Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 39.

[35] New York _Independent_, March 11 and April 1, 1858.

[36] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 41.

[37] Gregory to the Secretary of the Navy, June 8, 1850:
_Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66, p. 2. Cf.
_Ibid._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6.

[38] Cumming to Commodore Fanshawe, Feb. 22, 1850: _Senate
Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66, p. 8.

[39] New York _Journal of Commerce_, 1857; quoted in _24th
Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 56.

[40] "The Slave-Trade in New York," in the _Continental
Monthly_, January, 1862, p. 87.

[41] New York _Evening Post_; quoted in Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_,
III. 733.

[42] Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733; quoted from a New York
paper.

[43] _Friends' Appeal on behalf of the Coloured Races_ (1858),
Appendix, p. 41; quoted from the _Journal of Commerce_.

[44] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 53-4;
quoted from the African correspondent of the Boston _Journal_.
From April, 1857, to May, 1858, twenty-one of twenty-two
slavers which were seized by British cruisers proved to be
American, from New York, Boston, and New Orleans. Cf. _25th
Report_, _Ibid._, p. 122. De Bow estimated in 1856 that forty
slavers cleared annually from Eastern harbors, clearing yearly
$17,000,000: _De Bow's Review_, XXII. 430-1.

[45] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47, p.
13.

[46] _House Exec. Doc._, 34 Cong. 1 sess. XII. No. 105, p. 38.

[47] New York _Herald_, Aug. 5, 1860; quoted in Drake,
_Revelations of a Slave Smuggler_, Introd., pp. vii.-viii.

[48] _House Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 89. Cf.
_26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 45-9.

[49] Quoted in _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p.
46.

[50] For all the above cases, cf. _Ibid._, p. 49.

[51] Quoted in _27th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 20. Cf. _Report of
the Secretary of the Navy_, 1859; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 36
Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 2.

[52] _27th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 21.

[53] Quoted in _Ibid._

[54] Issue of July 22, 1860; quoted in Drake, _Revelations of
a Slave Smuggler_, Introd., p. vi. The advertisement referred
to was addressed to the "Ship-owners and Masters of our
Mercantile Marine," and appeared in the