[308] Shaw, Local Government in Illinois, in the Johns Hopkins University Studies, Vol. I; Newell, Township Government in Illinois.
[309] Harris, Negro Servitude in Illinois, Chapter II.
[310] Ibid., Chapter III. See Article VI of the Constitution.
[311] Ibid., Chapter IV. See also Moses, History of Illinois, Vol. I, p. 324.
[312] Harris, Negro Servitude, pp. 125, 136-357
[313] Journal of the Constitutional Convention of 1847, pp. 453-456.
[314] Whig Almanac, 1841.
[315] Ibid., 1845.
[316] Smith, Liberty and Free Soil Parties, pp. 326-327.
[317] Smith, Liberty and Free Soil Parties, pp. 328-329.