[48] House Exec. Doc., 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 89. Cf. 26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., pp. 45–9.
[49] Quoted in 26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., p. 46.
[50] For all the above cases, cf. Ibid., p. 49.
[51] Quoted in 27th Report, Ibid., p. 20. Cf. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1859; Senate Exec. Doc., 36 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 2.
[52] 27th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., p. 21.
[53] Quoted in Ibid.
[54] Issue of July 22, 1860; quoted in Drake, Revelations of a Slave Smuggler, Introd., p. vi. The advertisement referred to was addressed to the "Ship-owners and Masters of our Mercantile Marine," and appeared in the Enterprise (Miss.) Weekly News, April 14, 1859. William S. Price and seventeen others state that they will "pay three hundred dollars per head for one thousand native Africans, between the ages of fourteen and twenty years, (of sexes equal,) likely, sound, and healthy, to be delivered within twelve months from this date, at some point accessible by land, between Pensacola, Fla., and Galveston, Texas; the contractors giving thirty days' notice as to time and place of delivery": Quoted in 26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc., pp. 41–2.
[55] Congressional Globe, 35 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1362. Cf. the speech of a delegate from Georgia to the Democratic Convention at Charleston, 1860: "If any of you northern democrats will go home with me to my plantation, I will show you some darkies that I bought in Virginia, some in Delaware, some in Florida, and I will also show you the pure African, the noblest Roman of them all. I represent the African slave trade interest of my section:" Lalor, Cyclopædia, III. 733.
[56] Senate Misc. Doc., 36 Cong. 1 sess. No. 8.
[57] Senate Journal, 34 Cong. 1–2 sess. pp. 396, 695–8; Senate Reports, 34 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 195.