[290] Nathaniel Gordon, commander of the slave-ship Erie, executed at New York, February 21, 1862.
[291] Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Vol. II. § 1334.
[292] Annual Register, 1814, p. 418. Martens, Nouveau Recueil de Traités, Tom. II. p. 15.
[293] United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VIII. p. 223.
[294] Martens, Nouveau Recueil de Traités, Tom. II. p. 432.
[295] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. V. p. 93.
[296] Ibid., p. 141.
[297] Annals of Congress, 17th Cong. 2d Sess., 928, 1147, 1155.
[298] Annals of Congress, 17th Cong. 2d Sess., 1154.
[299] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. V. p. 320. See also p. 335.