[78] Dec. 4, 1852: House Exec. Doc., 32 Cong. 2 sess. I. pt. 2, No. 1, p. 293.
[79] Ibid., 34 Cong. 1 sess. I. pt. 3, No. 1, p. 5.
[80] Ibid., 34 Cong. 3 sess. I. pt. 2, No. 1, p. 407.
[81] Commander Burgess to Commodore Wise, Whydah, Aug. 12, 1857: Parliamentary Papers, 1857–8, vol. LXI. Slave Trade, Class A, p. 136.
[82] House Exec. Doc., 35 Cong. 1 sess. II. pt. 3, No. 2, p. 576.
[83] Ibid., 35 Cong. 2 sess. II. pt. 1, No. 2, pp. 14–15, 31–33.
[84] Senate Exec. Doc., 36 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, p. 24. The Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1859, contains this ambiguous passage: "What the effect of breaking up the trade will be upon the United States or Cuba it is not necessary to inquire; certainly, under the laws of Congress and our treaty obligations, it is the duty of the executive government to see that our citizens shall not be engaged in it": Ibid., 36 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 2, pp. 1138–9.
[85] Senate Exec. Doc., 36 Cong. 2 sess. III. pt. 1, No. 1, pp. 8–9.
[86] Statutes at Large, XII. 40.
[87] Confederate States of America Statutes at Large, 1861, p. 15, Constitution, Art. 1, sect. 9, §§ 1, 2.