[196] Speech on the Bill to establish a Territorial Government in Oregon, June 27, 1848: Works, Vol. IV. pp. 511, 512.
[197] Post, pp. 294, seqq.
[198] Less than two fifths. By census of 1790, whole population 748,308; slaves 293,427.
[199] Post, p. 282.
[200] Post, p. 338.
[201] Ante, p. 114.
[202] May 8, 1866: Congressional Globe, 39th Cong. 1st Sess., pp. 2459-60.
[203] Act of March 2, 1867: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. p. 429.
[204] Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 Mars, 1866, Tom. LXII. pp. 245, 246.
[205] McPherson’s Political History of the United States during Reconstruction, pp. 53-55.