, and Galveston, Texas; the contractors giving thirty
days' notice as to time and place of delivery": Quoted in
_26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 41-2.
[55] _Congressional Globe_, 35 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1362. Cf. the
speech of a delegate from Georgia to the Democratic Convention
at Charleston, 1860: "If any of you northern democrats will go
home with me to my plantation, I will show you some darkies
that I bought in Virginia, some in Delaware, some in Florida,
and I will also show you the pure African, the noblest Roman
of them all. I represent the African slave trade interest of
my section:" Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733.
[56] _Senate Misc. Doc._, 36 Cong. 1 sess. No. 8.
[57] _Senate Journal_, 34 Cong. 1-2 sess. pp. 396, 695-8;
_Senate Reports_, 34 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 195.
[58] _House Journal_, 31 Cong. 2 sess. p. 64. There was still
another attempt by Sandidge. Cf. _26th Report of the Amer.
Anti-Slav. Soc._, p. 44.
[59] _Senate Journal_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 274; _Congressional
Globe_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1245.
[60] Congressional Globe, 32 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1072.
[61] I.e., since 1846: _Statutes at Large_, XI. 90.
[62] _Ibid._, XI. 227.
[63] _Ibid._, XI. 404.
[64] _Ibid._, XII. 21.
[65] E.g., Clay's resolutions: _Congressional Globe_, 31 Cong.
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