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.
[134] _House Reports_, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, p. 2. The
President had in his message spoken in exhilarating tones of
the success of the government in suppressing the trade. The
House Committee appointed in pursuance of this passage made
the above report. Their conclusions are confirmed by British
reports: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1822, Vol. XXII., _Slave
Trade_, Further Papers, III. p. 44. So, too, in 1823, Ashmun,
the African agent, reports that thousands of slaves are being
abducted.
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