[242] Rev. Ichabod Wiswall to Gov. Thomas Hinckley, of Plymouth, November 5, 1691: Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, Vol. I. p. 413; Hinckley Papers, Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 4th Ser. Vol. V. p. 301.
[243] Moniteur, May 21, 1850, p. 1761.
[244] Acts of July 2, 1862, and January 24, 1865: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502; Vol. XIII. p. 424.
[245] Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.
[246] William Lloyd Garrison was in the habit of calling it “a covenant with Death and a league with Hell.”
[247] Lincoln and Johnson, their Plan of Reconstruction and the Resumption of National Authority; First Paper: Hartford Daily Times, March 19, 1872.
[248] Mr. Davis’s brilliant life was closed by an early death, December 30, 1865, which deprived the country of his inestimable services in Reconstruction. See post, Vol. XIII. p. 104.
[249] Ante, Vol. X. p. 167.
[250] Ante, Vol. XI. p. 351.
[251] Ante, p. 179.