[448] Leger, "Recueil des traités et Conventions de la Republique d'Haiti," 23.
[449] Congress. Globe, 37th Congress, 2d Session, p. 1775. Speeches of Chas. Sumner, published variously, Washington, April 23, 1862, p. 6. Cf. "Contre la Reconnoissance de la Republique Haitienne (1825)" par M. Coustelin. La Norman père Librairie, Paris.
[450] Cf. Kennedy's "Colonization Report."
[451] McPherson, "History of Liberia," Johns Hopkins University Studies, 9th Series, X, p. 34.
[452] Ibid., p. 39.
[453] Ibid., p. 38. "But the delicacy with which the dissension on the slavery question made it necessary to handle every subject remotely bearing on that bone of contention, prevented him (Roberts) from obtaining even the formal recognition of Liberia."
[454] Congress. Globe, 37th Cong., 2d Session, p. 2500.
[455] "Treaties and Conventions concluded between the Republic of Liberia and Foreign Powers, 1848-1892," pp. 9, 17, 23, 30, published by the Department of State, Monrovia, Liberia.
[456] Congress. Globe, 37th Cong., 2d Session, p. 2501.
[457] This is quite evident from the fact that in 1860, out of 60 countries trading with the United States, Haiti stood 27th and Liberia 29th. (Statistical View of Commerce of United States, exhibiting the value of exports to and imports from foreign countries, and the number and tonnage of American and foreign vessels arriving from and departing to each foreign country during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860, Treasury Department, Register's Office, April 21, 1862.)