[183] Matthew, xiii. 12.
[184] Senate Reports, No. 29, 41st Cong. 2d Sess.
[185] Congressional Globe, 33d Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, pp. 321, 323: Debate on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, March 3, 1854.
[186] Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, December 31, 1791. From an article entitled “Sketches of Boston and its Inhabitants,” purporting to be “extracted from a series of letters published in a late Nova Scotia paper.”
[187] Paradise Lost, Book X. 958-61.
[188] Act of April 20, 1818, Sec. 3: Statutes at Large, Vol. III. p. 448.
[189] Annals of Congress, 15th Cong. 1st Sess., col. 519.
[190] The case of the Hornet, as stated by Mr. Carpenter, was as follows:—“The Hornet was purchased in this country by Cubans, was taken into the open sea outside of the United States, and there armed and manned to cruise against Spain, and started on her way toward the waters of Cuba with arms and supplies for the revolutionists. Owing to the poor quality of her coal, she was unable to pursue her voyage, and put into a port of the United States, when she was libelled by the United States, upon the ground that she was intended for the ‘service of the people of a certain colony of the kingdom of Spain, to wit, the island of Cuba,’ etc. All of which is charged to be against the third section of the Neutrality Law.”—Congressional Globe, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., p. 144.
[191] Act of April 10, 1869, Sec. 7: Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI. p. 41.
[192] Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. p. 428.