NOTES FOR CHAPTER 22
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A great "six-footed" fellow--Joseph Gillespie, "Recollections of Early Illinois and Her Noted Men," Fergus Historical Series, no. 13, Chicago, 1880, p. 10. Back In September 1823--Edward Coles to Rebecca E. Coles, Sept. 6, 1823, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Back That contracted, withering policy--Republican Advocate, April 13, 1824. Back Without slave labor--Republican Advocate, June 5, 1823. The revenue to the State from the salines is given at $10,000 per year. Back The anti-conventionists argued--Illinois Gazette, July 26, 1823, letter by Morris Birkbeck writing as "Jonathan Freeman." Back if you had the piety--Illinois Intelligencer, March 29, 1823. Back Who can doubt--Illinois Intelligencer, July 5, 1823. The quote from the editor of the Louisville Public Advertiser is from the same article. "Jonathan Freeman's" letter to the Illinois Gazette, June 21, 1823, contains an argument similar to the one ascribed here to an anti-conventionist. Back Of one thing I am certain--Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Collected and edited by Paul Leicester Ford, Federal Edition, New York and London, 1904--5, vol. 12, pp. 158-160. Back he writes to Lafayette--Thomas Jefferson to the Marquis de Lafayette, Dec. 26, 1820, Ibid., pp. 189-191. Back The friends of a convention--Illinois Gazette, Jan. 10, 1824. Back The only question--Illinois Intelligencer, Jan. 30, 1824. Back The conventionist plan--Illinois Intelligencer, Dec. 4, 1822. Back A population consisting of free negroes--Illinois Intelligencer, July 5, 1823. Back Let those who dislike free negroes--Illinois Intelligencer, July 16, 1824. Back And a conventionist writes--Republican Advocate, Aug. 7, 1823. Back Another conventionist writes--Republican Advocate, June 15, 1824. Back let us . . . carry ourselves forward--Republican Advocate, June 19, 1823, article by "Martus." Back "Address to the People"--Illinois Intelligencer, March 8, 1823. Back When the day--Republican Advocate, May 29, 1823. Back One was with the Council of Revision--Republican Advocate, June 5, 1823. Back the legislature met every two years--Republican Advocate, June 22, 1824. Back the conventionists hinted--Republican Advocate, July 13, 1824. Back The organization of county commissioners' courts--Republican Advocate, June 5, 1823. Back The constitution failed to limit--Republican Advocate, June 5, 1823. See the Illinois Intelligencer, June 11, 1824, for an anti-conventionist answer to this complaint. Back In December 1823--Illinois Intelligencer, Dec. 6, 1823. Back The following resolutions--Republican Advocate, Feb. 24, 1824. Back The anti-conventionists had complained bitterly--Republican Advocate, June 5, 1823, article by "Martus." Back We have heard--Republican Advocate, March 9, 1824. Back the chortles in the conventionist press--Republican Advocate, Feb. 24, March 9, March 16, April 6, and May 11, 1824. Back Then what signifies the vaunting promises--Illinois Intelligencer, June 4, 1824, editorial. Back got support from both sides--The Illinois Gazette reports a dinner for Cook hosted by conventionists. See also editorials in the Gazette for July 17, July 31, and Aug. 7, 1824. Back The leadership of the conventionist cause--Frank A. Stevens, "Alexander Pope Field," Illinois State Historical Society Journal, vol. 14 (1911) 7-37; J. F. Snyder, "Forgotten Statesmen of Illinois: Richard M. Young," Illinois State Historical Library Publications, no. 11, 1906, pp. 302-327; Henry Barrett Chamberlin, "Elias Kent Kane," Illinois State Historical Society Transactions, no. 13, 1908, pp. 162-170; Barbara Burr Hubbs, "Elias Kent Kane," in Idols of Egypt, ed. Will Griffith, Carbondale, 1997, pp. 79-92; J. H. Burnham, "U.S. Senator John McLean," Illinois State Historical Library Publications, no. 8, pp. 190-201; John Reynolds, My Own Times, Chicago, 1879; and Jessie McHarry, "John Reynolds," Illinois State Historical Society Journal, vol. 6 (April 1913) 7-57. Back the leaders of the anti-conventionists--Merton L. Dillon, in "Sources of Early Antislavery Thought in Illinois" (Illinois State Historical Society Journal, vol. 50 (1957) 36-50) divides Illinois abolitionists into preachers and rationalists, seeing the anti-convention campaign as a union of the two separate strains. See also Charles H. Rammelkamp, "Thomas Lippincott, a Pioneer of 1818 and His Diary," Illinois State Historical Society Journal, vol. 10 (1917-1918) 237-255. Back
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