Note 90 — WAR POWERS OF CONGRESS: CONFISCATION AND LIBERATION.

Quoting it in reply to “the authority that has been rung in our ears by the Senator of Massachusetts,” Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, said: “This was the utterance of Mr. Adams, before he was fired with that fanatical zeal, before he had that disease of negrophobia, that for a time dethroned his mighty intellect on that subject.”—Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., July 15, 1862, p. 3349.