[31] Claiborne's "Interesting Centennial Reminiscences" in Natchez Democrat, Centennial number (1876.)
[32] Ib.
[33] Claiborne's Miss., 144.
[34] Natchez Democrat, Centennial Number (1876.)
[35] Manuscript correspondence of Jefferson in the archives of the State Department, Washington, D. C.
[36] Ibid.
[37] Ibid. This sentence is doubly interesting in the light of the fact that Mr. Jefferson himself had predicted "that it would be a thousand years before the country would be thickly settled as far west as the Mississippi." (See Hart's Formation of the Union, 139.)
[38] Manuscript Correspondence of Jefferson, in the State Department, Washington, D. C.
[39] Ibid. On Dunbar's Memorial to Congress, in behalf of Jefferson College, see Gales and Seaton's Annals of Congress, 8th Cong. 2d. Ses., pp. 685, 1184.
[40] Natchez Democrat, Centennial Number (1876.)