44-5. Cf. _2d Report of the London African Soc._, p. 22.
[65] I.e., Bay Island in the Gulf of Mexico, near the coast of
Honduras.
[66] _Revelations of a Slave Smuggler_, p. 98.
[67] Mr. H. Moulton in _Slavery as it is_, p. 140; cited in
_Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade_ (Friends' ed.
1841), p. 8.
[68] In a memorial to Congress, 1840: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 1
sess. VI. No. 211.
[69] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1845-6, pp. 883, 968,
989-90. The governor wrote in reply: "The United States, if
properly served by their law officers in the Floridas, will
not experience any difficulty in obtaining the requisite
knowledge of these illegal transactions, which, I have reason
to believe, were the subject of common notoriety in the
neighbourhood where they occurred, and of boast on the part of
those concerned in them": _British and Foreign State Papers_,
1845-6, p. 990.
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_Chapter XI_
THE FINAL CRISIS. 1850-1870.
80. The Movement against the Slave-Trade Laws.
81. Commercial Conventions of 1855-56.
82. Commercial Conventions of 1857-58.
83. Commercial Convention of 1859.
84. Public Opinion in the South.
85. The Question in Congress.
86. Southern Policy in 1860.
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