[18] Quoted in Etheridge's speech: Congressional Globe, 34 Cong. 3 sess. Appen., p. 366.

[19] House Journal, 34 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 105–10; Congressional Globe, 34 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 123–6; Cluskey, Political Text-Book (14th ed.), p. 589.

[20] House Journal, 35 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 298–9. Cf. 26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., p. 45.

[21] Cf. Reports of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., especially the 26th, pp. 43–4.

[22] Ibid., p. 43. He referred especially to the Treaty of 1842.

[23] Ibid.; Congressional Globe, 35 Cong. 2 sess., Appen., pp. 248–50.

[24] 26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., p. 44.

[25] Ibid.; 27th Report, pp. 13–4.

[26] 26th Report, Ibid., p. 44.

[27] Quoted in Lalor, Cyclopædia, III. 733; Cairnes, The Slave Power (New York, 1862), p. 123, note; 27th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., p. 15.