[260] Garrison, Westward Extension, p. 284.
[261] Polk, MS. Diary, Entry for November 13, 1848.
[262] Ibid.
[263] See Douglas's Speech of December 23, 1851.
[264] Polk, MS. Diary, Entry for December 11, 1848.
[265] Globe, 30 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 21.
[266] Hunt, Genesis of California's First Constitution, in Johns Hopkins University Studies, XIII, pp. 16, 30.
[267] Polk, MS. Diary, Entries for December 11, 12, 13, 14, 1848.
[268] Globe, 30 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 46-49.
[269] See the petition of the people of New Mexico, Ibid., p. 33.