Arkansas, 4 " Florida, 3 "
South Carolina, 4 " South Carolina, 4 "
Louisiana, 6 " Total 19
Texas, 4 "
Georgia, 10 " Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and
Mississippi, 7 " North Carolina did not vote; they either
Total 40 withdrew or were not represented.
[13] Quoted in _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p.
38. The official organ was the _True Southron_.
[14] Quoted in _24th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p.
54.
[15] Quoted in _26th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 43.
[16] _27th Report_, _Ibid._, pp. 19-20.
[17] Letter of W.C. Preston, in the _National Intelligencer_,
April 3, 1863. Also published in the pamphlet, _The African
Slave Trade: The Secret Purpose_, etc., p. 26.
[18] Quoted in Etheridge's speech: _Congressional Globe_, 34
Cong. 3 sess. Appen., p. 366.
[19] _House Journal_, 34 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 105-10;
_Congressional Globe_, 34 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 123-6; Cluskey,
_Political Text-Book_ (14th ed.), p. 589.
[20] _House Journal_, 35 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 298-9. Cf. _26th
Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 45.
[21] Cf. _Reports of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, especially
the 26th, pp. 43-4.
[22] _Ibid._, p. 43. He referred especially to the Treaty of
1842.
[23] _Ibid._; _Congressional Globe_, 35 Cong. 2 sess., Appen.,
pp. 248-50.
[24] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 44.
[25] _Ibid._; _27th Report_, pp. 13-4.
[26] _26th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 44.
[27] Quoted in Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733; Cairnes, _The
Slave Power_ (New York, 1862), p. 123, note; _27th Report of
the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 15.
[28] Quoted in Cairnes, _The Slave Power_, p. 123, note; _27th
Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 19.
[29] _27th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 16; quoted from the Mobile
_Register_.
[30] Edition of 1859, pp. 63-4.
[31] _De Bow's Review_, XXVII. 121, 231-5.
[32] _Report of the Special Committee_, etc. (1857), pp. 24-5.
[33] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 40. The
vote was 47 to 46.
[34] _House Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 7, pp.
632-6. For the State law, cf. above, Chapter II. This refusal
of Cobb's was sharply criticised by many Southern papers. Cf.
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