[5]. More correctly, 301,056. Ibid.
[6]. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee, p. 32.
[7]. Ibid.
[8]. Thirty years before President Lincoln published his Emancipation Proclamation Great Britain abolished slavery throughout her colonies. Naturally this action was viewed in no friendly spirit by the slave interest in America, for it brought the free negro to the very door of the Southern States, and though it was regarded as a menace to the “peculiar institution,” it was not until a positive loss was sustained that any controversy arose with England. In October, 1841, the brig Creole, of Richmond, with a cargo of 135 slaves left Hampton Roads for New Orleans. The negroes, under Madison Washington, killed one of the owners, took possession of the vessel and steered her into the port of Nassau. There those slaves not expressly charged with murder were set at liberty, and though the administration demanded their surrender they were not given up. The experience of the Creole was not singular, several cases of a similar nature being recorded. These facts showed the danger of navigating the Bahama channel after 1833, and at least one reason for preferring the overland route down the Tennessee valley was an expectation of avoiding such accidents.—(See Wilson’s Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, Vol. I. pp. 443–444; Lalor’s Cyclopedia of Political Science, etc., Vol. I. pp. 709–710.)
[9]. Brownlow’s Book, p. 52.
[10]. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee, pp. 80–81.
[11]. Brownlow’s Book, p. 67.
[12]. Art. I. sec. 10, Constitution of the United States.
[13]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., p. 5.
[14]. Misc. Doc. No. 55, H. of R., 1 Sess. 39th Cong., p. 5.