[261] Senate Reports, ut supra, p. 188.
[262] Ollivier: Debate in the Corps Législatif, July 15, 1870, previous to the Declaration of War against Prussia.—Journal Officiel du Soir, 17 Juillet 1870.
[263] Dana’s edition. Lawrence, 2d edit., pp. 455-56.
[264] Dana’s edition. Lawrence, 2d edit., p. 884.
[265] See Message to the House of Representatives, March 28, 1860, and the Report thereon: House Journal, p. 620; Reports of Committees, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 394.
[266] “Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.”—Æneid, VI. 853.
[267] Sonetto XXXVII.
[268] De Oratore, Lib. II. Cap. 20.