[235] Ante, p. 193.
[236] Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI. p. 3.
[237] The Veto of the Third Reconstruction Act.
[238] Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. p. 31.
[239] Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. pp. 263, 264.
[240] The character of the Senate as a court of impeachment was discussed by Mr. Sumner in his Opinion on the Impeachment of President Johnson.
[241] In the Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed’s Chronicles, and dated 1586, one of these gifts is mentioned: “Of the potato and such venerous roots as are brought out of Spaine, Portingale, and the Indies to furnish vp our bankets, I speake not.” Book II. Ch. VI., Vol. I. p. 281 (London, 1807).
[242] Act. II. 374-379.
[243] Bacon’s Essays, annot. Whately, (London, 1858,) p. 379.
[244] June 20, 1800. Memorials and Correspondence, ed. Russell, Vol. IV. p. 393.