This act was in reality
a continuation of the piracy Act of 1819, and was only
temporary. The provision was, however, continued by several
acts, and finally made perpetual by the Act of Jan. 30, 1823:
_Statutes at Large_, III. 510-4, 721. On March 3, 1823, it was
slightly amended so as to give district courts jurisdiction.

[124] Attorney-General Wirt advised him, October, 1819, that
no part of the appropriation could be used to purchase land in
Africa or tools for the Negroes, or as salary for the agent:
_Opinions of Attorneys-General_, I. 314-7. Monroe laid the
case before Congress in a special message Dec. 20, 1819
(_House Journal_, 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 57); but no action was
taken there.

[125] Cf. Kendall's Report, August, 1830: _Senate Doc._, 21
Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 211-8; also see below, Chapter X.

[126] Speech in the House of Representatives, Feb. 15, 1819,
p. 18; published in Boston, 1849.

[127] Jay, _Inquiry into American Colonization_ (1838), p. 59,
note.

[128] Quoted in Friends' _Facts and Observations on the Slave
Trade_ (ed. 1841), pp. 7-8.

[129] _Annals of Cong._, 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 270-1.

[130] _Ibid._, p. 698.

[131] _Ibid._, p. 1207.

[132] _Annals of Cong._, 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1433.

[133] Referring particularly to the case of the slaver
"Plattsburg." Cf. _House Reports_, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No.
92, p. 10.

[134] _House Reports_, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, p. 2. The
President had in his message spoken in exhilarating tones of
the success of the government in suppressing the trade. The
House Committee appointed in pursuance of this passage made
the above report. Their conclusions are confirmed by British
reports: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1822, Vol. XXII., _Slave
Trade_, Further Papers, III. p. 44. So, too, in 1823, Ashmun,
the African agent, reports that thousands of slaves are being
abducted.

[135] Ayres to the Secretary of the Navy, Feb. 24, 1823;
reprinted in _Friends' View of the African Slave-Trade_
(1824), p. 31.

[136] _House Reports_, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, pp. 5-6.
The slavers were the "Ramirez," "Endymion," "Esperanza,"
"Plattsburg," "Science," "Alexander," "Eugene," "Mathilde,"
"Daphne," "Eliza," and "La Pensee." In these 573 Africans were
taken. The naval officers w