[54] Issue of July 22, 1860; quoted in Drake, Revelations of
      a Slave Smuggler, Introd., p. vi.  The advertisement referred
      to was addressed to the “Ship-owners and Masters of our
      Mercantile Marine,” and appeared in the Enterprise (Miss.)
      Weekly News, April 14, 1859.  William S. Price and seventeen
      others state that they will “pay three hundred dollars per
      head for one thousand native Africans, between the ages of
      fourteen and twenty years, (of sexes equal,) likely, sound,
      and healthy, to be delivered within twelve months from this
      date, at some point accessible by land, between Pensacola,
      Fla., and Galveston, Texas; the contractors giving thirty
      days’ notice as to time and place of delivery”:  Quoted in
      26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., pp. 41-2.

 [55] Congressional Globe, 35 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1362.  Cf. the
      speech of a delegate from Georgia to the Democratic Convention
      at Charleston, 1860:  “If any of you northern democrats will go
      home with me to my plantation, I will show you some darkies
      that I bought in Virginia, some in Delaware, some in Florida,
      and I will also show you the pure African, the noblest Roman
      of them all.  I represent the African slave trade interest of
      my section:”  Lalor, Cyclopaedia, III. 733.

 [56] Senate Misc.  Doc., 36 Cong. 1 sess.  No. 8.

 [57] Senate Journal, 34 Cong. 1-2 sess. pp. 396, 695-8;
      Senate Reports, 34 Cong. 1 sess.  I. No. 195.

 [58] House Journal, 31 Cong. 2 sess. p. 64.  There was still
      another attempt by Sandidge.  Cf. 26th Report of the Amer. 
      Anti-Slav.  Soc., p. 44.

 [59] Senate Journal, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 274; Congressional
      Globe, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1245.

 [60] Congressional Globe, 32 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1072.

 [61] I.e., since 1846:  Statutes at Large, XI. 90.

 [62] Ibid., XI. 227.

 [63] Ibid., XI. 404.

 [64] Ibid., XII. 21.

 [65] E.g., Clay’s resolutions:  Congressional Globe, 31 Cong.
      2 sess. pp. 304-9.  Clayton’s resolutions:  Senate Journal, 33
      Cong. 1 sess. p. 404; House Journal, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
      1093, 1332-3; Congressional Globe, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
      1591-3, 2139.  Seward’s bill:  Senate Journal, 33 Cong. 1
      sess. pp. 448, 451.

 [66] Mr. Blair of Missouri asked unanimous consent in
      Congress, Dec. 23, 1858, to a resolution instructing the
      Judiciary Committee to bring in such a bill; Houston of
      Alabama objected:  Congressional Globe, 35 Cong. 2 sess. p.
      198; 26th Report of the Amer.  Anti-slav.  Soc., p. 44.