Chapter 17

[1]Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, 1864, art.,Diplomatic Correspondence, pp. 364-366.[2]Quæstiones Juris Publici, tr. Du Ponceau, Lib. I. cap. 8.[3]Commentaries on American Law, Vol. I. p. 117.[4]International Law, pp. 517, 520.[5]Writings, Vol. III. p. 548.[6]To M. de Ternant, May 15, 1793: Jefferson’s Writings, Vol. III. p. 561.[7]Vol. VI. pp. 348, 352, July 23, 1814.[8]Froude, History of England (London, 1863), Vol. VIII. pp. 481-483.[9]Motley, History of the Netherlands, Vol. II. pp. 284, 285.[10]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime des Nations, Tom. II. p. 60.[11]Le Droit des Gens, Liv. III. ch. 7, § 132.[12]Émérigon, Traité des Assurances (Marseille, 1783), Tom. I. p. 500, Ch. 12, § 23. See, also, Azuni, Droit Maritime de l’Europe (Paris, An VI.), Tom. II. p. 306, note, Part. II. ch. 4, art. 4, § 5.[13]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime, Tom. II. pp. 70, 71.[14]Ibid., Tom. II. p. 71.[15]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime, Tom. II. p. 70.[16]Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 3d Sess., Senate, No. 4.[17]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. pp. 222-224.[18]Ibid., p. 238.[19]Ibid., p. 240.[20]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. pp. 81, 82.[21]American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. III. pp. 6, 183, 499, 500.[22]Thiers, Histoire du Consulat et de l’Empire, Tom. VIII. Liv. 28, pp. 185-199.[23]Niles’s Register, Vol. VI. pp. 338-344, 347-353. Porter’s Journal (New York, 1822), Ch. XVIII.[24]Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, ed. Lawrence, note 217, p. 721. Executive Documents, 32d Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 24. Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. p. 82.[25]Harris’s Life of Bainbridge, pp. 157, 158.[26]Executive Documents, 25th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R. No. 183. Webster’s Works, Vol. V. p. 116; Vol. VI. pp. 261, 300.[27]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. p. 370.[28]Memoirs of George II., Vol. II. p. 378.[29]Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 13, 1759: Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Cunningham, (London, 1857,) Vol. III. p. 271.[30]Hautefeuille, Des Droits et des Devoirs des Nations Neutres (2me édit.), Tom. I. p. 329.[31]Mahon’s History of England, Vol. IV. p. 148; Appendix, pp. xxxv-xxxviii.[32]Mahon, History of England, Vol. IV., Appendix, pp. xxxvii-xli.[33]Desoteux, Mémoires sur l’Administration de Pombal, Tom. II. p. 13.[34]Annual Register, 1762, p. 220.[35]Juvenal, Sat. II. 24.[36]Annuaire des Deux Mondes, 1862-63, pp. 920-926. See also Parliamentary Papers for 1863, Vol. LXXIII., where Earl Russell’s note is without an offensive clause which appears in the French authority.[37]Annuaire des Deux Mondes, 1862-63, p. 925.[38]MS. Letter of Henry A. Hopner, Lynn, December 2, 1864.[39]Reciprocity Treaty: Executive Documents, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R., No. 96, pp. 28, 29.[40]Navigation of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes: Reports of House Committees, 34th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 316, p. 10.[41]Reciprocity Treaty: Reports of House Committees, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 39, p. 6.[42]Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., Senate, No. 55, p. 93.[43]Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward, March 23, 1865: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 39th Cong. 1st Sess.: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865-66, Part I. p. 258.[44]Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun: Preface to Political Works (Glasgow, 1749), p. viii.[45]Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1838; Warev.Hylton, 3 Dallas, R., 261. See also,ante, Speech on the Abrogation of Treaties, Vol. V. pp. 102, 103.[46]2 Black, R., 671.[47]Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865-66, Part I. p. 164: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 39th Cong. 1st Sess.