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Resolution laid on the table. _House Journal_, 18 Cong. 2 sess. pp.
308-9; Gales and Seaton, _Register of Debates_, I. 739.
~1825, Dec. 6. President Adams's Message.~
"The objects of the West India Squadron have been, to carry into
execution the laws for the suppression of the African Slave Trade: for
the protection of our commerce against vessels of piratical
character.... These objects, during the present year, have been
accomplished more effectually than at any former period. The African
Slave Trade has long been excluded from the use of our flag; and if some
few citizens of our country have continued to set the laws of the Union,
as well as those of nature and humanity, at defiance, by persevering in
that abominable traffic, it has been only by sheltering themselves under
the banners of other nations, less earnest for the total extinction of
the trade than ours." _House Journal_, 19 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 20, 96,
296-7, 305, 323, 329, 394-5, 399, 410, 414, 421, 451, 640.
~1826, Feb. 14. Congress (House): Proposition to Repeal Parts of Act of
1819.~
"Mr. Forsyth submitted the following resolutions, viz.:
1. "_Resolved_, That it is expedient to repeal so much of the act of the
3d March, 1819, entitled, 'An act in addition to the acts prohibiting
the slave trade,' as provides for the appointment of agents on the coast
of Africa.
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