[77] House Journal (repr. 1826), 8 Cong. 2 sess.  V. 171;
Mass.  Resolves, May, 1802, to March, 1806, Vol.  II.  A. 
(State House ed., p. 239).

 [78] House Journal (repr. 1826), 9 Cong. 1 sess.  V. 238.

 [79] Ibid., V. 266.

 [80] Senate Journal (repr. 1821), 9 Cong. 1 sess.  IV. 76,
      77, 79.

 [81] House Journal (repr. 1826), 8 Cong. 2 sess.  V. 171.

 [82] Annals of Cong., 9 Cong. 1 sess. p. 274.

 [83] Ibid., pp. 272-4, 323.

 [84] Ibid., pp. 346-52, 358-75, etc., to 520.

 [85] Ibid., pp. 374-5.

 [86] See House Bill No. 94.

 [87] Annals of Cong., 9 Cong. 1 sess. p. 466.

 [88] Annals of Cong., 9 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 519-20.

 [89] Ibid., pp. 21, 52, 75, etc., to 138, 485-515, 1228.  See
      House Bill No. 168.  Cf. Statutes at Large, II. 421-2.

 [90] A few months later, at the expiration of the period,
      trade was quietly reopened. Annals of Cong., 11 Cong. 1
      sess. pp. 443-6.

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Chapter VIII

THE PERIOD OF ATTEMPTED SUPPRESSION. 1807-1825.

  55.  The Act of 1807.
  56.  The First Question:  How shall illegally imported Africans be
        disposed of?
  57.  The Second Question:  How shall Violations be punished?
  58.  The Third Question:  How shall the Interstate Coastwise Slave-Trade
        be protected?
  59.  Legislative History of the Bill.
  60.  Enforcement of the Act.
  61.  Evidence of the Continuance of the Trade.
  62.  Apathy of the Federal Government.
  63.  Typical Cases.
  64.  The Supplementary Acts, 1818-1820.
  65.  Enforcement of the Supplementary Acts, 1818-1825.

55. The Act of 1807. The first great goal of anti-slavery effort in the United States had been, since the Revolution, the suppression of the slave-trade by national law.  It would hardly be too much to say that the Haytian revolution, in addition to its influence in the years from 1791 to 1806, was one of the main causes that rendered the accomplishment of this aim possible at the earliest constitutional moment.  To the great influence of the fears of the South was added the failure of the French designs on Louisiana, of which Toussaint L’Ouverture was the most probable cause.  The cession of Louisiana in 1803 challenged and aroused the North on the slavery question again; put the Carolina and Georgia slave-traders in the saddle, to the dismay of the Border States; and brought the whole slave-trade question vividly before the public conscience.  Another scarcely less potent influence was, naturally, the great anti-slavery movement in England, which after a mighty struggle of eighteen years was about to gain its first victory in the British Act of 1807.