[124] Attorney-General Wirt advised him, October, 1819, that no part of the appropriation could be used to purchase land in Africa or tools for the Negroes, or as salary for the agent: Opinions of Attorneys-General, I. 314–7. Monroe laid the case before Congress in a special message Dec. 20, 1819 (House Journal, 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 57); but no action was taken there.
[125] Cf. Kendall's Report, August, 1830: Senate Doc., 21 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 211–8; also see below, Chapter X.
[126] Speech in the House of Representatives, Feb. 15, 1819, p. 18; published in Boston, 1849.
[127] Jay, Inquiry into American Colonization (1838), p. 59, note.
[128] Quoted in Friends' Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade (ed. 1841), pp. 7–8.
[129] Annals of Cong., 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 270–1.
[130] Ibid., p. 698.
[131] Ibid., p. 1207.
[132] Annals of Cong., 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1433.
[133] Referring particularly to the case of the slaver "Plattsburg." Cf. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, p. 10.