[153] Mr. Schwartz was of Berks County, and had been a Democrat all his life, until he felt constrained on the Lecompton Question to take ground against his old party. [154] “Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emtorem invenerit.”--Sallust, Jugurtha, c. 35. [155] The Fox, Act V. sc. 8. [156] Politics, Book I. ch. 4. [157] Boswell, Life of Johnson, April 6, 1772, ed. Croker (London, 1835,) Vol. III. p. 212. [158] Anecdotes of Painting in England: _Hogarth_, p. 723. [159] Here was the prison of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, after his defeat and surrender at Sedan, September 1, 1870. [160] This was the special thunder of Mr. McDuffie in the debates on the Tariff during the administration of General Jackson. [161] “MR. MANN. … I have seen the number of _actual slaveholders_ variously estimated; but the highest estimate I have ever seen is three hundred thousand.… “MR. GAYLE, of Alabama, interrupted, and said: If the gentleman from Massachusetts has been informed that the number of slaveholders is only three hundred thousand, then I will tell him his information is utterly false. “MR. MANN. Will the gentleman tell me how many there are? “MR. GAYLE. Ten times as many.” _Cong. Globe_, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., App., p. 835, June 30, 1848. [162] Distributed according to the following table:-- Holders of a single slave 68,820 ” ” 1 and under 5 105,683 ” ” 5 ” ” 10 80,765 ” ” 10 ” ” 20 54,595 ” ” 20 ” ” 50 29,733 ” ” 50 ” ” 100 6,196 ” ” 100 ” ” 200 1,479 ” ” 200 ” ” 300 187 ” ” 300 ” ” 500 56 ” ” 500 ” ” 1000 9 ” ” 1000 and over 2 -------- Total 347,525 DE BOW’S _Compendium of the Seventh Census_, p. 95. [163] Erasmus, Adagia, Chil. I. Centur. IV. Prov. 79. [164] Pope, Essay on Criticism, 580, 581. [165] The Earl of Elgin and Sir Charles Grey. [166] “The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”--_Notes on Virginia_, Query XIX.: Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 406. [167] Letter to the Whig County Committee of the County of Essex, November 5, 1838: In Memoriam J. W. B., pp. 9, 10. [168] Hon. Charles Allen. [169] Drayton, Poly-Olbion, Song XIII. Warwickshire, the middle county of England, is the shire referred to. [170] Iliad, tr. Pope, Book I. 528, 529 [406]. [171] Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858: Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, p. 20.