[151] Nell, Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812, pp. 23, 24.
[152] Senate Journal, 31st Cong. 1st Sess., p. 313, April 30, 1850.
[153] Mr. Schwartz was of Berks County, and had been a Democrat all his life, until he felt constrained on the Lecompton Question to take ground against his old party.
[154] “Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emtorem invenerit.”—Sallust, Jugurtha, c. 35.
[155] The Fox, Act V. sc. 8.
[156] Politics, Book I. ch. 4.
[157] Boswell, Life of Johnson, April 6, 1772, ed. Croker (London, 1835,) Vol. III. p. 212.
[158] Anecdotes of Painting in England: Hogarth, p. 723.
[159] Here was the prison of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, after his defeat and surrender at Sedan, September 1, 1870.
[160] This was the special thunder of Mr. McDuffie in the debates on the Tariff during the administration of General Jackson.