Notes 1 Jefferson to [Edmund Pendleton], August 13, 1776, Paul L. Ford (cd.), The Works of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1904), Vol. II, pp. 239-40.
2 Donaldson, The Public Domain, p. 21.
3 Louis Pclzer, "Economic Factors in the Acquisition of Louisiana," Mississippi Valley Historical Association Proceedings, Vol. VI (1912), p. 129; Theodore Roosevelt, Winning of the West (New York, 1889-96), Vol. IV, p. 276.
4 I. J. Cox, "American Intervention in West Florida," American Historical Review, Vol. XVII (1912), pp. 290ff.; Julius W. Pratt, Expansionists of 1812 (New York, 1905), pp. 19-38; Louis M. Hacker, "Western Land Hunger and the War of 1812; A Conjecture," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. X, pp. 365-96.
5 See his view in 1792 in Territorial Papers, Vol. IV, pp. 130-1.
6 Morison and Commager, Growth of the American Republic (New York, 1937), Vol. I, p. 308.
7 The Frankfort (Kentucky) Palladium, January 25, 1806.
8 Vols. I, II, and III of American State Papers, Public Lands are devoted almost entirely to this subject. For an excellent brief discussion see Treat, National Land System, Chap. IX.
9 Robbins, "Preemption -- A Frontier Triumph," p. 338.
10 The best treatment of this subject is to be found in C. F. Emerick, The Credit System and the Public Domain (Vanderbilt Southern Historical Society Publication No. 3).
11 Act of March 26, 1804 for disposal of land in Indiana Territory; Statutes at Large, Vol. II, pp. 279-81.
12 American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. I, p. iii.
14 Annals of Congress, 7 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 421.
15 Statutes at Large, Vol. II, Act of May 3, 1807, p. 445. For attempts at enforcement: See Niles' Register, Vol. XV (1819) p. 301, Vol. XXXVIII (1830), p. 99; Official Opinions of the Attorney General of the United States (Washington, 1852), Vol. I, pp. 471, 475; American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. II, pp. 242-51.
16 Sakolski, Great American Land Bubble, pp. 122-3.
18 R. S. Cotterill, "The National Land System in the South, 1803-1812," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVI (1929-30), pp. 504-5.
19 For military bounty grants see Treat, National Land System, Chap. X; and for special grants, Chap. XII.
20 Donaldson, The Public Domain, pp. 225, 238; Ohio Enabling Act of April 30, 1802, Statutes at Large, Vol. II, pp. 173-5.
21 In later years, out of this provision was to rise the issue of states' rights vs. the federal government's right of eminent domain. Lands exempt from taxes for five years were to prove quite an attraction to foreigners.
22 Treat, National Land System, p. 285; G. W. Knight, "History and Management of Land Grants for Fducation in the Northwest Territory," Papers of the American Historical Associ.i tion, Vol I (1885).
23 Statutes at Large, Act of April 25, 1812, Chap. 68.
24 McMaster, History of the People of the United States, Vol. IV, Chap. 33.
25 Thomas P. Abernethy, The Formative Period in Alabama; idem, "Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Southwestern Demorcracy," American Historical Review, Vol. XXXIII (1927), pp. 64-77.
26 Walter B. Stevens, "The Travail of Missouri for Statehood," Missouri Historical Review, Vol. XV (1920), pp. 1-36.
27 Frederick J. Turner, Rise of the New West (New York, 1906), p. 70. By permission of Harper and Brothers Co.
28 Timothy Flint, Recollections of the Last Ten Years (Boston, 1826; Reprint, Knopf, 1932), p. 192.
29 David Thomas, Travels Through the Western Country in the Summer of 1816 (Auburn, New York, 1819), p. 159.
30 Henry B. Fearon, Sketches of America (3rd Ed., London, 1819), p. 215.
31 Samuel R. Brown, The Western Gazeteer (Auburn, N.Y., 1817), p. 111.
33 American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. III, p. 170.
34 For a discussion of this wildcat banking consult Harry J. Carman, Social and Economic History of the United States (Boston, 1930), Vol. I, pp. 530ff.; Turner, Rise of the New West, pp. 300ff.; J. B. McMaster, History of the People of the United States, Vol. IV, pp. 280ff.
35 For the attack upon banks, see: Ernest L. Bogart "Taxation of the Second United States Bank by Ohio," American Historical Review, Vol. XVII (1912), pp. 312ff.
36 Quoted from the Kentucky Reporter in Niles' Register, September 4, 1819, pp. 10-11.
37 Samuel Reznick, "The Depression of 1819-20: A Social History," American Historical Review, Vol. XXXIX (1933), p. 37.
38 Niles' Register, May 8, 1819.
39 American State Papers, Finance, Vol. Ill, p. 718.
40 Signed ["Hampden"], quoted in the Scioto Gazette and Fredonian Chronicle, July 30, 1819.
41 Presented to the Senate in February 1820. Annals of Congress, 16 Cong. 1 Sess., pp. 260 and 478, respectively.
42 Carman, Social and Economic History of the United States, Vol. I, p. 527.
43 Annals of Congress, 16 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 483.
44 Statutes at Large, Vol. Ill, p. 566. The Act of 1804 provided sale for cash at $1.64 per acre, and reduced the minimum amount to 160 acres.