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2. South Port American (Wisconsin), July 10, 1846.
3. Raymond Gazette (Mississippi), July 17, 1846.
4. National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), May 23, 1803.
5. The canal to which Hunter referred was the Alexandria Canal, which crossed the Potomac from the terminus of the C&O Canal at Georgetown and continued along the Virginia side of the river to Alexandria.
6. Amos B. Casselman, “The Virginia Portion of the District of Columbia,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 12 (1909): 116–17.
7. Frederick Merk, “Dissent in the Mexican War,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, vol. 81 (1969): 120–36.
8. National Intelligencer, January 1, 1838; January 14, 1846.
9. Mark David Richards, “The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801–2004,” Washington History 16, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2004): 54–82.
Sam Houston
1. James L. Haley, Sam Houston (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 7–26.
2. John P. Erwin, son-in-law of the secretary of state, was appointed postmaster for Nashville (Sam Houston’s congressional district) over numerous nominees Houston had forwarded to President John Quincy Adams. Houston had some choice words regarding the fitness of the secretary of state’s son-in-law, who took offense and enlisted a well-known duelist, John T. Smith, to deliver the note bearing his challenge. Smith, accompanied by General White, serving as his witness, approached Houston, but Houston refused to accept a note from one who was of lower station, as provided in the code duello. White took issue with Houston’s interpretation of the code duello, thus insulting Houston’s honor and resulting in White’s accepting Houston’s challenge to meet on the field of honor.
3. Alex W. Terrell, “Recollections of General Sam Houston,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 16, no. 2 (October, 1912): 113–36.
4. Haley, Sam Houston, 52–61.
5. M. K. Wisehart, Sam Houston: American Giant (Washington, DC: Luce Publishers, 1962), 56.
6. Niles’ Weekly Register (Washington, DC), August 27, 1831, citing the Nashville Banner with a note stating “The editor of that paper says it is published as a ‘matter of business.’ ”
7. New York Herald, December 7, 1836. The copy of the president’s message obtained by the New York Herald differs, in the section quoted, from the final draft sent to Congress, which appears in the Register of Debates, appendix, 24th Cong., 2nd sess., 1.
8. William Carey Crane, Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1884), 368–69.
9. Congressional Globe, appendix, 31st Cong., 1st sess., 102. Later, Abraham Lincoln, in his acceptance speech for the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for Senate in 1858, declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Though stated without attribution, the words in his printed text were enclosed in quotation marks.
John A. Sutter
1. John A. Sutter Sr., “Reminiscences,” manuscript (Bancroft Library, University of California—Berkeley), 23; Albert L. Hurtado, John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), 58.
2. Report of Thomas O. Larkin (April 12, 1844), New York Herald, June 22, 1844.
3. Hurtado, John Sutter, 158.
4. John A. Sutter Jr., The Sutter Family and the Origins of the Gold Rush Sacramento, ed. Allan R. Ottley (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 17.
5. Hurtado, John Sutter, 239–41.
6. The Alta California (San Francisco), August 1, 1850.
7. Memorial of John A. Sutter to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress Assembled (Washington, DC: Washington Sentinel, 1876).
James Gadsden
1. Richard Kluger, Seizing Destiny: How America Grew From Sea to Shining Sea (New York: Knopf, 2007), 127.
2. Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union: A House Dividing, 1852–1857 (New York: Scribner, 1947), 490.
3. Ibid., 498.
4. Frank Cosentino, Almonte: The Life of Juan Nepomuceno Almonte (Ontario: General Store Publishing, 2000), 91.
Stephen A. Douglas
1. Mississippian