[v-42] Works, i, 142-45.
[v-43] During Lincoln’s last term in the Illinois House of Representatives he offered the following resolution:—
“Resolved, that so much of the Governor’s message as relates to fraudulent voting, and other fraudulent practices at elections, be referred to the Committee on Elections, with instructions to said committee to prepare and report to the House a bill for such an act as may, in their judgment, afford the greatest possible protection of the elective franchise against all frauds of all sorts whatsoever.”
This failed of adoption, and in its stead was passed a substitute offered by John A. McClernand, one of the Democratic leaders. (See Illinois House Journals, 1840-41, p. 34; and Works, i, 152-53.)
[v-44] Horace White, in Herndon, i, xxii.
[v-45] Lincoln to Herndon, June 22, 1848, Works, ii, 50. See, also: Herndon, i, 270-72; Lamon, 295.
[v-46] Phillips’s Men Who Knew, 160-62.
[v-47] Whitney, 117.
[v-48] Schurz, ii, 91.