[917] Congressional Globe, Thirty-first Congress, First Session, Appendix, pp. 1622, 1623.
[918] Ibid.
[919] Webster's Works, Vol. V, pp. 354, 355, 357, 358, 361.
[920] Von Holst, Constitutional and Political History of the United States, Vol. IV, pp. 18, 19. The hundred and thirty-six Northern members comprised seventy-six Whigs and fifty Democrats.
[921] Congressional Globe, Thirty-first Congress, Second Session, Appendix, p. 324. See also Von Holst's work, Vol. IV, p. 27.
[922] Congressional Globe, Thirty-first Congress, Second Session, pp. 15, 16. Von Holst, Constitutional and Political History of the United States, Vol. IV, p. 15.
[923] McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, p. 53.
[924] "These prosecutions attracted more attention to the slavery question in a few months than the abolitionists had been able to arouse in twenty years." Professor Edward Channing, The United States of America, 1765-1865, p. 241.
[925] F. W. Seward, Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State, 1891, Vol. I, pp. 169, 170. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, pp. 44, 47-51, 58, 59.
[926] Boston Atlas, Dec. 17, 1850.