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notes p . Arnold and Hamilton, one of Milwaukee’s most prominent law firms, represented Garland and published a statement of facts in the Milwaukee papers after the rescue. See Milwaukee Sentinel, March , . Judge Miller’s arrest warrant for Glover repeated this same set of facts. See In re Booth, Wis. , [ Wis. , ] (). The case was decided during the January term of , but a later editor included it in the volume of the Wisconsin Reports with the other Booth cases. The Lexis-Nexis citation for the Booth cases differs from the printed reports. Lexis-Nexis reports the page numbers from an earlier edition, which are preserved in brackets in the printed volumes of the Wisconsin Reports. I record both paginations in this book, beginning with the printed reports and followed by the Lexis-Nexis citation. . The ownership of the shanty is difficult to trace. At the public meeting in Racine, the authorities claimed it was owned by Duncan Sinclair. Milwaukee newspapers later claimed that Glover owned the shanty himself. I have found no other record of it. . The principal source for this narrative, which virtually every historian has used since the event itself, is the article “High Handed Outrage! Attempt to Kidnap a Citizen of Racine by Slave-Catchers,” Racine Advocate, March , . I take the description of citizens’ activities in Racine at face value. For the narrative of the arrest or capture of Glover, I use only what information can be confirmed by other sources. . The city of Racine prosecuted an assault and battery case against Garland, and the facts as presented in “High Handed Outrage!” were supposedly put together by the city attorney, indicating that evidence of the arrest also came from William Alby. See John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, ), . Principal scholarly accounts of Glover’s arrest have drawn rather uncritically from the article in the Racine Advocate, which claimed that there was no service of process on Glover and that Deputy Marshal Kearney immediately (and seemingly without provocation) struck Glover on the head. In subsequent testimony during the Ryecraft trial in November of that year and the Booth trial of January Notes to Pages ‒ p 189 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. , it became clear that Glover had indeed tried to grab the gun pressed to his head and that this had initiated the struggle. . Stanley W. Campbell, The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, – (New York: W. W. Norton, ). . Robert R. Russel, “The Issues in the Congressional Struggle over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, ,” Journal of Southern History (May ): –. . William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the GreatWest (New York: W. W. Norton, ), –. . Frank H. Hodder, “The Railroad Background of the Kansas-Nebraska Act,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review ( June ): –. . One might well ask, then, how it passed. Douglas and the Democrats made it a test of party loyalty, although southern and northern Democrats voted for different reasons. See Roy F. Nichols, “The Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Century of Historiography ,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review (June ): –. . Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (; repr. with new introduction, New York: Oxford University Press, ), –; William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, – (New York: Oxford University Press, ), –. . “Impressions of our State,” Daily Wisconsin, June , . The description was written by a correspondent of the New York Evening Post on the occasion of the opening of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad from Milwaukee to Madison . The correspondent also complained that Milwaukee’s beautiful brick was “miserably caricatured and scandalously libelled [sic] in the material of the Trinity building in New York.” . Statistics taken from Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, An Exposition of the Business of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: A. Baylies, ). Western settlement in the s proceeded both in the quick construction of urban centers and in rural settlement. William Cronon described it as “reading Turner backwards,” suggesting that rapid urban development spurred the commercial development of the rural frontier. See Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis, –. . “High-Handed Outrage!” Racine Advocate, March , . . Diane S. Butler, “The Public Life and Private Affairs of Sherman M. Booth,” Wisconsin Magazine of History (Spring ): –. . Testimony of Charles C. Cotton in U.S. v. Booth, as reported in the Daily Wisconsin, January , . . Vernon L. Volpe, Forlorn Hope of Freedom:The Liberty Party...
