[310] See, ante, p. 442.
[311] “On a donné sa mesure à quarante ans.”
[312] See, ante, Vol. V. p. 310.
[313] Hon. James M. Ashley.
[314] On motion of Hon. William Vandever, of Iowa.
[315] Reported by Mr. Ashley, March 12, 1862, when the bill was read at length. Mr. Pendleton, after saying that it “ought to be entitled ‘A Bill to dissolve the Union and abolish the Constitution of the United States,’” moved to lay it on the table, which was done,—Yeas 65, Nays 56.
[316] Annals of Congress, 1st Cong. 1st Sess., col. 44, 420.
[317] Statutes at Large, Vol. I. p. 68.
[318] Ezra, vi. 1.
[319] May’s Parliamentary Practice, or Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament (London, 1859), p. 228.