[[return]]3. Speech of John Stephenson on the state of the Union in the House of Representatives, January 30, 1861.
[[return]]4. Bartlett, "Presidential Candidates in 1860," pp. 344-345.
[[return]]5. Speech of Hon. J. C. Breckenridge delivered at Ashland, Kentucky, p. 9.
[[return]]6. Speech of J. C. Breckenridge on Executive Usurpation, July 16, 1861.
[[return]]7. "The Frankfort Commonwealth," August 21, 1861.
[[return]]8. These were some of the most intellectual and aristocratic men of the State. Collins exaggerates, however, when he says that few leading men opposed secession. See Collins, "History of Kentucky," I, 82.
[[return]]9. Speed, "The Union Cause in Kentucky," 36.
[[return]]10. Ibid., 36.
[[return]]11. Ibid., 37.
[[return]]12. Hart, "Slavery and Abolition," 65, 178, 234; Turner, "Rise of the New West," 77.