[190] Town Records, MS., March 24: Boston Gazette, March 31, 1766.
[191] Diary, December 18, 1765: Works, Vol. II. p. 154.
[192] Hansard, Parliamentary History, January 28, 1766, Vol. XVI. col. 140.
[193] Ibid., January 14, 1766, Vol. XVI. 104-108.
[194] Speech on the Compromise Measures, December 16, 1851: Congressional Globe, Vol. XXIV, p. 93.
[195] Resolves concerning Slavery, May 1, 1850: Acts and Resolves, 1849-51, p. 519.
[196] The possibility of scandal and commotion was recognized by the great doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, as proper to determine human conduct. According to him, an unjust law is not binding in conscience, nisi forte propter vitandum scandalum vel turbationem.—Summa Theologica, 1ma 2dæ, Quæst. XCVI. art. 4.
[197] Hor., Carm. III. vi. 19, 20.
[198] Grimm, Correspondance, Février, 1786, Tom. XIV. pp. 453, 454.
[199] Deuteronomy, xiv. 21.