Enterprise (Miss.)
_Weekly News_, April 14, 1859. William S. Price and seventeen
others state that they will "pay three hundred dollars per
head for one thousand native Africans, between the ages of
fourteen and twenty years, (of sexes equal,) likely, sound,
and healthy, to be delivered within twelve months from this
date, at some point accessible by land, between Pensacola,
Fla., and Galveston, Texas; the contractors giving thirty
days' notice as to time and place of delivery": Quoted in
_26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 41-2.

[55] _Congressional Globe_, 35 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1362. Cf. the
speech of a delegate from Georgia to the Democratic Convention
at Charleston, 1860: "If any of you northern democrats will go
home with me to my plantation, I will show you some darkies
that I bought in Virginia, some in Delaware, some in Florida,
and I will also show you the pure African, the noblest Roman
of them all. I represent the African slave trade interest of
my section:" Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733.

[56] _Senate Misc. Doc._, 36 Cong. 1 sess. No. 8.

[57] _Senate Journal_, 34 Cong. 1-2 sess. pp. 396, 695-8;
_Senate Reports_, 34 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 195.

[58] _House Journal_, 31 Cong. 2 sess. p. 64. There was still
another attempt by Sandidge. Cf. _26th Report of the Amer.
Anti-Slav. Soc._, p. 44.

[59] _Senate Journal_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 274; _Congressional
Globe_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1245.

[60] Congressional Globe, 32 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1072.

[61] I.e., since 1846: _Statutes at Large_, XI. 90.

[62] _Ibid._, XI. 227.

[63] _Ibid._, XI. 404.

[64] _Ibid._, XII. 21.

[65] E.g., Clay's resolutions: _Congressional Globe_, 31 Cong.
2 sess. pp. 304-9. Clayton's resolutions: _Senate Journal_, 33
Cong. 1 sess. p. 404; _House Journal_, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
1093, 1332-3; _Congressional Globe_, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
1591-3, 2139. Seward's bill: _Senate Journal_, 33 Cong. 1
sess. pp. 448, 451.

[66] Mr. Blair of Missouri asked unanimous consent in
Congress, Dec. 23, 1858, to a resolution instructing the
Judiciary Committee to bring in such a bill; Houston of
Alabama objected: _Congressional Globe_, 35 Cong. 2 sess. p.
198; _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 44.

[67] This was the object of attack in 1851