[48]Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. III. pp. 59, 60.[49]Commentaries on American Law, Vol. I. p. 94.[50]International Law, p. 296.[51]Le Droit des Gens, Liv. II. ch. 18, § 339.[52]Ibid., Liv. III. ch. 8, § 155.[53]General Orders, Adjutant General’s Office, 1863, No. 100.[54]Instructions, Sec. I. art. 27.[55]Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. III. p. 149, Part IX. ch. 8, § 103.[56]Letter to Mr. Murray, Rome, May 9, 1817: Moore’s Life of Byron (London, 1847), p. 355.[57]De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. I. ch. 3.[58]Speech in Faneuil Hall, January 9, 1865: Boston Daily Advertiser, January 10, 1865; Orations and Speeches, Vol. IV. pp. 757, 758.[59]Ben Jonson, The Fox, Act II. Sc. 6.[60]Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 32, pp. 1, 2.[61]Inferno, tr. Wright, Canto XXXIII. 85-87.[62]Ante, Vol. III. p. 51.[63]That question was then under discussion.Ante, Vol. X. pp. 336, 337.[64]Acts of the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1831-2, p. 80.[65]Memorial of the Executive Committee of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies: Documents accompanying the Governor’s Message to the Legislature of New Jersey, October, 1841: Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1841-2, pp. 29, 30.[66]Memorial of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company: Ibid., p. 32.[67]American State Papers, Post-Office Department, p. 15.[68]Gibbonsv.Ogden, 9 Wheaton, R., 195.[69]United Statesv.Coombs, 12 Peters, S. C. R., 78.[70]7 Howard, R., 400.[71]Ibid., 462, 464.[72]State of Pennsylvaniav.Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company: 18 Howard, R., 421.[73]Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. pp. 569, 570.[74]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1134.[75]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1144.[76]Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 334.[77]Acts of the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1830-31, p. 75.[78]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1146.[79]Ibid., § 1136.[80]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1131.[81]The West River Bridge Companyv.Dix et al., 6 Howard, R., 507.[82]Abridgment of American Law, Appendix to Vol. IX. p. 10.[83]Yates’s Minutes, June 29, 1787: Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. I. p. 461.[84]Ibid., p. 464.[85]Madison’s Debates, July 7, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. II. p. 1049.[86]Madison’s Debates, September 12, 1787.[87]Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, Book I. ch. 79, sec. 1.[88]Works, Vol. VI. p. 8.[89]Works, Vol. VI. p. 11.[90]Ibid., pp. 9, 10.[91]Annual Message, December 31, 1855.[92]Dred Scottv.Sandford, 19 Howard, R., 407.[93]Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, Vol. III. pp. 49, 84.[94]Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, Vol. X. p. 452, Appendix.[95]Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 2d Ser. Vol. VIII. p. 184.[96]Historical Magazine, June, 1864, Vol. VIII. pp. 195, 197: first printed Boston, 1700.[97]Washburn, Judicial History of Massachusetts, p. 202.[98]Commonwealthv.Aves, 18 Pickering, R., 209.[99]Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. I. p. 243.[100]Act to prevent the Importation of Negroes and Indians, June 7, 1712: Laws, ed. Dallas (Philadelphia, 1797), Vol. I. p. 93; Archives, ed. Hazard, Vol. I. pp. 160, 162.[101]Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery: Laws, ed. Dallas, Vol. I. p. 838.[102]Dred Scottv.Sandford, 19 Howard, R., 572, 573.[103]Statev.Manuel, 4 Devereux & Battle, R., 25.[104]Journals of Congress, Vol. III. p. 503; Vol. IV. pp. 379, 380.[105]Hoare’s Memoirs of Granville Sharp (London, 1820), p. 157.[106]Letter to a Friend, February 26, 1791; Journal, February 12, 1772; Thoughts upon Slavery, V. 5: Works (New York, 1856), Vol. VII. p. 237; Vol. IV. p. 366; Vol. VI. p. 292.[107]Rights of the British Colonies, p. 43.[108]Address (Philadelphia, 1773, 2d edit.), with a Vindication of the same, pp. 8, 15, 52.[109]Letter to Robert Pleasants, January 18, 1773: Goodell’s Slavery and Antislavery, p. 70, note.