[34] House Exec.  Doc., 36 Cong. 2 sess.  IV.  No. 7, pp.
      632-6.  For the State law, cf. above, Chapter II.  This refusal
      of Cobb’s was sharply criticised by many Southern papers.  Cf.
      26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 39.

 [35] New York Independent, March 11 and April 1, 1858.

 [36] 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 41.

 [37] Gregory to the Secretary of the Navy, June 8, 1850: 
      Senate Exec.  Doc., 31 Cong. 1 sess.  XIV.  No. 66, p. 2.  Cf.
      Ibid., 31 Cong. 2 sess.  II.  No. 6.

 [38] Cumming to Commodore Fanshawe, Feb. 22, 1850:  Senate
      Exec.  Doc., 31 Cong. 1 sess.  XIV.  No. 66, p. 8.

 [39] New York Journal of Commerce, 1857; quoted in 24th
      Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 56.

 [40] “The Slave-Trade in New York,” in the Continental
      Monthly, January, 1862, p. 87.

 [41] New York Evening Post; quoted in Lalor, Cyclopaedia,
      III. 733.

 [42] Lalor, Cyclopaedia, III. 733; quoted from a New York
      paper.

 [43] Friends’ Appeal on behalf of the Coloured Races (1858),
      Appendix, p. 41; quoted from the Journal of Commerce.

 [44] 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., pp. 53-4;
      quoted from the African correspondent of the Boston Journal. 
      From April, 1857, to May, 1858, twenty-one of twenty-two
      slavers which were seized by British cruisers proved to be
      American, from New York, Boston, and New Orleans.  Cf. 25th
      Report, Ibid., p. 122.  De Bow estimated in 1856 that forty
      slavers cleared annually from Eastern harbors, clearing yearly
      $17,000,000:  De Bow’s Review, XXII. 430-1.

 [45] Senate Exec.  Doc., 33 Cong. 1 sess.  VIII.  No. 47, p.
      13.

 [46] House Exec.  Doc., 34 Cong. 1 sess.  XII.  No. 105, p. 38.

 [47] New York Herald, Aug. 5, 1860; quoted in Drake,
      Revelations of a Slave Smuggler, Introd., pp. vii.-viii.

 [48] House Exec.  Doc., 35 Cong. 2 sess.  IX.  No. 89.  Cf.
      26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., pp. 45-9.

 [49] Quoted in 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p.
      46.

 [50] For all the above cases, cf. Ibid., p. 49.

 [51] Quoted in 27th Report, Ibid., p. 20.  Cf. Report of
      the Secretary of the Navy, 1859; Senate Exec.  Doc., 36
      Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 2.

 [52] 27th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 21.

 [53] Quoted in Ibid.