[11] House Journal, 1st Session, 38th Congress, pp. 238-9.
[12] For a very able discussion of the “Efforts at Compromise, 1860-61,” see Frederic Bancroft’s article in Political Science Quarterly, vi, pp. 401-423.
[13] Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 37th Congress, p. 129.
[14] Ibid., 2d Session, 37th Congress, part i, p. 8.
[15] Senate Journal, 3d Session, 37th Congress, p. 24.
[16] See Pollard’s Lost Cause Regained, pp. 44-57, for a discussion of the growth of Southern sentiment favoring measures of peace.
[17] It is improbable that he ever modified his views as to the continued existence of the States—views which were essentially those of his successor, though less dogmatically asserted. See Hurd, Theory of Our National Existence, 36 and Index; Pollard, Lost Cause Regained, 65.
[18] Cooper, American Politics, pp. 141-3.
[19] Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 36.
[20] Congressional Globe, 3d Session, 37th Congress, part i, p. 834.