[84] Hon. Henry Winter Davis, late Representative in Congress from Maryland.
[85] Acts of 37th Cong. 1st Sess., Ch. LX. sec. 4: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 319.
[86] “Sunt et belli, sicut pacis, jura.”—Livy, Lib. V. c. 27: quoted by Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Prolegom. § 26.
[87] Art. IX.
[88] Cicero, Orat. pro Milone, Cap. iv. § 10.
[89] Letter to the Secretary of State, August 22, 1815: American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. IV. p. 117.
[90] Quoting it in reply to “the authority that has been rung in our ears by the Senator of Massachusetts,” Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, said: “This was the utterance of Mr. Adams, before he was fired with that fanatical zeal, before he had that disease of negrophobia, that for a time dethroned his mighty intellect on that subject.”—Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., July 15, 1862, p. 3349.
[91] Congressional Globe, 27th Cong. 2d Sess., April 14, 1842, p. 424.
[92] The important passages introduced here will be found in an earlier speech, “Emancipation our Best Weapon,” ante, Vol. VI. pp. 21-23.
[93] Chap. 107, sec. 31.