[70] These lines, with a slight alteration, are from a parody, “On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis,” which appeared anonymously in the _Monthly Anthology_ for March, 1807, but attributed to John Quincy Adams.--DUYCKINCK, _Cyclopædia of American Literature_, Vol. I. p. 395. [71] Notes on Virginia, Query XVIII.: Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 404. [72] Elphinstone _v._ Bedreechund, 1 Knapp’s Privy Council Rep., 320. See, _ante_, p. 51. [73] Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, Vol. V. No. 54. [74] Page 233. [75] June 13, 1862. [76] _Ante_, Vol. VI. pp. 301-305. [77] Works, Vol. V. pp. 56, 57. [78] Works, Vol. V. pp. 348, 349. [79] Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., July 1, 1862, p. 3035. Mr. Hale quotes from memory. The passage in the original, entitled “A Parable against Persecution,” is as follows: “And God said, Have I borne with him these hundred ninety and eight years, and nourished him, and clothed him, notwithstanding his rebellion against me, and couldst not thou, that art thyself a sinner, bear with him one night?”--Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. II. p. 122. [80] Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., July 1, 1862, p. 3038. [81] Ibid., July 14, p. 3314. [82] _Ante_, p. 5. [83] Arlington, the property of General Lee. [84] Hon. Henry Winter Davis, late Representative in Congress from Maryland. [85] Acts of 37th Cong. 1st Sess., Ch. LX. sec. 4: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 319. [86] “Sunt et belli, sicut pacis, jura.”--LIVY, Lib. V. c. 27: quoted by Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Prolegom. § 26. [87] Art. IX. [88] Cicero, Orat. pro Milone, Cap. iv. § 10. [89] Letter to the Secretary of State, August 22, 1815: American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. IV. p. 117. [90] Quoting it in reply to “the authority that has been rung in our ears by the Senator of Massachusetts,” Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, said: “This was the utterance of Mr. Adams, before he was fired with that fanatical zeal, before he had that disease of negrophobia, that for a time dethroned his mighty intellect on that subject.”--Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., July 15, 1862, p. 3349. [91] Congressional Globe, 27th Cong. 2d Sess., April 14, 1842, p. 424. [92] The important passages introduced here will be found in an earlier speech, “Emancipation our Best Weapon,” _ante_, Vol. VI. pp. 21-23. [93] Chap. 107, sec. 31. [94] Chap. 34, sec. 16. [95] Chap. 107, sec. 59. [96] Chap. 34, sec. 11. [97] Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies, § 248, pp. 95, 96. [98] Ibid., § 248 and note. [99] Stansbury’s Report of the Trial of James H. Peck, Appendix, p. 499. [100] System des heutigen Römischen Rechts, Band II. p. 329, § 97. [101] Notes on Virginia, Query XIII.: Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 367. [102] The Fugitive Slave Act. [103] Milton, Of Reformation in England, Book II.: Prose Works, ed. Symmons, Vol. I. p. 29. [104] Senate Journal, July 17, 1862, pp. 872-874. Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 3406.