The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[867] Ibid.

[868] William Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, pp. 231, 232.

[869] House Journal, Fourth Congress, Second Session, p. 65; Annals of Congress, pp. 1741, 1767.

[870] House Journal, Sixth Congress, Second Session, p. 220; Annals of Congress, p. 1053; House Journal, Seventh Congress, First Session, p. 34; Annals of Congress, p. 317.

[871] House Journal, Seventh Congress, First Session, p. 125; Annals of Congress, pp. 422, 423.

[872] The vote stood 46 to 43.

[873] House Journal, Seventh Congress, First Session, pp. 125, 128; Annals of Congress, pp. 423, 425.

[874] W. E. B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the American Slave Trade, pp. 105-109.

[875] House Journal, Fifteenth Congress, First Session, pp. 50, 86, 182, 186, 189, pp. 193, 198; Annals of Congress, pp. 446, 447, 513, 829-831, 838, 840, 1339, 1393. Senate Journal, Fifteenth Congress, First Session, pp. 128, 135, 174, 202, 227, 228, 233; House Journal, p. 328; Annals of Congress, pp. 165, 210, 259, 262, 1339, 1716; T. H. Benton, Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, Vol. VI, pp. 35, 36, 37, 110; M. G. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, pp. 21-23; Lalor's Cyclopædia, Vol. II, pp. 315, 316; Schouler, History of the United States, Vol. III, p. 144.

[876] McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, p. 23.