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Note from page 733: 1. This anecdote, according to JWW, is one that Whitney "told me once" (Weik, 209). Cf. §298.

Note from page 734: 2. AL received these votes at the Philadelphia convention on June 19, 1856.

Note from page 734: 3. J. O. Cunningham, editor of the Urbana Union in 1856, later became a judge.