[53] Foote, Africa and the American Flag, p. 218.

 [54] Ibid., p. 221.

 [55] Palmerston to Stevenson:  House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. 
      V. No. 115, p. 5.  In 1836 five such slavers were known to have
      cleared; in 1837, eleven; in 1838, nineteen; and in 1839,
      twenty-three:  Ibid., pp. 220-1.

 [56] Parliamentary Papers, 1839, Vol.  XLIX., Slave Trade,
      class A, Further Series, pp. 58-9; class B, Further Series, p.
      110; class D, Further Series, p. 25.  Trist pleaded ignorance
      of the law:  Trist to Forsyth, House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. 
      V. No. 115.

 [57] House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No. 115.

 [58] Foote, Africa and the American Flag, p. 290.

 [59] House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No. 115, pp. 121,
      163-6.

 [60] Senate Exec.  Doc., 31 Cong. 1 sess.  XIV No. 66.

 [61] Trist to Forsyth:  House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No.
      115.  “The business of supplying the United States with
      Africans from this island is one that must necessarily exist,”
      because “slaves are a hundred per cent, or more, higher in
      the United States than in Cuba,” and this profit “is a
      temptation which it is not in human nature as modified by
      American institutions to withstand”:  Ibid.

 [62] Statutes at Large, V. 674.

 [63] Cf. above, p. 157, note 1.

 [64] Buxton, The African Slave Trade and its Remedy, pp.
      44-5.  Cf. 2d Report of the London African Soc., p. 22.

 [65] I.e., Bay Island in the Gulf of Mexico, near the coast of
      Honduras.

 [66] Revelations of a Slave Smuggler, p. 98.

 [67] Mr. H. Moulton in Slavery as it is, p. 140; cited in
      Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade (Friends’ ed.
      1841), p. 8.

 [68] In a memorial to Congress, 1840:  House Doc., 26 Cong. 1
      sess.  VI.  No. 211.

 [69] British and Foreign State Papers, 1845-6, pp. 883, 968,
      989-90.  The governor wrote in reply:  “The United States, if
      properly served by their law officers in the Floridas, will
      not experience any difficulty in obtaining the requisite
      knowledge of these illegal transactions, which, I have reason
      to believe, were the subject of common notoriety in the
      neighbourhood where they occurred, and of boast on the part of
      those concerned in them”:  British and Foreign State Papers,
      1845-6, p. 990.

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Chapter XI

THE FINAL CRISIS. 1850-1870.