Footnotes 91-103: William Wiecek, "Chapter 11: Radical Constitutional Antislavery:  The Imagined Past, the Remembered Future" in The Source of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, (Cornell University Press: 1977)

<fn91> [*272] Mellen, Argument, 77, 88; Goodell, Views, 91; Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 102; Smith, Constitutional Argument, 20.

<fn92> [*272] Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, Appellants vs. Cinque (New York: S. W. Benedict, 1841), 39; L. Bonnefoux, The Constitution Expounded, respecting Its Bearing on the Subject of Slavery (New York: Wilmer & Rogers, 1930), 6.

<fn93> [*273] Mellen, Argument, 66; see also [Spooner], "Legal Basis," 286.

<fn94> [*273] Tiffany, Treatise, 65; Stewart, "Response to the Message of Govr. Marcy" (1836) in Marsh, ed., Writings of Stewart, 75; Goodell, Views, 89; Mellen, Argument, 71; Smith, Letter to Chase; Daniel Foster, The Constitution of the United States . . . Showing that a Fair Interpretation and Application of Said Constitution Will Abolish Slavery and Establish Liberty (Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles, 1855).

<fn95> [*273] Mellen, Argument, 66; Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 73-81, 237-270; Goodell, Constitutional Duty, 13; Address of the Free Constitutionalists, 14; Smith, Constitutional Argument, 14.

<fn96> [*273] Mellen, Argument, 75; Tiffany, Treatise, 64; Remarks on the Constitution, by a Friend of Humanity, on the Subject of Slavery (Philadelphia: Evening Star, 1836).

<fn97> [*273] Goodell, Views, 28-30; Stewart, "Response to Marcy," in Marsh, ed., Writings of Stewart, 74.

<fn98> [*273] Miller, Constitution & Slavery, 10.

<fn99> [*273] Tiffany, Treatise, 68, 80; Miller, Constitution & Slavery, 12; F[rancis] C. Treadwell to Gerrit Smith, 16 May 1840, Gerrit Smith Collection, Syracuse University.

<fn100> [*274] Mellen, Argument, 83; Spooner, Unconstitutionality, 67-73; Theodore D. Weld, Persons Held to Service, Fugitive Slaves &c. (Boston: J. W. Alden for the New England Anti-Slavery Tract Association, n.d. [1842?]); Goodell, Views, 21-28; "Persons Held to Service," Emancipator and Free American, 30 March 1843; speech of Gerrit Smith to NYSA-SS convention, 1839, reported in Friend of Man, 9 Oct. 1839.

<fn101> [*274] [Spooner], "Legal Basis," 293; Tiffany, Treatise, ch. 18.

<fn102> [*274] William Jay to A. A. Phelps, 3 July 1846, in Lewis Tappan Papers, LC.

<fn103> [*274] Stewart, "Response to Marcy," in Marsh, ed., Writings of Stewart, 65.

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