[342] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 853.
[343] Ibid., p. 869.
[344] The economic significance of the Illinois Central Railroad appears in a letter of Vice-President McClellan to Douglas in 1856. The management was even then planning to bring sugar from Havana directly to the Chicago market, and to take the wheat and pork of the Northwest to the West Indies via New Orleans.
[345] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 365.
[346] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 366.
[347] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 369-370.
[348] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 370.
[349] Ibid.
[350] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 371. I have italicized one phrase because of its interesting relation to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
[351] Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 373.