[19] This dispatch, after remaining unquestioned for more than a month and for several weeks after the date of this speech, was finally contradicted by the French authorities. See Telegram from Minister Washburne to Secretary Fish, March 19, and Note from the French Chargé at Washington, M. de Bellonet, to same, March 30, 1872: Report of Committee on Sale of Ordnance Stores,--Senate Reports, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., No. 183, pp. 524, 604. [20] Speech of February 14th: Congressional Globe, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., pp. 1008, 1013. This important letter may be found in the Report of the Select Committee on the Sales of Ordnance Stores by the United States Government during the Fiscal Year 1871-72: Senate Reports, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., No. 183. [21] _Ante_, p. 12. [22] Joint Resolution, July 20, 1868: Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. p. 259. [23] Executive Documents, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Part 2, pp. 250, 251. [24] De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. III. chs. iii. vi. [25] Senate Reports, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 278, pp. 140, 253. [26] Law of Evidence, Part II. ch. xiii. [27] Ibid., p. 250 (_Rex_ v. _Hardy_, 24 Howell’s State Trials, 808). [28] Ibid. [29] _Ante_, p. 5. [30] D’Ewes, Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, p. 629. [31] Page 146. [32] Gray’s Debates of the House of Commons, Vol. V. p. 145. [33] Ibid., Vol. VI. p. 373. [34] Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Sec. XXVI. [35] Ibid. [36] Ibid. [37] Lex Parl. Amer., pp. 729-30. [38] Ibid., p. 732. [39] Lex Parl. Amer., p. 383. [40] Congressional Globe, 26th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 231. Cushing, Lex Parl. Amer., App. XIV., p. 1009. [41] Entitled, “The Struggles (Social, Financial, and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby,”--DAVID ROSS LOCKE, editor of the Toledo [Ohio] Blade, where most of these Letters, one hundred and eighty-eight in number, first appeared, during the period from March 21, 1861, to May 12, 1870. [42] Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, pp. 15-16. [43] Ibid., p. 17. [44] Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. p. 476. [45] Duties of Massachusetts at the Present Crisis: Formation of the Republican Party. _Ante_, Vol. IV. p. 267. [46] For the text of this passage see _ante_, Vol. VI. pp. 336-7. [47] The Federalist, No. XLVII. [48] Letter to Richard Henry Lee, November 15, 1775: Works, Vol. IV. p. 186. [49] Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States,--Preface: Ibid., p. 296. [50] Statutes at Large, ed. Hening, Vol. IX. p. 114. [51] Constitution of Massachusetts, Part I.: Declaration of Rights, Art. XXX. [52] History of Civilization in England, (London, 1868,) Vol. I. pp. 199, 200. [53] Ibid., p. 200. [54] Ibid., p. 201. [55] Ibid. [56] Sir H. L. Bulwer, Historical Characters, (4th edit.,) Vol. II. p. 331. [57] Speech at Great Falls, N. H., February 24, 1872, pp. 6, 7.