[272] Laws in relation to Freedmen: Executive Documents, 39th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 6, pp. 170, seqq.

[273] Speech on Financial Reconstruction, ante, pp. 445, seqq.

[274] Carlyle’s French Revolution, (New York, 1867,) Book IX. Ch. 4.

[275] Thiers, Histoire de la Révolution Française, (Paris, 1837,) Tom. VIII. p. 15: Directoire, Chap. I.

[276] Travels of Marco Polo, ed. Marsden, (London, 1818,) pp. 353, 354, 521, 547.