[82] Hon. Josiah Quincy.
[83] Executive Document No. 132, Twenty-Seventh Congress, Third Session.
[84] Report of Secretary of War, Senate Document No. 2, Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session,—where we are asked to invest in a general system of land defences $51,677,929.
[85] Executive Document No. 3, Twenty-Seventh Congress, Third Session.
[86] Longfellow, The Arsenal at Springfield.
[87] The Duke of Wellington.
[88] I refer to the pamphlet of S.E. Coues, "United States Navy: What is its Use?"
[89] The Earl of Leicester, father of Sidney, in an anxious letter, August 30, 1660, writes his son: "It is said that the University of Copenhagen brought their Album unto you, desiring you to write something therein, and that your did scribere in Albo these words [setting forth the verses], and put your name to it"; and then he adds, "This cannot but be publicly known, if it be true.... Either you must live in exile or very privately here, and perhaps not safely." The restoration of Charles the Second had just taken place. (Meadley, Memoirs of Algernon Sidney, pp. 84, 323-325.) Lord Molesworth, in a work which first appeared in 1694, mentions the verses as written by Sidney in "the Book of Mottoes in the King's Library," and then tells the story, that the French Ambassador, who did not know a word of Latin, on learning their meaning, tore them from the book, as a libel on the French government, and its influence in Denmark. (Molesworth, Account of Denmark, Preface.) The inference from this narrative would seem to be that the verses were by Sidney himself.
[90] Æneid, VI. 852.
[91] De Republica, Lib. II. cap. 43.