[645] Correspondent to Cleveland Plaindealer, quoted in Chicago Times, January 29, 1858.

[646] Mrs. Jefferson Davis to Mrs. Pierce, MS. Letter, April 4, 1858.

[647] Mrs. Roger Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War, pp. 69-70.

[648] Ibid., Chapter 4.

[649] Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 289.

[650] Message of February 2, 1858.

[651] Senate Report No. 82, 35 Cong., 1 Sess., February 18, 1858.

[652] Minority Report, p. 52.

[653] Minority Report, p. 64.

[654] Globe, 35 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 502.