Benton's speeches on the treaty of 1842.

[35] Report of Hotham to Admiralty, April 7, 1847:
_Parliamentary Papers_, 1847-8, Vol. LXIV. No. 133, _Papers
Relative to the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the Coast of
Africa_, p. 13.

[36] _Opinions of Attorneys-General_, III. 512.

[37] _Tenth Annual Report of the Amer. and Foreign Anti-Slav.
Soc._, May 7, 1850, p. 149.

[38] _Opinions of Attorneys-General_, IV. 245.

[39] _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 150, pp. 108,
132.

[40] _House Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61, p. 18.

[41] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, pp. 286-90.

[42] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1839-40, pp. 913-4.

[43] Cf. United States census reports; and Olmsted, _Cotton
Kingdom_.

[44] _House Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess. p. 118.

[45] _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 31, 184.

[46] _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 14, 15, 86, 113.

[47] _Senate Journal_, 28 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 191, 227.

[48] _House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. III. pt. I. No. 5,
p. 7.

[49] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 152.

[50] _Ibid._, pp. 152-3.

[51] _Ibid._, p. 241.

[52] Cf. e.g. _House Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IV. pt. I. No.
148; 29 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 43; _House Exec. Doc._, 30
Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 1
sess. IV. No. 28; 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6; 33 Cong. 1 sess.
VIII. No. 47.

[53] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 218.

[54] _Ibid._, p. 221.

[55] Palmerston to Stevenson: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess.
V. No. 115, p. 5. In 1836 five such slavers were known to have
cleared; in 1837, eleven; in 1838, nineteen; and in 1839,
twenty-three: _Ibid._, pp. 220-1.

[56] _Parliamentary Papers_, 1839, Vol. XLIX., _Slave Trade_,
class A, Further Series, pp. 58-9; class B, Further Series, p.
110; class D, Further Series, p. 25. Trist pleaded ignorance
of the law: Trist to Forsyth, _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess.
V. No. 115.

[57] _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115.

[58] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 290.

[59] _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 121,
163-6.

[60] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV No. 66.

[61] Trist to Forsyth: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No.
115. "The business of supplying the United States with
Africans from t