[65] Ib., p. 515.

[66] "History of United States," Rhodes, vol. I.

[67] Channing.

[68] Hart.

[69] Theodore Clarke Smith, "Parties and Slavery," p. 303.

[70] For the humorous side of life in the South in the old day, see "Simon Suggs," J. J. Hooper; "Georgia Scenes," Judge Longstreet; and "Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi," by Baldwin.

[71] "Memoirs of John H. Reagan," p. 261.

[72] Mr. Lincoln took that position in his great speech at Chicago, in 1858, when beginning his campaign for the senatorship.

[73] Lincoln, "Complete Works," vol. IV, p. 9.

[74] "Calhoun's Works," vol. VI, p. 311.