[199] See the letter of a New England Correspondent in the Peoria Register, May, 1839.
[200] Peoria Register, June 8, 1839.
[201] Globe,28 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 198 and 201.
[202] Greenhow, Northwest Coast of North America, p. 200.
[203] Globe, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 41.
[204] Ibid., p. 173.
[205] Globe, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 63.
[206] Globe, 28 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 225-226.
[207] His capacity for leadership was already recognized. His colleagues conceded that he was "a man of large faculties." See Hilliard, Politics and Pen Pictures, p. 129.
[208] Globe, 29 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 25.