[1] Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book IV. 1293-5. [2] Speech on the Bill for the Admission of Nebraska, January 15, 1867: Congressional Globe, 39th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 478. [3] “Non hoc præcipuum amicorum munus est, prosequi defunctum ignavo questu, sed quæ voluerit meminisse, quæ mandaverit exsequi.”--TACITUS, _Annalia_, Lib. II. cap. 71. [4] Senate Reports, 39th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 128. [5] Quæstiones Juris Publici, Lib. I. cap. 3. [6] Quæstiones Juris Publici, Lib. I. cap. 7. [7] Letter to Mr. Hammond, May 29, 1792: Writings, Vol. III. p. 369. [8] Le Droit des Gens, Liv. III. ch. 9, § 168. [9] Law of Nations, pp. 138, 139. [10] Coleridge, The Piccolomini, Act I. Scene 4. [11] Le Droit des Gens, Liv. III. ch. 18, §§ 293-5. [12] Prize Cases: 2 Black, R., 674. [13] Mrs. Alexander’s Cotton: 2 Wallace, R., 419. [14] Ibid. [15] Le Droit des Gens, Liv. III. ch. 15, § 232. [16] Memoirs and Recollections of Count Ségur, (Boston, 1825,) pp. 305-6. [17] Memoirs and Recollections of Count Ségur, (Boston, 1825,) p. 304. [18] Secretary Marcy to General Taylor, Sept. 22, 1846: Executive Documents, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., Senate. No. 1, p. 564. [19] International Law, Ch. XIX. § 17. [20] Vol. XI. p. 169, note. [21] Alison, History of Europe, (Edinburgh, 1843,) Vol. IX. p. 880. [22] Letter to Lieut. Gen. Sir John Hope, Oct. 8, 1813: Dispatches, Vol. XI. pp. 169-170. [23] Sabine, Loyalists of the American Revolution, (Boston, 1864,) Vol. I. p. 112. [24] Debate in the House of Commons, on the Compensation to the American Loyalists, June 6, 1788: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XXVII. col. 610. [25] Ibid., col. 614. [26] Ibid., col. 616. [27] Ibid., col. 617. [28] American State Papers: Claims, p. 198. [29] Ibid. [30] Ibid., p. 199. [31] House Reports, 1830-1, No. 68; 1831-2, No. 88; 1832-3, No. 11. Act, March 2, 1833: Private Laws, p. 546. [32] American State Papers: Claims, p. 446. Act, March 1, 1815: Private Laws, p. 151. [33] American State Papers: Claims, p. 444. Act, February 27, 1815: Private Laws, p. 150. [34] American State Papers: Claims, p. 462. [35] American State Papers: Claims, p. 521. Acts, March 3, 1817: Private Laws, pp. 194, 187. [36] American State Papers: Claims, pp. 521, 522. Annals of Congress, 14th Cong. 2d Sess., coll. 215, 1036. [37] American State Papers: Claims, p. 835. Annals of Congress, 17th Cong. 1st Sess., col. 311. [38] Statutes at Large, Vol. III. p. 263. [39] American State Papers: Claims, p. 590. [40] Ibid. [41] January 14th, Mr. Wilson moved, as an amendment to the pending bill, a substitute providing for the appointment of “commissioners to examine and report all claims for quartermasters’ stores and subsistence supplies furnished the military forces of the United States, during the late civil war, by loyal persons in the States lately in rebellion.”--_Congressional Globe_, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., p. 359.