58, and Bonham, "Fifty Years Recollections," 22, while neither gives
Coles a plurality of 46 votes, as Harris in "Negro Servitude in
Ill.," 31, says the official returns show him to have received. For
the purposes of this work the differences are so slight as to be
negligible.

510 "House Journal" (Ill.), 1822-23, pp. 25-7; "Senate Journal" (Ill.),
1822-23, pp. 29-30.

511 "Senate Journal" (Ill.), 1822-23, pp. 43-6; "House Journal" (Ill.),
1822-23, pp. 68, 134, 147-8.

512 "House Journal" (Ill.), 1822-23, pp. 44, 45.

513 Davidson and Stuve, "Hist. of Ill.," 320.

514 "House Journal" (Ill.), 1822-23, p. 272.

_ 515 Ibid._, 1822-23, P. 276; "Senate Journal" (Ill.), 1822-23, p. 252.

516 Washburne, "Sketch of Edward Coles," _passim._

517 "Edwardsville Spectator," Jan. 27, 1824; Nov. 29, 1823.

518 Eames, "Historic Morgan and Classic Jacksonville," 12.

519 "House Journal" (Ill.), 1824-25, p. 64. The corrected official vote
(Aug. 2, 1824), by counties, is as follows:

For. Against.
Alexander, 75, 51
Bond, 63, 240
Clark, 31, 116
Crawford, 134, 262
Edgar, 3, 234
Edwards, 189, 391
Fayette, 125, 121
Franklin, 170, 113
Fulton, 5, 60
Gallatin, 597, 133
Greene, 164, 379
Hamilton, 173, 85
Jackson, 180, 93
Jefferson, 99, 43
Johnson, 74, 74
Lawrence, 158, 261
Madison, 351, 563
Marion, 45, 52
Montgomery, 74, 90
Monroe, 141, 196
Morgan, 42, 432
Pike, 19, 165
Pope, 273, 124
Randolph, 357, 284
Sangamon, 153, 722
St. Clair, 408, 506
Union, 213, 240
Washington, 112, 173
Wayne, 189, 111
White, 355, 326

Totals, 4972, 6640

The vote as here given is from Moses, "Illinois," I., 324. It is
also given in Harris, "Negro Servitude in Illinois," 48. It differs
to a slight degree from that given by William H. Brown in his
"Historical Sketch of the Early Movement in Illinois for the
Legalization of Slavery," read at the annual meeting of the Chicago
Hist. Soc., Dec. 5, 1864 ("Fergus Hist. Ser.," No. 4), and in
Washburne, "Sketch of Edward Coles," 191. Brown was one of the
leaders in the struggle and his work is of especial value. It is
probable that the vote appended to his address was prepared by some