215. A
bale weighed from 375 lbs. to 400 lbs.
[4] The prices cited are from Newmarch and Tooke, and refer to
the London market. The average price in 1855-60 was about
7_d._
[5] From United States census reports.
[6] Cf. United States census reports; and Olmsted, _The Cotton
Kingdom_.
[7] Cf. United States census reports; and Olmsted, _The Cotton
Kingdom_.
[8] As early as 1836 Calhoun declared that he should ever
regret that the term "piracy" had been applied to the
slave-trade in our laws: Benton, _Abridgment of Debates_, XII.
718.
[9] Governor J.H. Hammond of South Carolina, in _Letters to
Clarkson_, No. 1, p. 2.
[10] In 1826 Forsyth of Georgia attempted to have a bill
passed abolishing the African agency, and providing that the
Africans imported be disposed of in some way that would entail
no expense on the public treasury: _Home Journal_, 19 Cong. 1
sess. p. 258. In 1828 a bill was reported to the House to
abolish the agency and make the Colonization Society the
agents, if they would agree to the terms. The bill was so
amended as merely to appropriate money for suppressing the
slave-trade: _Ibid._, 20 Cong. 1 sess., House Bill No. 190.
[11] _Ibid._, pp. 121, 135; 20 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 58-9, 84,
215.
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