[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.