Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20)

by Charles Sumner

[3] Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33.

[4] Chirac v. Chirac, 2 Wheaton, 269.

[5] Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheaton, 198.

[6] Madison's Debates, August 23, 1787.

[7] Blackstone, Commentaries, I. 412, 413.

[8] Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 16 Peters, 636.

[9] Ibid., 624.

[10] Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, Vol. I. pp. 30, 39. Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, Appendix, p. 713. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I. pp. 116-118.

[11] Charters and General Laws of Massachusetts Bay, Appendix, pp. 796, 797.

[12] From the original MS. in the Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 156.