10, 1818: "It is but
too notorious that numerous infractions of the law prohibiting
the importation of slaves into the United States have been
perpetrated with impunity upon our southern frontier." _Amer.
State Papers, Miscellaneous_, II. No. 441.
[86] Special message of Jan. 13, 1818: _House Journal_, 15
Cong. 1 sess. pp. 137-9.
[87] Collector McIntosh, of the District of Brunswick, Ga., to
the Secretary of the Treasury. _House Doc._, 16 Cong. 1 sess.
III. No. 42, pp. 8-9.
[88] _House Doc._, 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, pp. 6-7.
[89] _Ibid._, pp. 11-12.
[90] _Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous_, II. No. 529.
[91] _House Doc._, 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, p. 7.
[92] _Ibid._, p. 6.
[93] _House Reports_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 82.
[94] They were not general instructions, but were directed to
Commander Campbell. Cf. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No.
84, pp. 5-6.
[95] _Statutes at Large_, III. 471 ff.
[96] _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 2 sess. VI. No. 107, pp. 8-9.
[97] _Ibid._, IV. No. 84. Cf. Chew's letters in _House
Reports_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348.
[98] _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 12, pp. 22, 38; 15
Cong. 2 sess. VI. No. 100, p. 13; 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No.
42, p. 9, etc.; _House Reports_, 21 Cong.
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