[55] "Parties and Slavery," Theodore Clarke Smith, professor of history in Williams College, p. 96.
[56] "Rhodes," vol. I, p. 192.
[57] Vol. I, p. 66.
[58] Smith, "Parties and Slavery," pp. 118-20.
[59] The writer's father, who had been a nullifier and a lifelong follower of Calhoun, joined the Know-Nothings in the hope of saving the Union, but withdrew when he found that in the North the party was not true to its Union pledges. Here was a typical case of Southern unwillingness to resort to secession.
[60] Ib., pp. 138-9.
[61] Theodore Clarke Smith, "Parties and Slavery."
[62] Garrison's "Garrison."
[63] "The Negro and the Nation," George Spring Merriam, p. 120.
[64] Sanborn's "Life of John Brown," p. 466.