[55] 1 United States Statutes at Large, 578.
[56] Annals of Congress, 5th Cong., 1797-1799, col. 2120.
[57] Ibid., col. 2123.
[58] Ibid., col. 2126.
[59] Executive Documents, 29th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 2, p. 11.
[60] 9 United States Statutes at Large, pp. 109, 110.
[61] Executive Documents, 33d Cong. 1st Sess., 1853-54, No. 108, pp. 40, 42.
[62] United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XI. p. 720. Wheaton, Elements of International Law (ed. Lawrence, 1863), note, p. 335, Part II. Ch. 4.
[63] This illustration, deemed necessary to expose the hateful violence to a beautiful region for the sake of Slavery, was denounced by Mr. Cass, in the Senate, while Mr. Sumner was absent, as “an unpatriotic metaphor”, and the critical Senator added: “I believe that hundreds of thousands of copies of that production which contains this passage, and many others equally objectionable, were sent through the country during the last Presidential election.”—Congressional Globe, 34th Cong. 3d Sess., p. 90, December 11, 1856.
[64] Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanarum, Lib. IV. cap. 2, § 4. Five years later the fury of the propagandists broke forth in the war here foretold.