FOOTNOTES:
[450] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. i. p. 243.
[451] Bancroft, vol. i. 5th ed. p. 175.
[452] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iii. pp. 492, 493.
[453] There is no law making the manufacturing of whiskey legal in the United States; and yet the United-States government makes laws to regulate the business, and collects a revenue from it. It exists by and with the consent of the government, and, in a sense, is legal.
[454] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. p. 34.
[455] I have searched diligently for the Act of February, among the Rhode-Island Collections and Records, but have not found it. It was evidently more comprehensive than the above Act.
[456] R.I. Col. Recs., vol iv. p. 50.
[457] R.I. Col. Recs, vol. iv. pp. 53, 54.
[458] R.I. Coll. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 54, 55.
[459] R.I. Col. Recs., vol iv. p. 59.
[460] J. Carter Brown's Manuscripts, vol. viii. Nos. 506, 512.
[461] It was a specious sort of reasoning. I learn that the bank over on the corner is to be robbed to-night at twelve o'clock. Shall I go and rob it at ten o'clock; because, if I do not do so, another person will, two hours later?
[462] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 133-135.
[463] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 191-193.
[464] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv p. 225.
[465] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 423, 424.
[466] Ibid., p. 330.
[467] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 209.
[468] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. p. 454.
[469] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 471.
[470] Ibid., vol. iv. pp. 415, 416.
[471] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. v. pp. 72, 73.
[472] R.I. Col. Recs., vol vi. pp. 64, 65.
[473] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. vii. pp. 251, 252.
[474] American Annals, vol ii. pp. 107,155, 156, 184, and 265.