_Ibid._, pp. 226-8, 254.
~1806, Dec. 31. Great Britain: Rejected Treaty.~
"Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between His Britannic
Majesty and the United States of America."
"Art. XXIV. The high contracting parties engage to communicate to each
other, without delay, all such laws as have been or shall be hereafter
enacted by their respective Legislatures, as also all measures which
shall have been taken for the abolition or limitation of the African
slave trade; and they further agree to use their best endeavors to
procure the co-operation of other Powers for the final and complete
abolition of a trade so repugnant to the principles of justice and
humanity." _Amer. State Papers, Foreign_, III. 147, 151.
~1807, March 25. [England: Slave-Trade Abolished.~
"An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade." _Statute 47 George III._,
1 sess. ch. 36.]
~1807, Jan. 7. Congress (House): Bidwell's Proposition.~
"Provided, that no person shall be sold as a slave by virtue of this
act." Offered as an amendment to Sec. 3 of House bill; defeated 60 to 61,
Speaker voting. A similar proposition was made Dec. 23, 1806. _House
Journal_ (repr. 1826), 9 Cong. 2 sess. V. 513-6. Cf. _Annals of Cong._,
9 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 199-203, 265-7.
~1807, Feb. 9. Congress (House): Section Seven of House Bill.~
Sec. 7 of the bill reported to the House by the committee provided that all
Negroes imported should be conveyed whither the President might direct
and there be indentured as apprentices, or employed in whatever way the
President might deem best for them and the country; provided that no
such Negroes should be indentured or employed except in some State in
which provision is now made for the gradual abolition of slavery.
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