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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 426 pages of information about The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America.

  [9] De Bow’s Review, XXVII. 94-235.

 [10] H.S.  Foote, in Bench and Bar of the South and
      Southwest
, p. 69.

 [11] De Bow’s Review, XXVII. 115.

 [12] Ibid., p. 99.  The vote was:—­

Yea.                Nay.
Alabama,         5 votes.   Tennessee,      12 votes. 
Arkansas,        4   "     Florida,         3   "
South Carolina,  4   "     South Carolina,  4   "
Louisiana,       6   "          Total      19
Texas,           4   "
Georgia,        10   "     Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and
Mississippi,     7   "     North Carolina did not vote; they either
Total  40         withdrew or were not represented.

 [13] Quoted in 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p.
      38.  The official organ was the True Southron.

 [14] Quoted in 24th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p.
      54.

 [15] Quoted in 26th Report, Ibid., p. 43.

 [16] 27th Report, Ibid., pp. 19-20.

 [17] Letter of W.C.  Preston, in the National Intelligencer,
      April 3, 1863.  Also published in the pamphlet, The African
      Slave Trade:  The Secret Purpose
, etc., p. 26.

 [18] Quoted in Etheridge’s speech:  Congressional Globe, 34
      Cong. 3 sess.  Appen., p. 366.

 [19] House Journal, 34 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 105-10;
      Congressional Globe, 34 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 123-6; Cluskey,
      Political Text-Book (14th ed.), p. 589.

 [20] House Journal, 35 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 298-9.  Cf. 26th
      Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc.
, p. 45.

 [21] Cf. Reports of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., especially
      the 26th, pp. 43-4.

 [22] Ibid., p. 43.  He referred especially to the Treaty of
      1842.

 [23] Ibid.; Congressional Globe, 35 Cong. 2 sess., Appen.,
      pp. 248-50.

 [24] 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 44.

 [25] Ibid.; 27th Report, pp. 13-4.

 [26] 26th Report, Ibid., p. 44.

 [27] Quoted in Lalor, Cyclopaedia, III. 733; Cairnes, The
      Slave Power
(New York, 1862), p. 123, note; 27th Report of
      the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc.
, p. 15.

 [28] Quoted in Cairnes, The Slave Power, p. 123, note; 27th
      Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc.
, p. 19.

 [29] 27th Report, Ibid., p. 16; quoted from the Mobile
      Register.

 [30] Edition of 1859, pp. 63-4.

 [31] De Bow’s Review, XXVII. 121, 231-5.

 [32] Report of the Special Committee, etc. (1857), pp. 24-5.

 [33] 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 40.  The
      vote was 47 to 46.

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