Note 449 — Chapter XI · ToC

See his speech of March, 1850, quoted above. In a letter to the editor of State Capital Reporter (Concord, N.H.), February 16, 1854, Douglas intimated as strongly as he then dared—the bill was still pending,—that "the sons of New England" in the West would exclude slavery from that region which lay in the same latitude as New York and Pennsylvania, and for much the same reasons that slavery had been abolished! in those States; see also Transactions of Illinois State Historical Society, 1900, pp. 48-49.