_, 36
Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 2, pp. 1138-9.
[85] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 2 sess. III. pt. 1, No. 1,
pp. 8-9.
[86] _Statutes at Large_, XII. 40.
[87] _Confederate States of America Statutes at Large_, 1861,
p. 15, Constitution, Art. 1, sect. 9, Sec.Sec. 1, 2.
[88] From an intercepted circular despatch from J.P. Benjamin,
"Secretary of State," addressed in this particular instance to
Hon. L.Q.C. Lamar, "Commissioner, etc., St. Petersburg,
Russia," and dated Richmond, Jan. 15, 1863; published in the
_National Intelligencer_, March 31, 1863; cf. also the issues
of Feb. 19, 1861, April 2, 3, 25, 1863; also published in the
pamphlet, _The African Slave-Trade: The Secret Purpose_, etc.
The editors vouch for its authenticity, and state it to be in
Benjamin's own handwriting.
[89] L.W. Spratt of South Carolina, in the _Southern Literary
Messenger_, June, 1861, XXXII. 414, 420. Cf. also the
Charleston _Mercury_, Feb. 13, 1861, and the _National
Intelligencer_, Feb. 19, 1861.
[90] Captain Gordon of the slaver "Erie;" condemned in the
U.S. District Court for Southern New York in 1862. Cf. _Senate
Exec. Doc._, 37 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, p. 13.
[91] _Ibid._, pp. 453-4.
[92] _Statutes at Large_, XII. 132, 219, 639; XIII.
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