Charles Duran - Or, The Career of a Bad Boy - By the author of "The Waldos",",31/15507.txt,841
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[Footnote 104: Illinois _State Register_, November 23, 1839.] [Footnote 105: _Ibid._, February 21, 1840.] [Footnote 106: _Ibid._, April 24, 1840.] [Footnote 107: See Illinois _State Register_, August 7, 1840.] [Footnote 108: The Constitution of 1819 bestowed the suffrage upon every white male "inhabitant" twenty-one years of age.] [Footnote 109: Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 44-45.] [Footnote 110: The title of the case was Thomas Spraggins, appellant _vs._ Horace H. Houghton, appellee.] [Footnote 111: Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 45-46; Wheeler, Biographical History of Congress, p. 76.] [Footnote 112: Illinois _State Register_, May 15, 1840.] [Footnote 113: _Ibid._, June 12, 1840.] [Footnote 114: Illinois _State Register_, July 10, 1840; Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, II, p. 180.] [Footnote 115: _Ibid._, September 4, 1840.] [Footnote 116: _Ibid._, October 2, 1840.] |
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