e to judge the facts without appeal, and upon
condemnation by them, the culprits were to be punished according to the
laws of their respective countries. The area in which this Right of
Search could be exercised was somewhat enlarged by an additional article
to the treaty, signed in 1863. In 1870 the mixed courts were abolished,
but the main part of the treaty was left in force. The Act of July 17,
1862, enabled the President to contract with foreign governments for the
apprenticing of recaptured Africans in the West Indies,[96] and in 1864
the coastwise slave-trade was forever prohibited.[97] By these measures
the trade was soon checked, and before the end of the war entirely
suppressed.[98] The vigilance of the government, however, was not
checked, and as late as 1866 a squadron of ten ships, with one hundred
and thirteen guns, patrolled the slave coast.[99] Finally, the
Thirteenth Amendment legally confirmed what the war had already
accomplished, and slavery and the slave-trade fell at one blow.[100]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1854-5, p. 1156.

[2] Cluskey, _Political Text-Book_ (14th ed.), p. 585.

[3] _De Bow's Review_, XXII. 223; quoted from Andrew Hunter of
Virginia.

[4] _Ibid._, XVIII. 628.

[5] _Ibid._, XXII. 91, 102, 217, 221-2.

[6] From a pamphlet entitled "A New Southern Policy, or the
Slave Trade as meaning Union and Conservatism;" quoted in
Etheridge's speech, Feb. 21, 1857: _Congressional Globe_, 34
Cong. 3 sess., Appendix, p. 366.

[7] _De Bow's Review_, XXIII. 298-320. A motion to table the
motion on the 8th article was supported only by Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, and Maryland. Those voting for
Sneed's motion were Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and
Tennessee. The appointment of a slave-trade committee was at
first defeated by a vote of 48 to 44. Finally a similar motion
was passed, 52 to 40.

[8] _De Bow's Review_, XXIV. 473-491, 579-605. The Louisiana
delegation alone did not vote for the last resolution, the
vote of her delegation being evenly divided.

[9] _De Bow's Review_, XXVII. 94-235.

[10] H.S. Foote, in _Bench and Bar of the South and
Southwest_, p. 69.

[11] _De Bow's Review_, XXVII. 115.

[12] _Ibid._, p. 99. The vote was:--

_Yea._ _Nay._
Alabama, 5 votes. Tennessee, 12 votes.