[34:1] Debates in the Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830.
[34:2] [McCrady] Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas, i, p. 43; Calhoun's Works, i, pp. 401-406.
[35:1] Speech in the Senate, March 1, 1825; Register of Debates, i, 721.
[36:1] Plea for the West (Cincinnati, 1835), pp. 11 ff.
[37:1] Colonial travelers agree in remarking on the phlegmatic characteristics of the colonists. It has frequently been asked how such a people could have developed that strained nervous energy now characteristic of them. Compare Sumner, "Alexander Hamilton," p. 98, and Adams, "History of the United States," i, p. 60; ix, pp. 240, 241. The transition appears to become marked at the close of the War of 1812, a period when interest centered upon the development of the West, and the West was noted for restless energy. Grund, "Americans," ii, ch. i.
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The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay[39:1]
In the Significance of the "Frontier in American History," I took for my text the following announcement of the Superintendent of the Census of 1890: