[108] The Constitution of 1819 bestowed the suffrage upon every white male "inhabitant" twenty-one years of age.
[109] Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 44-45.
[110] The title of the case was Thomas Spraggins, appellant vs. Horace H. Houghton, appellee.
[111] Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 45-46; Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 76.
[112] Illinois State Register, May 15, 1840.
[113] Ibid., June 12, 1840.
[114] Illinois State Register, July 10, 1840; Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, II, p. 180.
[115] Ibid., September 4, 1840.
[116] Ibid., October 2, 1840.
[117] Letter of J.H. Roberts, Esq., of Chicago, to the writer; see also Illinois State Register, October 2, 1840.