[20] Diplomatic Correspondence, Part I, p. 202. Nicolay and Hay. Complete Works, p. 357.
[21] "Mr. Bates was for compulsory deportation. The Negro would not," he said, "go voluntary." "He had great local attachment but no enterprise or persistency. The President objected unequivocally to compulsion. The emigration must be voluntary and without expense to themselves. Great Britain, Denmark and perhaps other powers would take them. I remarked there was no necessity for a treaty which had been suggested. Any person who desired to leave the country could do so now, whether white or black, and it was best to have it so—a voluntary system; the emigrant who chose to leave our shores could and would go where there were the best inducements." Diary of Gideon Wells, I, p. 152.
[22] Cf. Account by Charles K. Tuckerman, Magazine of American History, October, 1886.
[23] Joseph Henry said to Assistant Secretary of State, September 5, 1862: "I hope the government will not make any contracts in regard to the purchase of the Chiriqui District until it has been thoroughly examined by persons of known capacity and integrity. A critical examination of all that has been reported on the existence of valuable beds of coal in that region has failed to convince me of the fact." Chiriqui is described in report Number 148, House of Representatives, 37th Congress, Second Session, July 16, 1862, by John Evans, geologist.
[24] "There was an indisposition to press the subject of Negro Emigration to Chiriqui at the meeting of the Cabinet against the wishes and remonstrances of the states of Central America." Diary of Gideon Wells, I, p. 162.
[25] Manuscript Archives of the Department of the Interior.
[26] Nicolay and Hay, A History, VI, p. 361.
[27] Richardson, Message and Papers of the President, I, p. 167.
[28] Nicolay and Hay, A History, VI, p. 362.
[29] Complete records to substantiate this statement have not been discovered.