had been put in his bill in the first place by accident, and that it had been stricken from the bill at his suggestion.
[584] The submission of State constitutions to a popular vote had not then become a general practice.
[585] Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 195.
[586] Globe, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 844.
[587] Globe, 35 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 21.
[588] Sheahan, Douglas, p. 443.
[589] Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, p. 650.
[590] MS. Letter, Douglas to Sheahan, October 6, 1856.