[9]	Document No. 132, House of Representatives, 3rd session, 27th Congress.

[10]	Document; Report of Secretary of War; No. 2. Senate, 27th Congress, 2nd session; where it is proposed to invest in a general system of land defenses $51,677,929.

[11]	Exec. Documents of 1842-43, Vol. I. No. 3.

LINES ON SOME VIOLETS,

LEFT UPON MY DESK WHILE I WAS AT A FUNERAL.

He brought these violets yester eve,

While I was with the dead,

And when I hither came to grieve,

To me they meekly said—