FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Atlantic Monthly, May Number.
[2] "Clearly a fictitious appellation; for, if we admit the latter of these names to be in a manner English, what is Leigh? Christian nomenclature knows no such."
[3] "It is clearly of transatlantic origin."
"'Imperfectus adhuc infans genetricis ab alvo
Eripitur, patrioque tener (si credere dignum)
Insuitur femori ...
Tutaque bis geniti sunt incunabula Bacchi.'
Metamorph. Lib. 3."
[5] It was Philip II. who gave to the Havana a coat of arms, in which was a golden key, to signify that it was the key of the Indies. The house being lost, the key has, oddly enough, become more valuable than ever to Spain.
[6] The "Annual Register" states that but 2,500 of the conquerors were fit for duty when the Havana surrendered. The Boston "Gazette" says 3,000, and that the arrival of reinforcements was critical. Even disease could not break down armies in those days. The Spaniards had 6,000 sick.
[7] The writer is known to the publishers of the "Atlantic Monthly": he is one whose word is not and cannot be called in question; and he pledges his word that the above is exact and proven fact. Horace Mann, years ago, made public some similar cases.
[8] Constitutional History of England, Vol. II. p. 340.
[9] Carlyle's Life of Cromwell, Part IX. Vol. II. p. 168.
[10] Ludlow's Memoirs, p. 559.
[11] Ibid. p. 580.
[12] Ibid. p. 582.
[13] Kent's Commentaries, Vol. I. p. 292, note b.
[14] Elliott's Debates, Vol. III, p. 22.
[15] Elliott's Debates, Vol. III. p. 44.
[16] Ibid. p. 29.
[17] Rushworth's Historical Collections, Vol. I. p. 609.
[18] See Cushing, Parliamentary Law, p. 284.
[19] Phillimore's International Law, Vol. I. p. 147.
[20] Burke's Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs.
[21] Macaulay's History of England, Vol. II. p. 623.
[22] Macaulay's History of England, Vol. II. p. 624.
[23] John Adams's Works, Vol. II. p. 490.
[24] Ibid. Vol. III. pp. 17, 19, 45, 46.
[25] Webster's Works, Vol. VI. pp. 225, 226, 227, 228, 231.
[26] The Gorgias of Plato.
[27] American Insurance Company v. Carter, 1 Peters, p. 542.
[28] Democracy in America, Vol. II. ch. 25, p. 343.
[29] Thirty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, 2d May, 1862, Part III. p. 1923.
[30] Act of Congress, July 2, 1862, ch. 123.
[31] Jewish tradition, in spite of German criticism, still ascribes the Book of Ecclesiastes to Solomon.
[32] The Cæsars, p. 170, Boston edition.
[33] This word, as Marcus uses it, is equivalent to religion.
[34] p. 25.
[35] p. 29.
[36] p. 217.