[43] Speeches in the Senate on “Political Equality without Distinction of Color,” March 7, 1866, and the “Validity and Necessity of Fundamental Conditions on States,” June 10, 1868: Ante, Vol. XIII. pp. 307-9; Vol. XVI. pp. 246-9.
[44] Chap. XXV., Title.
[45] Chap. XXIX.
[46] Speech in the Senate, February 5 and 6, 1866: Ante, Vol. X. p. 184.
[47] The Federalist, No. LIV., by Alexander Hamilton.—Concerning the authorship of this paper, see the Historical Notice, by J. C. Hamilton, pp. xcv-cvi, and cxix-cxxvii, prefixed to his edition of the Federalist (Philadelphia, 1864).
[48] Elliot’s Debates, (2d edit.,) Vol. III. p. 367.
[49] 19 Howard, R., 476.
[50] M’Culloch v. State of Maryland: 4 Wheaton, R., 408-21.
[51] For the full text of the Convention, see Parliamentary Papers, 1868-9, Vol. LXIII.,—North America, No. 1, pp. 36-38; Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 1st Sess., Senate, No. 11,—Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, Vol. III. pp. 752-5.
[52] A term applied in England to the Ashburton Treaty,—and Lord Palmerston thought “most properly.”—Debate in the House of Commons, February 2, 1843: Hansard, 3d Ser., Vol. LXVI. coll. 87, 121, 127.