218.
[54] _Ibid._, p. 221.
[55] Palmerston to Stevenson: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess.
V. No. 115, p. 5. In 1836 five such slavers were known to have
cleared; in 1837, eleven; in 1838, nineteen; and in 1839,
twenty-three: _Ibid._, pp. 220-1.
[56] _Parliamentary Papers_, 1839, Vol. XLIX., _Slave Trade_,
class A, Further Series, pp. 58-9; class B, Further Series, p.
110; class D, Further Series, p. 25. Trist pleaded ignorance
of the law: Trist to Forsyth, _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess.
V. No. 115.
[57] _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115.
[58] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 290.
[59] _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 121,
163-6.
[60] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV No. 66.
[61] Trist to Forsyth: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No.
115. "The business of supplying the United States with
Africans from this island is one that must necessarily exist,"
because "slaves are a hundred _per cent_, or more, higher in
the United States than in Cuba," and this profit "is a
temptation which it is not in human nature as modified by
American institutions to withstand": _Ibid._
[62] _Statutes at Large_, V. 674.
[63] Cf. above, p. 157, note 1.
[64] Buxton, _The African Slave Trade and its Remedy_, pp.
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