[190] The case of the Hornet, as stated by Mr. Carpenter, was as follows:--“The Hornet was purchased in this country by Cubans, was taken into the open sea outside of the United States, and there armed and manned to cruise against Spain, and started on her way toward the waters of Cuba with arms and supplies for the revolutionists. Owing to the poor quality of her coal, she was unable to pursue her voyage, and put into a port of the United States, when she was libelled by the United States, upon the ground that she was intended for the ‘service of the people of a certain colony of the kingdom of Spain, to wit, the island of Cuba,’ etc. All of which is charged to be against the third section of the Neutrality Law.”--_Congressional Globe_, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., p. 144. [191] Act of April 10, 1869, Sec. 7: Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI. p. 41. [192] Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. p. 428. [193] “’Tis out of time to set it forth in the Declaration; but it should have come in the Replication. ’Tis like leaping (as Hale, Chief-Justice, said) before one come to the stile.”--_Sir Ralph Bovy’s Case_: 1 Ventris, R., 217. [194] Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States, March 2, 1867, Preamble and Section 6: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. pp. 428, 429. [195] Letter to Adjutant-General Townsend, July 10, 1869: Papers relating to the Test Oath: House Miscellaneous Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., No. 8, p. 28. See also Letters of June 16 and 26, 1869, to R. T. Daniel and B. W. Gillis, respectively: Ibid., pp. 24, 15. [196] Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. pp. 14-16. [197] Section 6. [198] Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. pp. 502-3. [199] Ibid., Vol. XV. p. 344. [200] Act of July 19, 1867, Sec. 11: Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. p. 16. [201] For some previous remarks relative to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, see article entitled “Personal Record on Reconstruction with Colored Suffrage,” _post_, pp. 304-7. [202] See, _ante_, pp. 184-5. [203] “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.”--General Bosquet to Mr. Layard: Kinglake, Invasion of the Crimea, (Edinburgh, 1868) Vol. IV. p. 369, note. [204] Annual Message, December 1, 1862. [205] Report of Special Commissioner of Revenue, December, 1869: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 27, p. XIII. [206] Statistics of the United States in 1860, Eighth Census, Miscellaneous, pp. 294, 295. [207] Report of Special Commissioner of Revenue, December, 1869: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 27, p. VI. [208] Ibid. [209] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 2, pp. XIII-XVIII. [210] Statement of the Public Debt, January 1, 1870.--Purchases of bonds in excess of the sum required for the sinking fund first appear in the Statement of August 1, 1869, and as then amounting, with the accrued interest, to $15,110,590; thence to January 1, 1870, the monthly average, including interest, was a little short of $10,000,000.