[97] By these measures
the trade was soon checked, and before the end of the war entirely
suppressed.[98] The vigilance of the government, however, was not
checked, and as late as 1866 a squadron of ten ships, with one hundred
and thirteen guns, patrolled the slave coast.[99] Finally, the
Thirteenth Amendment legally confirmed what the war had already
accomplished, and slavery and the slave-trade fell at one blow.[100]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1854-5, p. 1156.
[2] Cluskey, _Political Text-Book_ (14th ed.), p. 585.
[3] _De Bow's Review_, XXII. 223; quoted from Andrew Hunter of
Virginia.
[4] _Ibid._, XVIII. 628.
[5] _Ibid._, XXII. 91, 102, 217, 221-2.
[6] From a pamphlet entitled "A New Southern Policy, or the
Slave Trade as meaning Union and Conservatism;" quoted in
Etheridge's speech, Feb. 21, 1857: _Congressional Globe_, 34
Cong. 3 sess., Appendix, p. 366.
[7] _De Bow's Review_, XXIII. 298-320. A motion to table the
motion on the 8th article was supported only by Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, and Maryland. Those voting for
Sneed's motion were Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and
Tennessee. The appointment of a slave-trade committee was at
first defeated by a vote of 48 to 44. Finally a similar motion
was passed, 52 to 40.
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