[1] Preston S. Brooks and Senator Butler had both died in the interval.
[2] This is borrowed almost literally from the words attributed by Plato to the Fathers of Athens, in the beautiful funeral discourse of the Menexenus.
[3] Plutarch, Lucullus, Cap. VIII.
[4] Livy, Hist., Lib. VIII. c. 6.
[5] Napier, Peninsular War, Book XXIV. ch. 6, Vol. VI. p. 688.
[6] Southey, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Coll. VIII., Vol. I. p. 211.
[7] Joseph de Maistre, Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, Tom. II. pp. 27, 32-35.
[8] Observations upon a Libel, etc., Works, Vol. III. p. 40.
[9] Lecture III., Vol. I. p. 45.
[10] Book III. ch. 1, sec. 1.