The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[877] Chapter II, pp. 21, 22.

[878] Annals of Congress, Sixteenth Congress, First Session, pp. 1469, 1587. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, p. 23. It will be remembered that according to the compromise Missouri was to be admitted into the Union as a slave state, while slavery was to be prohibited in all other territory gained from France north of 36 degrees 30 minutes. See Appendix A, p. 361.

[879] House Journal, Sixteenth Congress, First Session, p. 427.

[880] Senate Journal, Sixteenth Congress, First Session, pp. 319, 326; Annals of Congress, p. 618; House Journal, Seventeenth Congress, First Session, p. 143; Annals of Congress, pp. 553, 558, 710. Annals of Congress, Seventeenth Congress, First Session, pp. 1379, 1415, 1444; Benton, Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, Vol. VI, p. 296; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, pp. 23, 24.

[881] Niles' Weekly Register, Vol. XXXV, pp. 289-291; S. G. Howe, The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West, pp. 12-14; William Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, p. 264; M. G. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, p. 25.

[882] Chapter II, p. 37.

[883] Ibid., pp. 37, 38.

[884] William Birney, James G. Birney and His Times, p. 435.

[885] Chapter II, p. 27.

[886] James Monroe, Oberlin Thursday Lectures, Addresses, and Essays, 1897, p. 116. See Appendix B, pp. 367-377, for cases under the Slave laws.