[124] Attorney-General Wirt advised him, October, 1819, that
      no part of the appropriation could be used to purchase land in
      Africa or tools for the Negroes, or as salary for the agent: 
      Opinions of Attorneys-General, I. 314-7.  Monroe laid the
      case before Congress in a special message Dec. 20, 1819
      (House Journal, 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 57); but no action was
      taken there.

[125] Cf.  Kendall’s Report, August, 1830:  Senate Doc., 21
      Cong. 2 sess.  I. No. 1, pp. 211-8; also see below, Chapter X.

[126] Speech in the House of Representatives, Feb. 15, 1819,
      p. 18; published in Boston, 1849.

[127] Jay, Inquiry into American Colonization (1838), p. 59,
      note.

[128] Quoted in Friends’ Facts and Observations on the Slave
      Trade (ed. 1841), pp. 7-8.

[129] Annals of Cong., 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 270-1.

[130] Ibid., p. 698.

[131] Ibid., p. 1207.

[132] Annals of Cong., 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1433.

[133] Referring particularly to the case of the slaver
      “Plattsburg.”  Cf. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No.
      92, p. 10.

[134] House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92, p. 2.  The
      President had in his message spoken in exhilarating tones of
      the success of the government in suppressing the trade.  The
      House Committee appointed in pursuance of this passage made
      the above report.  Their conclusions are confirmed by British
      reports:  Parliamentary Papers, 1822, Vol.  XXII., Slave
      Trade, Further Papers, III. p. 44.  So, too, in 1823, Ashmun,
      the African agent, reports that thousands of slaves are being
      abducted.

[135] Ayres to the Secretary of the Navy, Feb. 24, 1823;
      reprinted in Friends’ View of the African Slave-Trade
      (1824), p. 31.

[136] House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92, pp. 5-6. 
      The slavers were the “Ramirez,” “Endymion,” “Esperanza,”
      “Plattsburg,” “Science,” “Alexander,” “Eugene,” “Mathilde,”
      “Daphne,” “Eliza,” and “La Pensee.”  In these 573 Africans were
      taken.  The naval officers were greatly handicapped by the size
      of the ships, etc. (cf. Friends’ View, etc., pp. 33-41). 
      They nevertheless acted with great zeal.

[137] Parliamentary Papers, 1821, Vol.  XXIII., Slave
      Trade, Further Papers, A, p. 76.  The names and description of
      a dozen or more American slavers are given:  Ibid., pp.
      18-21.

[138] House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92, pp. 15-20.

[139] House Doc., 18 Cong. 1 sess.  VI.  No. 119, p. 13.