" _Senate Journal_, 16 Cong.
2 sess. pp. 16-7.
~1821, Feb. 15. Congress (House): Meigs's Resolution.~
Mr. Meigs offered in modified form the resolutions submitted at the last
session:--
"Whereas slavery, in the United States, is an evil, acknowledged to be
of great and increasing magnitude, ... therefore,
"Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency
of devoting five hundred million acres of the public lands, next west of
the Mississippi, as a fund for the purpose of, in the
"_First place_; Employing a naval force, competent to the annihilation
of the slave trade," etc. Question to consider decided in the
affirmative, 63 to 50; laid on the table, 66 to 55. _House Journal_, 16
Cong. 2 sess. p. 238; _Annals of Cong._, 16 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1168-70.
~1821, Dec. 3. President Monroe's Message.~
"Like success has attended our efforts to suppress the slave trade.
Under the flag of the United States, and the sanction of their papers,
the trade may be considered as entirely suppressed; and, if any of our
citizens are engaged in it, under the flag and papers of other powers,
it is only from a respect to the rights of those powers, that these
offenders are not seized and brought home, to receive the punishment
which the laws inflict. If every other power should adopt the same
policy, and pursue the same vigorous means for carrying it into effect,
the trade could no longer exist.
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