[121] Journal of Congress, April 26, 1783, Vol. VIII. p. 201.
[122] Commentaries, Vol. II. p. 94.
[123] These maxims are enforced with beautiful earnestness in a tract which appeared at Baltimore shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, with the following title-page: "Letter from Granville Sharp, Esq., of London, to the Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes and others unlawfully held in Bondage. Published by Order of the Society. Baltimore: Printed by D. Graham, L. Yundt, and W. Patton, in Calvert Street, near the Court-House. M.DCC.XCIII."
[124] Groves et al. v. Slaughter, 15 Peters, 507, 508.
[125] Milton, Comus, 456.
[126] Dryden, Epistle XVI. [XIV.], To Sir Godfrey Kneller.
[127] Letter to John F. Mercer, September 9, 1786: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. p. 159, note.
[128] Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. p. 159.
[129] Brissot de Warville, New Travels in the United States, 2d ed., Vol. I. pp. 246, 247.
[130] Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law: Works, Vol. III. p. 463.