Note 8, page 119. "Papers and memorials touching the subject of slavery shall be laid on the table without reading, debate, or reference." So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton. Note 9, page 120. The Female Anti-Slavery Society, at its first meeting in Concord, was assailed with stones and brickbats. Note 10, page 168. The election of Charles Sumner to the United States Senate "followed bard upon" the rendition of the fugitive Sims by the United States officials and the armed police of Boston. Note 11, page 290. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora,-- "If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."