[18] As this case was in Executive Session of the Senate, there is no public record of it. From the daily press of the time it appears, that, March 23, 1848, Nugent, a correspondent of the _New York Herald_, was arrested by order of the Senate, and committed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, for obtaining surreptitiously and publishing the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; that he remained in such custody until April 25th, and perhaps longer; that he refused to answer questions concerning the treaty; that he was twice taken before Judge Cranch, of the United States Court, by _Habeas Corpus_; that the Sergeant-at-Arms returned for answer to the writ, that he held the prisoner by virtue of a warrant of the Vice-President, in pursuance of certain proceedings of the Senate in Executive Session, which he could not divulge, and that the question gave rise to much debate in Executive Session. See especially _Baltimore Sun_, March 24, 26, 29, April 18, 1848. [19] Commentaries, Vol. IV. p. 350. [20] 9 Adolphus and Ellis, 1. [21] Lord Mahon, History of England, Chap. XXXI. Vol. IV. p. 20. [22] Privilege of Parliament, Introduction: Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham upon Questions relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests, Vol. IV. p. 353. [23] Sanborn _v._ Carleton, 15 Gray, 399. [24] Rev. Thomas Starr King. [25] “Eadem de Republica sensisse.”--CIC., _Orat. in Pisonem_, c. 32. [26] Mr. Brooks and Senator Butler were both dead. [27] Speech in the Senate, February 6, 1837: Works, Vol. II. p. 632. See Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery, by William Jay, p. 509. [28] Message to the Legislature of South Carolina, November, 1835. [29] Speech in the Senate, March 4, 1858: Congressional Globe, 35th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 961. [30] Speech in the Senate, February 29, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 917. [31] Speech in the Senate, March 6, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 1004. [32] Speech in the Senate, January 31, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, pp. 104-109. [33] Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., pp. 557, 596: January 23, 26, 1860. [34] Message to the Legislature of South Carolina, November, 1835. [35] Statutes at Large of South Carolina, Vol. VII. p. 397, Act No. 670, sec. 1. [36] Civil Code, Art. 35. [37] Laws of Maryland, Acts of 1798, Ch. CI. xii. 12. [38] Stroud, Law relating to Slavery, pp. 22, 23. [39] Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII., 68-71. [40] Exodus, xxi. 16. [41] Colossians, iv. 1. [42] Pollok, Course of Time, Book VIII. 632-634. [43] Clarke, E. D., Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, (London, 1816,) Vol. I. pp. 72, 73. [44] Rokeby, Canto I. st. 21.