61, p.
7.
[32] Suppose "an American vessel employed to take in negroes
at some point on this coast. There is no American man-of-war
here to obtain intelligence. What risk does she run of being
searched? But suppose that there is a man-of-war in port. What
is to secure the master of the merchantman against her [the
man-of-war's commander's knowing all about his [the
merchant-man's] intention, or suspecting it in time to be upon
him [the merchant-man] before he shall have run a league on
his way to Texas?" Consul Trist to Commander Spence: _House
Doc._, 27 Cong. 1 sess. No. 34, p. 41.]
[33] A typical set of instructions was on the following plan:
1. You are charged with the protection of legitimate commerce.
2. While the United States wishes to suppress the slave-trade,
she will not admit a Right of Search by foreign vessels. 3.
You are to arrest slavers. 4. You are to allow in no case an
exercise of the Right of Search or any great interruption of
legitimate commerce.--To Commodore Perry, March 30, 1843:
_House Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 104.
[34] _House Reports_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 283, pp.
765-8. Cf. Benton's speeches on the treaty of 1842.
[35] Report of Hotham to Admiralty, April 7, 1847:
_Parliamentary Papers_, 1847-8, Vol.
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