red that he should ever
regret that the term "piracy" had been applied to the
slave-trade in our laws: Benton, _Abridgment of Debates_, XII.
718.

[9] Governor J.H. Hammond of South Carolina, in _Letters to
Clarkson_, No. 1, p. 2.

[10] In 1826 Forsyth of Georgia attempted to have a bill
passed abolishing the African agency, and providing that the
Africans imported be disposed of in some way that would entail
no expense on the public treasury: _Home Journal_, 19 Cong. 1
sess. p. 258. In 1828 a bill was reported to the House to
abolish the agency and make the Colonization Society the
agents, if they would agree to the terms. The bill was so
amended as merely to appropriate money for suppressing the
slave-trade: _Ibid._, 20 Cong. 1 sess., House Bill No. 190.

[11] _Ibid._, pp. 121, 135; 20 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 58-9, 84,
215.

[12] _Congressional Globe_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 328, 331-6.

[13] Cf. Mercer's bill, _House Journal_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. p.
512; also Strange's two bills, _Senate Journal_, 25 Cong. 3
sess. pp. 200, 313; 26 Cong. 1 sess., Senate Bill No. 123.

[14] _Senate Journal_, 25 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 297-8, 300.

[15] _Senate Doc_, 28 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 217, p. 19;
_Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6, pp. 3, 10,
etc.; 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47, pp. 5-6; 34 Cong. 1 sess.
XV. No. 99, p. 80; _House Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
117-8; cf. _Ibid._, 20 Cong. 1 sess. p. 650, etc.; 21 Cong. 2
sess. p. 194; 27 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 31, 184; _House Doc._, 29
Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 43, p. 11; _House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong.
1 sess. III. pt. 1, No. 5, pp. 7-8.

[16] _Senate Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess., Senate Bill No. 335;
_House Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 1138, 1228, 1257.

[17] _Statutes at Large_, III. 764.

[18] Cf. above, Chapter VIII. p. 125.

[19] Cf. _Report of the Secretary of the Navy_, 1827.

[20] _Ibid._

[21] _House Reports_, 24 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 223.

[22] This account is taken exclusively from government
documents: _Amer. State Papers, Naval_, III. Nos. 339, 340,
357, 429 E; IV. Nos. 457 R (1 and 2), 486 H, I, p. 161 and 519
R, 564 P, 585 P; _House Reports_, 19 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 65;
_House Doc._, 19 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 69; 21 Cong. 2 sess. I.
No. 2, pp. 42-3, 211-8; 22 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2,