[158] Congressional Globe, 24th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, p. 435; Congressional Debates, Vol. XII. Part 4, col. 4047: May 25, 1836.
[159] Congressional Globe, 27th Cong. 1st Sess., pp. 27, 38, June 7th and 9th, 1841. The speech of June 7th was long, but was never reported. Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, while declaring his devotion to his Southern brethren, and tendering his services, “even as a corporal or a private,” said that he heard this speech with “astonishment and horror.” (Ibid., pp. 38, 39.) The speech of June 9th is brief.
[160] Congressional Globe, 27th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 342, March 21, 1842.
[161] April 14 and 15, 1842.
[162] Congressional Globe, 27th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 429.
[163] Congressional Globe, 27th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 429.
[164] Ibid.
[165] “Totidem esse hostes, quot servos.” A saying of Cato the elder. (Seneca, Epist. XLVII.). Archdeacon Paley, the lucid moralist, in a speech at Carlisle, February 9, 1792, on the Slave-Trade, announced, as “a principle inherent in every man, ‘that a slave watches his opportunity to get free.’” Works, (Boston and Newport, 1810-12,) Vol. V. p. 498.
[166] History, Book I. ch. 101; Book VII. ch. 27; Book VIII. ch. 40.
[167] Ibid., Book IV. ch. 80.