In the present article I have gone more at
length into the question of the constitutionality of the law of
Congress, and have come to the conclusions herein expressed.
[3] Our whole area is more than sixty times as large as England.
[4] One hundred years have elapsed since that treaty, and the London
_Times_ proclaims that England will not fight for Canada now.
[5] See Alison's History, chap. xxxvii, p. 269.
[6] Kinglake's Crimea Invasion, p. 250.
[7] Kinglake.
[8] See Kinglake's remarks on the design of Louis Napoleon in making St.
Arnaud commander-in-chief of the French army in the Crimean war, p. 321.
[9] Written in August, 1863.
[10] Pansclavism
[11] The following story, in substance, is to be found in Joinville's
Memoirs.
[12] There may be extreme cases, few and far between, when the evil
contained in laws may justify their overthrow by revolutionary
force--witness our own separation from Great Britain; but the doctrine
is one most unsafe when lightly broached, and we doubt not the
Constitution and laws of the United States offer a basis broad enough
for the legal as well as the most judicious mode of settlement under the
present difficulties.--ED. CON.
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