[78]
On the outbreak of the Civil War, the Lincoln administration, through
Secretary Seward, immediately expressed a willingness to do all in its
power to suppress the slave-trade.[79] Accordingly, June 7, 1862, a
treaty was signed with Great Britain granting a mutual limited Right of
Search, and establishing mixed courts for the trial of offenders at the
Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, and New York.[80] The efforts of a
half-century of diplomacy were finally crowned; Seward wrote to Adams,
"Had such a treaty been made in 1808, there would now have been no
sedition here."[81]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Cf. Augustine Cochin, in Lalor, _Cyclopedia_, III. 723.
[2] By a law of Aug. 11, 1792, the encouragement formerly
given to the trade was stopped. Cf. _Choix de rapports,
opinions et discours prononces a la tribune nationale depuis
1789_ (Paris, 1821), XIV. 425; quoted in Cochin, _The Results
of Emancipation_ (Booth's translation, 1863), pp. 33, 35-8.
[3] Cochin, _The Results of Emancipation_ (Booth's
translation, 1863), pp. 42-7.
[4] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1815-6, p. 196.
[5] _Ibid._, pp. 195-9, 292-3; 1816-7, p. 755. It was
eventually confirmed by royal ordinance, and the law of April
15, 1818.
[6] _Statute 28 George III._, ch. 54. Cf. _Statute 29 George
III.
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