FOOTNOTES:
[86] Simple Sapling is the name given to one of the dramatis personæ in Mrs. Warren's satirical piece called [The Group]. In one copy, which has a written key to the characters, Nathaniel R. Thomas is named, in another Abijah White.
[87] A brief account of this enterprise by an eye-witness is given in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. II., p. 165.