[239] The Irish levee and rail-road laborers are driven by blows.
[240] English papers propose this for the West India negroes.
[241] Essays of Elia.
[242] Southern Literary Messenger, for January, 1835. Note to Blackstone's Commentaries..
[243] See Missionary reports, statistics; also, Prof. Christy's Ethiopia.—Editor.
[244] Journal of an officer employed in the expedition, under the command of Captain Owen, on the Western coast of Africa, 1822.
[245] The slaves of the "Wanderer" were returned to Africa against their wills.—Editor.
[246] In relation to the Missouri Controversy, J. Q. Adams said:—Editor.
"There is now every appearance that the slave question will be carried by the superior ability of the slavery party. For this much is certain, that if institutions are to be judged by their results in the composition of the councils of the Union, the slaveholders are much more ably represented than the simple freemen."—Life of J. Q. Adams, by Josiah Quincy, p. 98."
"Never, since human sentiment and human conduct were influenced by human speech, was there a theme for eloquence like the free side of this question, now before the Congress of the Union. By what fatality does it happen that all the most eloquent orators are on its slavish side?"—Ibid. p. 103.