[124] Grahame, History of the United States, Vol. III. p. 161.

[125] Ibid., p. 215.

[126] Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith, pp. 214-216, note F, 2d edition. See also Bacon's Essays, with Annotations by Whately, pp. 127-130: Annotations to Essay XV.

[127] Exodus, x. 7.

[128] Numbers, xxxiii. 58.

[129] Address to the States, April 26, 1783: Journal of Congress, Vol. VIII. p. 201.

[130] Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 16 Peters, 616.

[131] Reports of the Committees of the Senate, 33d Cong. 1st Sess., No. 199.

[132] See ante, p. 80.

[133] Nothing is clearer, under the rules of the Senate, than that Mr. Sumner was in order, when, on introducing his bill, he proceeded to state the causes for doing it.