coast.[99] Finally, the Thirteenth Amendment legally confirmed what the war had already accomplished, and slavery and the slave-trade fell at one blow.[100]
Footnotes
[1] British and Foreign State Papers, 1854–5, p. 1156.
[2] Cluskey, Political Text-Book (14th ed.), p. 585.
[3] De Bow's Review, XXII. 223; quoted from Andrew Hunter of Virginia.
[4] Ibid., XVIII. 628.
[5] Ibid., XXII. 91, 102, 217, 221–2.
[6] From a pamphlet entitled "A New Southern Policy, or the Slave Trade as meaning Union and Conservatism;" quoted in Etheridge's speech, Feb. 21, 1857: Congressional Globe, 34 Cong. 3 sess., Appendix, p. 366.
[7] De Bow's Review, XXIII. 298–320. A motion to table the motion on the 8th article was supported only by Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Maryland. Those voting for Sneed's motion were Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The appointment of a slave-trade committee was at first defeated by a vote of 48 to 44. Finally a similar motion was passed, 52 to 40.
[8] De Bow's Review, XXIV. 473–491, 579–605. The Louisiana delegation alone did not vote for the last resolution, the vote of her delegation being evenly divided.