[110]Notes on Virginia, Query XVIII.[111]Clarkson, History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade (Philadelphia, 1808), Ch. V., Vol. I. p. 112.[112]Brief Statement of the Rise and Progress of the Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends against Slavery and the Slave-Trade (Philadelphia, 1843), p. 8.[113]Notices of Negro Slavery as connected with Pennsylvania, by Edward Bettle: Mem. Hist. Soc. Penn., Vol. I. pp. 366, 367.[114]Brief Statement, p. 43.[115]A Testimony against that Anti-Christian Practice of making Slaves of Men: Macy’s History of Nantucket, p. 279.[116]Memoirs of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford, by Roberts Vaux, pp. 29, 64. Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, p. 40.[117]Clarkson, Vol. I. p. 113. Brief Statement, p. 17.[118]Clarkson, Vol. I. p. 119. Brief Statement, p. 30.[119]Brief Statement, pp. 43-56.[120]Ibid., p. 47.[121]Brief Statement, p. 50.[122]Ezekiel, xxii. 29. Brief Statement, p. 53.[123]History of the United States, Vol. IV. p. 176.[124]Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, from 1716 to 1788, (Philadelphia, 1841,) p. 540.[125]Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, p. 108.[126]Newport Church Records, March 5, 1784: Memoir of Dr. Hopkins, prefixed to his Works, ed. Parks, (Boston, 1854,) Vol. I. p. 157.[127]Slavery of the Africans, a Dialogue: Works, Vol. II. p. 552.[128]Sermon on the Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans, September 15, 1791.[129]Annals of Congress, 1st Cong. 2d Sess., col. 1197, 1198.[130]Speeches in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1788 and 1789: American Museum, Vol. VI. p. 75, July, 1789; Wheaton’s Life of Pinkney, p. 11.[131]Rushworth’s Historical Collections, Vol. II. p. 468.[132]Howell’s State Trials, Vol. III. col. 1315.[133]Holinshed’s Chronicles (London, 1807-8), Introduction, Historical Description of Britain, by William Harrison, Book II. ch. 5, Vol. I. p. 275.[134]Holy and Profane State, Book II. ch. 21.[135]Smithv.Brown and Cooper, 2 Salkeld, R., 666.[136]Chamberlainv.Harvey, 1 Lord Raymond, R., 147.[137]Smithv.Gould, 2 Lord Raymond, R., 1274.[138]Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Vol. II. p. 138.[139]Shanleyv.Hervey, cited by Hargrave, arguing in the Somerset case: Howell’s State Trials, Vol. XX. col. 56.[140]Ibid., col. 82.[141]See Brougham’s Speeches (Edinburgh, 1838), Vol. II. pp. 6, 631.[142]Cragii Jus Feudale, Lib. I. Dieg. 11, § 32.[143]Knightv.Wedderburn, in note to the Somerset case: Howell’s State Trials, Vol. XX. col. 2-7.[144]Two Treatises of Government, Book I. ch. 1, § 1.[145]Letter to William Drummond, August 13, 1766: Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. Croker, (London, 1848,) Vol. III. p. 11.[146]Theory of Moral Sentiments (Edinburgh, 1808), Part V. ch. 2, Vol. II. p. 34.[147]Essays, Part II. No. XI.; Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations: Philosophical Works (Edinburgh, 1826), Vol. III. p. 427.[148]Debates in the Federal Convention, August 22, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. III. p. 1391.[149]Notes on Virginia, Query XVIII.[150]The Task, Book II. 40-42.[151]Speech on the Trial of Warren Hastings, June 6, 1788: Moore’s Memoirs of Sheridan (London, 1825), Vol. I. p. 505.[152]Koch et Schoell, Histoire Abrégée des Traités de Paix, Tom. XI. p. 178.[153]Causes Célèbres (Paris, 1739-53), Tom. XIII. pp. 502-505: Liberté réclamée par un Nègre contre son maître.[154]Institutes Coutumières, Liv. I. § 24, Tom. I. pp. 38-41.[155]Vies des Hommes Illustres et Grands Capitaines François, Discours LXXVIII.: Œuvres (Paris, 1822-23), Tom. III. p. 184.[156]Commonweal, tr. Knolles, Book I. ch. 5, p. 42.[157]Causes Célèbres, Tom. XIII. pp. 549, 550.[158]Recueil d’Édits, etc., concernant l’Administration de la Justice et la Police des Colonies Françaises de l’Amérique (Paris, 1765), pp. 67, 89, 128.[159]Causes Célèbres, Tom. XIII. p. 549.[160]Vol. XX. col. 12-16, note.[161]Un Nègre et une Négresse qui réclamoient leur liberté contre un Juif: Causes Célèbres (Paris, 1775-87), Tom. XXXVI. pp. 49-110.

