[198] Strictly true, during the delivery of the speech.
[199] L’Amérique devant l’Europe, pp. 262, 268, 440.
[200] Special Report of the Antislavery Conference in Paris, August 24 and 27, 1867, pp. 30, 31.
[201] Journal des Débats, 11 Oct., 1871.
[202] Cicero, Oratio ad Quirites post Reditum, c. 8,—quoted in Private Letters of Junius to H. S. Woodfall, No. 59, March 5, 1772: Woodfall’s Junius, (London, 1812,) Vol. I. p. 253.
[203] An Historical Research respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers: read before the Massachusetts Historical Society, August 14, 1862. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1862-63.
[204] This introduction is taken from the pamphlet edition of the Oration.
[205] Of Reformation in England, Book II.: Prose Works, ed. Symmons, Vol. I. p. 45.
[206] Rebellion Record, Vol. I. pp. 45, 46.
[207] The Debates in 1776 on the Declaration of Independence, etc., preserved by Thomas Jefferson: Madison Papers, Vol. I. p. 17; Jefferson’s Writings, Vol. I. p. 18.