Book I

. ch. 4.

[157] Boswell, Life of Johnson, April 6, 1772, ed. Croker (London, 1835,) Vol. III. p. 212.

[158] Anecdotes of Painting in England: _Hogarth_, p. 723.

[159] Here was the prison of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, after his defeat and surrender at Sedan, September 1, 1870.

[160] This was the special thunder of Mr. McDuffie in the debates on the Tariff during the administration of General Jackson.

[161] “MR. MANN. … I have seen the number of _actual slaveholders_ variously estimated; but the highest estimate I have ever seen is three hundred thousand.…

“MR. GAYLE, of Alabama, interrupted, and said: If the gentleman from Massachusetts has been informed that the number of slaveholders is only three hundred thousand, then I will tell him his information is utterly false.

“MR. MANN. Will the gentleman tell me how many there are?

“MR. GAYLE. Ten times as many.”

_Cong. Globe_, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., App., p. 835, June 30, 1848.

[162] Distributed according to the following table:--

Holders of a single slave 68,820 ” ” 1 and under 5 105,683 ” ” 5 ” ” 10 80,765 ” ” 10 ” ” 20 54,595 ” ” 20 ” ” 50 29,733 ” ” 50 ” ” 100 6,196 ” ” 100 ” ” 200 1,479 ” ” 200 ” ” 300 187 ” ” 300 ” ” 500 56 ” ” 500 ” ” 1000 9 ” ” 1000 and over 2 -------- Total 347,525

DE BOW’S _Compendium of the Seventh Census_, p. 95.

[163] Erasmus, Adagia, Chil. I. Centur. IV. Prov. 79.

[164] Pope, Essay on Criticism, 580, 581.

[165] The Earl of Elgin and Sir Charles Grey.

[166] “The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”--_Notes on Virginia_, Query XIX.: Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 406.

[167] Letter to the Whig County Committee of the County of Essex, November 5, 1838: In Memoriam J. W. B., pp. 9, 10.

[168] Hon. Charles Allen.

[169] Drayton, Poly-Olbion, Song XIII. Warwickshire, the middle county of England, is the shire referred to.

[170] Iliad, tr. Pope,