[182] This last requirement was the substance of a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, adopted in the House February 20, 1866, by a vote of 109 Yeas to 40 Nays, and in the Senate March 2d, Yeas 29, Nays 18.
[183] Hon. Alexander H. Rice, a Representative of Boston, being absent from Boston, addressed a letter to the President.
[184] Bacon v. Bancroft, 3 Law Reporter, 387. See, also, Lee v. Lincoln, 1 Story, R., 610.
[185] This incident is related by Mr. Sumner in his Introduction to the Boston edition of the Nasby Letters, in 1872.
[186] “Ce furent les plus grands intérêts de l’univers décidés par des rencontres de patrouilles.”—Mémoires, publiés par sa Famille, Tom. V. p. 167.
[187] Journal of the Federal Convention, September 12, 1787, p. 368.
[188] Letter, August 1, 1786: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. pp. 187, 188.
[189] Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858: Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, p. 1.
[190] Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858: Political Debates, p. 2.
[191] Political Debates, p. 75.