1 28 Cong. 1 Sess., House Journal, p. 165; Congressional Globe, 28 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 106.
2 ibid., 29 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 473.
5 29 Cong. 1 Sess., H. Jour., p. 599; Cong. Globe, 29 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 526.
7 New York Weekly Tribune, June 12, 1847.
14 George M. Stephenson, The Political History of the Public Lands, from 1840 to 1862 (Boston, 1917), p. 136.
15 Quoted in Constance M. Rourke, Trumpets of Jubilee (New York, 1927), p. 298.
16 Stephenson, loc. cit., p. 138.
17 In 1845 it was estimated that there were two thousand newspapers published in the United States, and that six hundred of these supported Land Reform in 1850. See Selig Perlman, A History of Trade Unionism in the United States (New York, 1922), p. 38. In one year, 1852-53, the circulation of the New York. Daily Tribune increased from 17,640 to 26,880; the Semi-Weekly Tribune, from 3,120 to 11,400; and the Weekly Tribune, which circulated mostly in the Mid-West, from 51,000 to 103,680. By 1854 Greeley's Tribune wielded more influence in America than any other newspaper. See Willard G. Bleyer, Main Currents in the History of American Journalism (New York, ro27), p. 228. Bayard Taylor wrote that it came next to the Bible throughout the West. See James Ford Rhodes, Lectures on the Civil War (New York, 1913) p. 30. The Tribune grew in circulation and influence until in 1860 the Weekly Tribune reached the almost incredible figure of 217,000.
18 New York Daily Tribune, March 9, 1849.
25 Horace Greeley, Hints Toward Reforms (New York, 1853), pp. 315, 317, 318.
26 Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 263.
27 Arthur C. Cole, The Era of the Civil War, 1848-1870 (Springfield, Ill., 1919), p. 91.
28 Cong. Globe, 32 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, p. 731.
29 Cited in Cole, Irrepressible Conflict, p. 137.
30 Andrew Johnson was the leading advocate of the principle in Congress. His first bill was introduced in 1846. See supra, p. 105. For Douglas' bill, see Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 87. For Houston's bill, see ibid., p. 262.
31 See his speech of March 30, 1852, in the Cong. Globe, 32 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, pp. 426-7. Grow's speeches contain many expressions that are the replica of those of the Land Reformers. Inasmuch as he was a close observer of the columns of the Tribune, having taken that newspaper since its first issue, one may conclude that Greeley, as well as Benton, had considerable influence upon Grow. See James T. Du Bois and Gertrude S. Mathews, Galusha A. Grow, Father of the Homestead Law (New York, 1917), p. 288. Professor Commons declared that Grow's speeches were "merely an oratorical transcript" from the Working Man's Advocate; see John R. Commons, "Horace Greeley and the Working Class Origins of the Republican Party," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. XXIV (September 1909), p. 484.
32 New York Weekly Tribune, March 20, 1852.
34 Perlman, History of Trade-Unionism, p. 38.
36 Quoted in ibid., June 12, 1852.
38 Stephenson, Political History of the Public Lands, 1840-1862, p. 146.
39 New York Weekly Tribune, June 12, 1852.
40 Vol. VI (July 1848), p. 98. See also "Freedom of the Public Lands," Emancipator, Vol. XIII (July 19, 1848), p. 2; and in the same issue, "Hale and Land Reform," p. 1.
41 Cong. Globe, 30 Cong. 2 Sess., pp. 13, 605.
42 Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life (New York, 1869), p. 217.
43 The Whig Almanac (New York, 1850), pp. 37-8.
44 Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 87.
47 ibid., p. 616; 31 Cong, i Sess., Senate Journal, p. 197.
48 Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 233.
50 Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 408.
55 ibid., 31 Cong. 2 Sess., pp. 312-13.
57 New York Weekly Tribune, January 24, 1852.
58 Cong. Globe, Appendix, 32 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 381.
64 ibid.. Appendix, pp. 481-2.
65 Berland of Arkansas said that two members of the Committee, a minority of which he was one, were in favor of the bill, ibid., 32 Cong. 1 Sess., pp. 1,352, 2,100.