FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  See Atlantic Monthly, May Number.]

[Footnote 2:  “Clearly a fictitious appellation; for, if we admit the latter of these names to be in a manner English, what is Leigh?  Christian nomenclature knows no such.”]

[Footnote 3:  “It is clearly of transatlantic origin.”]

[Footnote 4: 

    “’Imperfectus adhuc infans genetricis ab alvo
    Eripitur, patrioque tener (si credere dignum)
    Insuitur femori ... 
    Tutaque bis geniti sunt incunabula Bacchi.’

Metamorph.  Lib. 3.”]

[Footnote 5:  It was Philip II. who gave to the Havana a coat of arms, in which was a golden key, to signify that it was the key of the Indies.  The house being lost, the key has, oddly enough, become more valuable than ever to Spain.]

[Footnote 6:  The “Annual Register” states that but 2,500 of the conquerors were fit for duty when the Havana surrendered.  The Boston “Gazette” says 3,000, and that the arrival of reinforcements was critical.  Even disease could not break down armies in those days.  The Spaniards had 6,000 sick.]

[Footnote 7:  The writer is known to the publishers of the “Atlantic Monthly”:  he is one whose word is not and cannot be called in question; and he pledges his word that the above is exact and proven fact.  Horace Mann, years ago, made public some similar cases.]

[Footnote 8:  Constitutional History of England, Vol.  II. p. 340.]

[Footnote 9:  Carlyle’s Life of Cromwell, Part IX.  Vol.  II. p. 168.]

[Footnote 10:  Ludlow’s Memoirs, p. 559.]

[Footnote 11:  Ibid. p. 580.]

[Footnote 12:  Ibid. p. 582.]

[Footnote 13:  Kent’s Commentaries, Vol.  I. p. 292, note b.]

[Footnote 14:  Elliott’s Debates, Vol.  III, p. 22.]

[Footnote 15:  Elliott’s Debates, Vol.  III. p. 44.]

[Footnote 16:  Ibid. p. 29.]

[Footnote 17:  Rushworth’s Historical Collections, Vol.  I. p. 609.]

[Footnote 18:  See Cushing, Parliamentary Law, p. 284.]

[Footnote 19:  Phillimore’s International Law, Vol.  I. p. 147.]

[Footnote 20:  Burke’s Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs.]

[Footnote 21:  Macaulay’s History of England, Vol.  II. p. 623.]

[Footnote 22:  Macaulay’s History of England, Vol.  II. p. 624.]

[Footnote 23:  John Adams’s Works, Vol.  II. p. 490.]

[Footnote 24:  Ibid.  Vol.  III. pp. 17, 19, 45, 46.]

[Footnote 25:  Webster’s Works, Vol.  VI. pp. 225, 226, 227, 228, 231.]

[Footnote 26:  The Gorgias of Plato.]

[Footnote 27:  American Insurance Company v. Carter, 1 Peters, p. 542.]

[Footnote 28:  Democracy in America, Vol.  II. ch. 25, p. 343.]