[31] Speech in the Senate, March 6, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 1004.
[32] Speech in the Senate, January 31, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, pp. 104-109.
[33] Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., pp. 557, 596: January 23, 26, 1860.
[34] Message to the Legislature of South Carolina, November, 1835.
[35] Statutes at Large of South Carolina, Vol. VII. p. 397, Act No. 670, sec. 1.
[36] Civil Code, Art. 35.
[37] Laws of Maryland, Acts of 1798, Ch. CI. xii. 12.
[38] Stroud, Law relating to Slavery, pp. 22, 23.
[39] Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII., 68-71.
[40] Exodus, xxi. 16.