[61] Trist to Forsyth: House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115. "The business of supplying the United States with Africans from this island is one that must necessarily exist," because "slaves are a hundred per cent, or more, higher in the United States than in Cuba," and this profit "is a temptation which it is not in human nature as modified by American institutions to withstand": Ibid.
[62] Statutes at Large, V. 674.
[63] Cf. above, p. 157, note 1.
[64] Buxton, The African Slave Trade and its Remedy, pp. 44–5. Cf. 2d Report of the London African Soc., p. 22.
[65] I.e., Bay Island in the Gulf of Mexico, near the coast of Honduras.
[66] Revelations of a Slave Smuggler, p. 98.
[67] Mr. H. Moulton in Slavery as it is, p. 140; cited in Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade (Friends' ed. 1841), p. 8.
[68] In a memorial to Congress, 1840: House Doc., 26 Cong. 1 sess. VI. No. 211.
[69] British and Foreign State Papers, 1845–6, pp. 883, 968, 989–90. The governor wrote in reply: "The United States, if properly served by their law officers in the Floridas, will not experience any difficulty in obtaining the requisite knowledge of these illegal transactions, which, I have reason to believe, were the subject of common notoriety in the neighbourhood where they occurred, and of boast on the part of those concerned in them": British and Foreign State Papers, 1845–6, p. 990.