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vote was 47 to 46.
[34] _House Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 7, pp.
632-6. For the State law, cf. above, Chapter II. This refusal
of Cobb's was sharply criticised by many Southern papers. Cf.
_26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 39.
[35] New York _Independent_, March 11 and April 1, 1858.
[36] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 41.
[37] Gregory to the Secretary of the Navy, June 8, 1850:
_Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66, p. 2. Cf.
_Ibid._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6.
[38] Cumming to Commodore Fanshawe, Feb. 22, 1850: _Senate
Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66, p. 8.
[39] New York _Journal of Commerce_, 1857; quoted in _24th
Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 56.
[40] "The Slave-Trade in New York," in the _Continental
Monthly_, January, 1862, p. 87.
[41] New York _Evening Post_; quoted in Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_,
III. 733.
[42] Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733; quoted from a New York
paper.
[43] _Friends' Appeal on behalf of the Coloured Races_ (1858),
Appendix, p. 41; quoted from the _Journal of Commerce_.
[44] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 53-4;
quoted from the African correspondent of the Boston _Journal_.
From April, 1857, to May, 1858, twenty-one of twenty-two
slavers which were seized by British cruisers proved to be
American, from New York, Boston, and New Orleans.
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