1 Cong. 1
sess. III. No. 348, pp. 62-3, etc.; 24 Cong. 1 sess. I. No.
209; _Amer. State Papers, Naval_, II. No. 308.

[108] The first method, represented by the Act of 1818, was
favored by the South, the Senate, and the Democrats; the
second method, represented by the Act of 1819, by the North,
the House, and by the as yet undeveloped but growing Whig
party.

[109] Committees on the slave-trade were appointed by the
House in 1810 and 1813; the committee of 1813 recommended a
revision of the laws, but nothing was done: _Annals of Cong._,
11 Cong. 3 sess. p. 387; 12 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1074, 1090. The
presidential message of 1816 led to committees on the trade in
both Houses. The committee of the House of Representatives
reported a joint resolution on abolishing the traffic and
colonizing the Negroes, also looking toward international
action. This never came to a vote: _Senate Journal_, 14 Cong.
2 sess. pp. 46, 179, 180; _House Journal_, 14 Cong. 2 sess.
pp. 25, 27, 380; _House Doc_, 14 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 77.
Finally, the presidential message of 1817 (_House Journal_, 15
Cong. 1 sess. p. 11), announcing the issuance of orders to
suppress the Amelia Island establishment, led to two other
committees in both Houses. The House committee under Middleton
made a report with a bill (_Amer. State Papers,
Miscellaneous_, II. No. 441), and the Senate committee also
reported a bill.

[110] The Senate debates were entirely unreported, and the
report of the House debates is very meagre. For the
proceedings, see _Senate Journal_, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 243,
304, 315, 333, 338, 340, 348, 377, 386, 388, 391, 403, 406;
_House Journal_, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 19, 20, 29, 51, 92, 131,
362, 410, 450, 452, 456, 468, 479, 484, 492, 505.

[111] Simkins of South Carolina, Edwards of North Carolina,
and Pindall: _Annals of Cong._, 15 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1740.

[112] Hugh Nelson of Virginia: _Annals of Cong._, 15 Cong. 1
sess. p. 1740.

[113] _Statutes at Large_, III. 450. By this act the first six
sections of the Act of 1807 were repealed.

[114] Or, more accurately speaking, every one realized, in
view of the increased activity of the trade, that it would be
a failure.

[115] Nov. 18, 1818, the part of the presidential message
referring to