[1]Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, 1864, art.,Diplomatic Correspondence, pp. 364-366.

[2]Quæstiones Juris Publici, tr. Du Ponceau, Lib. I. cap. 8.

[3]Commentaries on American Law, Vol. I. p. 117.

[4]International Law, pp. 517, 520.

[5]Writings, Vol. III. p. 548.

[6]To M. de Ternant, May 15, 1793: Jefferson’s Writings, Vol. III. p. 561.

[7]Vol. VI. pp. 348, 352, July 23, 1814.

[8]Froude, History of England (London, 1863), Vol. VIII. pp. 481-483.

[9]Motley, History of the Netherlands, Vol. II. pp. 284, 285.

[10]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime des Nations, Tom. II. p. 60.

[11]Le Droit des Gens, Liv. III. ch. 7, § 132.

[12]Émérigon, Traité des Assurances (Marseille, 1783), Tom. I. p. 500, Ch. 12, § 23. See, also, Azuni, Droit Maritime de l’Europe (Paris, An VI.), Tom. II. p. 306, note, Part. II. ch. 4, art. 4, § 5.

[13]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime, Tom. II. pp. 70, 71.

[14]Ibid., Tom. II. p. 71.

[15]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime, Tom. II. p. 70.

[16]Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 3d Sess., Senate, No. 4.

[17]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. pp. 222-224.

[18]Ibid., p. 238.

[19]Ibid., p. 240.

[20]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. pp. 81, 82.

[21]American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. III. pp. 6, 183, 499, 500.

[22]Thiers, Histoire du Consulat et de l’Empire, Tom. VIII. Liv. 28, pp. 185-199.

[23]Niles’s Register, Vol. VI. pp. 338-344, 347-353. Porter’s Journal (New York, 1822), Ch. XVIII.

[24]Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, ed. Lawrence, note 217, p. 721. Executive Documents, 32d Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 24. Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. p. 82.

[25]Harris’s Life of Bainbridge, pp. 157, 158.

[26]Executive Documents, 25th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R. No. 183. Webster’s Works, Vol. V. p. 116; Vol. VI. pp. 261, 300.

[27]Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres, Tom. II. p. 370.

[28]Memoirs of George II., Vol. II. p. 378.

[29]Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 13, 1759: Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Cunningham, (London, 1857,) Vol. III. p. 271.

[30]Hautefeuille, Des Droits et des Devoirs des Nations Neutres (2me édit.), Tom. I. p. 329.

[31]Mahon’s History of England, Vol. IV. p. 148; Appendix, pp. xxxv-xxxviii.

[32]Mahon, History of England, Vol. IV., Appendix, pp. xxxvii-xli.

[33]Desoteux, Mémoires sur l’Administration de Pombal, Tom. II. p. 13.

[34]Annual Register, 1762, p. 220.

[35]Juvenal, Sat. II. 24.

[36]Annuaire des Deux Mondes, 1862-63, pp. 920-926. See also Parliamentary Papers for 1863, Vol. LXXIII., where Earl Russell’s note is without an offensive clause which appears in the French authority.

[37]Annuaire des Deux Mondes, 1862-63, p. 925.

[38]MS. Letter of Henry A. Hopner, Lynn, December 2, 1864.

[39]Reciprocity Treaty: Executive Documents, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R., No. 96, pp. 28, 29.

[40]Navigation of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes: Reports of House Committees, 34th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 316, p. 10.

[41]Reciprocity Treaty: Reports of House Committees, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 39, p. 6.

[42]Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., Senate, No. 55, p. 93.

[43]Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward, March 23, 1865: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 39th Cong. 1st Sess.: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865-66, Part I. p. 258.

[44]Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun: Preface to Political Works (Glasgow, 1749), p. viii.

[45]Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1838; Warev.Hylton, 3 Dallas, R., 261. See also,ante, Speech on the Abrogation of Treaties, Vol. V. pp. 102, 103.

[46]2 Black, R., 671.

[47]Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865-66, Part I. p. 164: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 39th Cong. 1st Sess.

[48]Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. III. pp. 59, 60.

[49]Commentaries on American Law, Vol. I. p. 94.

[50]International Law, p. 296.

[51]Le Droit des Gens, Liv. II. ch. 18, § 339.

[52]Ibid., Liv. III. ch. 8, § 155.

[53]General Orders, Adjutant General’s Office, 1863, No. 100.

[54]Instructions, Sec. I. art. 27.

[55]Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. III. p. 149, Part IX. ch. 8, § 103.

[56]Letter to Mr. Murray, Rome, May 9, 1817: Moore’s Life of Byron (London, 1847), p. 355.

