[238] Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 319.
[239] Finger-Point from Plymouth Rock: ante, Vol. III. p. 269.
[240] Cicero, Oratio in Pisonem, c. 32.
[241] History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, (Philadelphia, 1808,) Vol. II. p. 460, note.
[242] Collins, Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746.
[243] Hon. David C. Broderick, Senator of the United States from California, killed in a duel by David S. Terry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State, September 16, 1859.
[244] Thucydides, History, Book II. ch. 39.
[245] Since admission as a State its Senators had been of the Democratic party.
[246] John C. Breckinridge.
[247] Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 3.