[38] Cumming to Commodore Fanshawe, Feb. 22, 1850: Senate Exec. Doc., 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66, p. 8.
[39] New York Journal of Commerce, 1857; quoted in 24th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., p. 56.
[40] "The Slave-Trade in New York," in the Continental Monthly, January, 1862, p. 87.
[41] New York Evening Post; quoted in Lalor, Cyclopædia, III. 733.
[42] Lalor, Cyclopædia, III. 733; quoted from a New York paper.
[43] Friends' Appeal on behalf of the Coloured Races (1858), Appendix, p. 41; quoted from the Journal of Commerce.
[44] 26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., pp. 53–4; quoted from the African correspondent of the Boston Journal. From April, 1857, to May, 1858, twenty-one of twenty-two slavers which were seized by British cruisers proved to be American, from New York, Boston, and New Orleans. Cf. 25th Report, Ibid., p. 122. De Bow estimated in 1856 that forty slavers cleared annually from Eastern harbors, clearing yearly $17,000,000: De Bow's Review, XXII. 430–1.
[45] Senate Exec. Doc., 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47, p. 13.
[46] House Exec. Doc., 34 Cong. 1 sess. XII. No. 105, p. 38.
[47] New York Herald, Aug. 5, 1860; quoted in Drake, Revelations of a Slave Smuggler, Introd., pp. vii.-viii.