[57]De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. I. ch. 3.

[58]Speech in Faneuil Hall, January 9, 1865: Boston Daily Advertiser, January 10, 1865; Orations and Speeches, Vol. IV. pp. 757, 758.

[59]Ben Jonson, The Fox, Act II. Sc. 6.

[60]Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 32, pp. 1, 2.

[61]Inferno, tr. Wright, Canto XXXIII. 85-87.

[62]Ante, Vol. III. p. 51.

[63]That question was then under discussion.Ante, Vol. X. pp. 336, 337.

[64]Acts of the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1831-2, p. 80.

[65]Memorial of the Executive Committee of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies: Documents accompanying the Governor’s Message to the Legislature of New Jersey, October, 1841: Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1841-2, pp. 29, 30.

[66]Memorial of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company: Ibid., p. 32.

[67]American State Papers, Post-Office Department, p. 15.

[68]Gibbonsv.Ogden, 9 Wheaton, R., 195.

[69]United Statesv.Coombs, 12 Peters, S. C. R., 78.

[70]7 Howard, R., 400.

[71]Ibid., 462, 464.

[72]State of Pennsylvaniav.Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company: 18 Howard, R., 421.

[73]Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. pp. 569, 570.

[74]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1134.

[75]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1144.

[76]Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 334.

[77]Acts of the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1830-31, p. 75.

[78]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1146.

[79]Ibid., § 1136.

[80]Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1131.

[81]The West River Bridge Companyv.Dix et al., 6 Howard, R., 507.

[82]Abridgment of American Law, Appendix to Vol. IX. p. 10.

[83]Yates’s Minutes, June 29, 1787: Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. I. p. 461.

[84]Ibid., p. 464.

[85]Madison’s Debates, July 7, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. II. p. 1049.

[86]Madison’s Debates, September 12, 1787.

[87]Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, Book I. ch. 79, sec. 1.

[88]Works, Vol. VI. p. 8.

[89]Works, Vol. VI. p. 11.

[90]Ibid., pp. 9, 10.

[91]Annual Message, December 31, 1855.

[92]Dred Scottv.Sandford, 19 Howard, R., 407.

[93]Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, Vol. III. pp. 49, 84.

[94]Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, Vol. X. p. 452, Appendix.

[95]Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 2d Ser. Vol. VIII. p. 184.

[96]Historical Magazine, June, 1864, Vol. VIII. pp. 195, 197: first printed Boston, 1700.

[97]Washburn, Judicial History of Massachusetts, p. 202.

[98]Commonwealthv.Aves, 18 Pickering, R., 209.

[99]Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. I. p. 243.

[100]Act to prevent the Importation of Negroes and Indians, June 7, 1712: Laws, ed. Dallas (Philadelphia, 1797), Vol. I. p. 93; Archives, ed. Hazard, Vol. I. pp. 160, 162.

[101]Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery: Laws, ed. Dallas, Vol. I. p. 838.

[102]Dred Scottv.Sandford, 19 Howard, R., 572, 573.

[103]Statev.Manuel, 4 Devereux & Battle, R., 25.

[104]Journals of Congress, Vol. III. p. 503; Vol. IV. pp. 379, 380.

[105]Hoare’s Memoirs of Granville Sharp (London, 1820), p. 157.

[106]Letter to a Friend, February 26, 1791; Journal, February 12, 1772; Thoughts upon Slavery, V. 5: Works (New York, 1856), Vol. VII. p. 237; Vol. IV. p. 366; Vol. VI. p. 292.

[107]Rights of the British Colonies, p. 43.

[108]Address (Philadelphia, 1773, 2d edit.), with a Vindication of the same, pp. 8, 15, 52.

[109]Letter to Robert Pleasants, January 18, 1773: Goodell’s Slavery and Antislavery, p. 70, note.

[110]Notes on Virginia, Query XVIII.

[111]Clarkson, History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade (Philadelphia, 1808), Ch. V., Vol. I. p. 112.

[112]Brief Statement of the Rise and Progress of the Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends against Slavery and the Slave-Trade (Philadelphia, 1843), p. 8.

[113]Notices of Negro Slavery as connected with Pennsylvania, by Edward Bettle: Mem. Hist. Soc. Penn., Vol. I. pp. 366, 367.

[114]Brief Statement, p. 43.

