[226] “Parturient mountains have ere now produced muscipular abortions.”—Johnson’s Ghost: Rejected Addresses.
[227] Debates in the Federal Convention, August 25, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. III. pp. 1429, 1430.
[228] Æneid, tr. Dryden, Book III. 295, 296 [227, 228].
[229] Boston Recorder, February 9, 1866.
[230] Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (Boston, 1764), p. 14.
[231] Letter to William Tudor, June 1, 1818: Works, Vol. X. p. 315.
[232] Rights of the British Colonies, p. 29.
[233] Ibid., p. 38.
[234] Hutchinson’s Correspondence, quoted by Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. V. pp. 290, 291.
[235] Rights of the British Colonies, p. 8.