er of
THE CONTINENTAL, a sentence on page 521, relating to the
Confiscation Law, was left incomplete. The whole sentence should have
been as follows: 'As to the _Confiscation_ Acts--it is enough to say
that the Constitution gives Congress power 'to declare the punishment of
treason';--_or if the constitutionality of the Confiscation law cannot
be concluded from the terms of that grant--about which there may be a
doubt--it is undoubtedly contained in the war powers vested in
Congress._'

I have here put in italics the clause omitted in that article, and hope
my readers will insert it in the proper place. The sentence, as thus
completed, contains all I cared then to say on the point--my object
being mainly to vindicate the justice and conformity to public law of
the policy of confiscation. 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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