[115]A Testimony against that Anti-Christian Practice of making Slaves of Men: Macy’s History of Nantucket, p. 279.

[116]Memoirs of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford, by Roberts Vaux, pp. 29, 64. Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, p. 40.

[117]Clarkson, Vol. I. p. 113. Brief Statement, p. 17.

[118]Clarkson, Vol. I. p. 119. Brief Statement, p. 30.

[119]Brief Statement, pp. 43-56.

[120]Ibid., p. 47.

[121]Brief Statement, p. 50.

[122]Ezekiel, xxii. 29. Brief Statement, p. 53.

[123]History of the United States, Vol. IV. p. 176.

[124]Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, from 1716 to 1788, (Philadelphia, 1841,) p. 540.

[125]Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, p. 108.

[126]Newport Church Records, March 5, 1784: Memoir of Dr. Hopkins, prefixed to his Works, ed. Parks, (Boston, 1854,) Vol. I. p. 157.

[127]Slavery of the Africans, a Dialogue: Works, Vol. II. p. 552.

[128]Sermon on the Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans, September 15, 1791.

[129]Annals of Congress, 1st Cong. 2d Sess., col. 1197, 1198.

[130]Speeches in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1788 and 1789: American Museum, Vol. VI. p. 75, July, 1789; Wheaton’s Life of Pinkney, p. 11.

[131]Rushworth’s Historical Collections, Vol. II. p. 468.

[132]Howell’s State Trials, Vol. III. col. 1315.

[133]Holinshed’s Chronicles (London, 1807-8), Introduction, Historical Description of Britain, by William Harrison, Book II. ch. 5, Vol. I. p. 275.

[134]Holy and Profane State, Book II. ch. 21.

[135]Smithv.Brown and Cooper, 2 Salkeld, R., 666.

[136]Chamberlainv.Harvey, 1 Lord Raymond, R., 147.

[137]Smithv.Gould, 2 Lord Raymond, R., 1274.

[138]Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Vol. II. p. 138.

[139]Shanleyv.Hervey, cited by Hargrave, arguing in the Somerset case: Howell’s State Trials, Vol. XX. col. 56.

[140]Ibid., col. 82.

[141]See Brougham’s Speeches (Edinburgh, 1838), Vol. II. pp. 6, 631.

[142]Cragii Jus Feudale, Lib. I. Dieg. 11, § 32.

[143]Knightv.Wedderburn, in note to the Somerset case: Howell’s State Trials, Vol. XX. col. 2-7.

[144]Two Treatises of Government, Book I. ch. 1, § 1.

[145]Letter to William Drummond, August 13, 1766: Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. Croker, (London, 1848,) Vol. III. p. 11.

[146]Theory of Moral Sentiments (Edinburgh, 1808), Part V. ch. 2, Vol. II. p. 34.

[147]Essays, Part II. No. XI.; Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations: Philosophical Works (Edinburgh, 1826), Vol. III. p. 427.

[148]Debates in the Federal Convention, August 22, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. III. p. 1391.

[149]Notes on Virginia, Query XVIII.

[150]The Task, Book II. 40-42.

[151]Speech on the Trial of Warren Hastings, June 6, 1788: Moore’s Memoirs of Sheridan (London, 1825), Vol. I. p. 505.

[152]Koch et Schoell, Histoire Abrégée des Traités de Paix, Tom. XI. p. 178.

[153]Causes Célèbres (Paris, 1739-53), Tom. XIII. pp. 502-505: Liberté réclamée par un Nègre contre son maître.

[154]Institutes Coutumières, Liv. I. § 24, Tom. I. pp. 38-41.

[155]Vies des Hommes Illustres et Grands Capitaines François, Discours LXXVIII.: Œuvres (Paris, 1822-23), Tom. III. p. 184.

[156]Commonweal, tr. Knolles, Book I. ch. 5, p. 42.

[157]Causes Célèbres, Tom. XIII. pp. 549, 550.

[158]Recueil d’Édits, etc., concernant l’Administration de la Justice et la Police des Colonies Françaises de l’Amérique (Paris, 1765), pp. 67, 89, 128.

[159]Causes Célèbres, Tom. XIII. p. 549.

[160]Vol. XX. col. 12-16, note.

[161]Un Nègre et une Négresse qui réclamoient leur liberté contre un Juif: Causes Célèbres (Paris, 1775-87), Tom. XXXVI. pp. 49-110.

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