Notes 1 Professor Arthur H. Cole, in a study on land sales in the period 1825 to 1845, has shown the close cyclical relationship existing between general commodity prices and receipts of sales from the General Land Office. See Arthur H. Cole, "Cyclical and Sectional Variations in the Sale of Public Lands," Review of Economic Statistics, Vol. IX, p. 45.
2 Reginald McGrane, The Panic of 1837 (Chicago, 1924), p. 44.
3 Navarino (Michigan Terr.) Green-Bay Intelligencer, July i, 1835.
4 George Combe, Notes on the United States of America (Philadelphia, 1841), Vol. I, p. 41.
5 "Speculations" in Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. XXIX (1853), pp. 54-5.
6 Green-Bay Intelligencer, May 10, 1835, quoting Northampton (Massachusetts) Gazette.
7 Cincinnati Mirror and Chronicle, Vol. IV (1835), pp. 259, 267; Columbia Missouri Intelligencer, October 4, 1834.
8 James H. Lanman, "The Progress of the Northwest," Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. HI (1840), p. 40.
9 "Commercial Chronicle and Review," ibid., Vol. XIII (1845), p. 470.
10 De Bow's Commercial Review, Vol. IV (1847), pp. 86-7.
12 Wiliam O'Bryan, Travels in the United States of America (London, 1836), p. 125.
13 J. R. Williams, "Internal Commerce of the West," Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. XIX (1848), pp. 19-23.
14 "Debts and Finances of the States of the Union -- Michigan," ibid.. Vol. XXII (1850), pp. 133-4.
15 A. D. Jones, Illinois and the West (Boston, 1838), pp. 183-91.
16 Green-Bay Intelligencer, March 2, 1836.
17 Joseph Schafer, Four Wisconsin Counties, Prairie and Forest (Madison, Wisconsin, 1927), p. 69.
18 John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (4 vols., Chicago, 1931), Vol. I, p. 72. By permission of S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
19 New Yorker (September 3, 1836), quoting the Coatsvitte Advertiser.
20 Quoted in Green-Bay Wisconsin Democrat, March 31, 1837.
21 A. M. Sakolski, The Great American Land Bubble (New York and London, 1932), pp. 246-8.
22 S. A. Mitchell, Illinois in 1837 (Philadelphia, 1837), p. 135.
23 Mineral Point (Wisconsin Terr.) Miners' Free Press, September i, 1837.
24 "Speculations," Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. XXIX (1853), pp. 54-5.
25 McGrane, Panic of 1837, p. 58; 24 Cong. 2 Sess., Congressional Debates, p. 768; "Debts and Finances of the States of the Union -- Michigan," Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. XXII (1850), p. 34.
26 Carl Russell Fish, The Civil Service and the Patronage (Cambridge, 1920), pp. 136-8.
27 Cong. 2 Sess., Congressional Debates, p. 1,743.
28 ibid., 23 Cong, i Sess., p. 754.
29 McGrane, Panic of 1837, p. 45.
30 24 Cong. 2 Sess., Congressional Debates, p. 764.
31 Land Commissioners' Letters, Preemption Bureau (in General Land Office, Washington, D.C.), Vol. XVIII (1844), p. 39.
32 American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. VIII, p. 612, Doc. 1507.
33 24 Cong. 2 Scss., Congressional Debates, p. 766.
34 24 Cong. 2 Scss., S. Doc. No. 168; 24 Cong. 2 Scss., H. Ex. Doc. No. 151.
35 24 Cong. 2 Sess., Congressional Debates, p. 765; also, Harriet Martineau, Society in America (London, 1837), Vol. II, pp. 91-2.
36 23 Cong. I Scss., Congressional Debates, p. 4,469.
37 American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. VI, p. 384.
38 Achillc Murat, A Moral and Political Sketch of North America (London, 1833), p.6i.
39 23 Cong. I Sess., Congressional Debates, p. 4,480.
40 Edmund Flagg, The Far West (New York, 1838), Vol. I, p. 76.
41 See Benjamin F. Shambaugh, "Frontier Land Clubs or Claims Associations," American Historical Association Report, 1910, Vol. I, pp. 67-85.
42 Frederic L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier (Boston, 1924), p. 388; Hibbard, Public Land Policies of the United States, Chap. XI; Shambaugh, "Frontier Land Clubs or Claims Associations," loc. cit., p. 72.
43 Burlington Wisconsin Territorial Gazette, September 7, 1837; Racine Argus, March 9, 1838; Chicago Wisconsin Territorial Democrat, January 20, 1841; La Crosse Independent Republican, December 20, 1854.
44 New York Daily Tribune, May 18, 1857.
45 Chicago Democrat, May 5, 1841.
46 La Crosse Independent Republican, December 20, 1854.
47 George M. Stephenson, The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 to 1860 (Boston, 1917), p. 21.
48 Racine Argus, March 9, 1838.
49 Chicago Democrat, June 3, 1835.
50 24 Cong. 2 Sess., Congressional Debates, p. 420.
52 ibid., pp. 428, 736, 770-3, 777.
53 Turner, United States, 1830-1850, p. 435; E. G. Bourne, History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837 (New York, 1885).
54 National Intelligencer, July 12, 1836.
55 Richardson, Messages and Papers, Vol. Ill, pp. 104-5; Commager, Documents of American History, Vol. I, Doc. 153.
56 ibid., Vol. I, Doc. 154; Richardson, Messages and Papers, Vol. Ill, p. 249.
57 New Yorker, September 10, December 10, 1836; February 18, April 1, May 6, 1837.
58 Roy M. Robbins, "Horace Greeley: Land Reform and Unemployment, 1837-1862," Agricultural History, Vol. VII (1933), pp. 18-41.