[459] Jefferson Davis to Mrs. Dixon, September 27, 1879, in Dixon, True History of the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, pp. 457 ff.

[460] Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 221.

[461] Transactions of the Nebraska Historical Society, Vol. II, p. 90.

[462] Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 382.

[463] Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 239-240.

[464] Washington Union, January 24, 1854.

[465] Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 282.

[466] Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 281-282.

[467] Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 278-279.

[468] See remarks of Senator Bell of Tennessee, May 24, 1854, in Globe, 33 Cong., 1 Sess., App., pp. 939-940; also see statement of Benjamin in Globe, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1093.