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Page 32 - Whereas, notwithstanding all efforts which may be made on the coast of Africa for suppressing the slave trade, the facilities for carrying on that traffic, and avoiding the vigilance of cruisers, by the fraudulent use of flags and other means, are so great, and the temptations for pursuing it, while a market can be found for slaves, so strong, as that the desired result may be long delayed, unless all...
Page 35 - States we had no convention ; there were indeed engagements, made by diplomatic notes, but nothing went to show the least disposition on their part to permit the right of detention and the search of papers; and if there was one point, more to be avoided than another, it was that relating to the visitation of vessels, belonging to the Union. He warned government not to proceed, but rather to issue an order in council or a declaration of war.
Page 62 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 36 - ... manifest that the difference between the parties is only verbal, it might be hoped that no harm would be done ; but the government of the United States thinks itself not justly chargeable with excessive jealousy, or with too great scrupulosity in the use of words, in insisting on its opinion that there is no such distinction as the British government maintains, between visit and search...
Page 32 - ... other means, are so great, and the temptations for pursuing it, while a market can be found for slaves, so strong, as that the desired result may be long delayed, unless all markets be shut against the purchase of African negroes; the parties to this treaty agree that they will unite in all becoming representations and remonstrances, with any and all Powers within whose dominions such markets are allowed to exist ; and that they will urge upon all such Powers the propriety and duty of closing...
Page 7 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the...
Page 36 - British capital," carrying on a traffic "which the law (the municipal law of England) has declared to be piracy." And Lord Palmerston says, that without this right of searching American vessels, "even the laws of England might be set at defiance by her own subjects." And so they may be evaded in a thousand ways, and have been evaded by means, furnished by ships both English and foreign. And why confine this claim of search to the evasion of the laws, respecting the slave trade ? Why not extend it...
Page 34 - At present, under the law as now generally understood and practised, no nation can exercise a right of visitation and search upon the common and unappropriated parts of the sea, save only on the belligerent claim.
Page 2 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to...
Page 30 - ... of dysentery, in the midst of every kind of filth, of itself sufficient to cause sickness, with no suitable means to alleviate their inconceivable sufferings, with perhaps one well person to look after the wants of two sick ones. They were dying every day; one, two, and sometimes rive in a day, with the dysentery, which generally followed the measles. Everywhere the sick and dying were pointed to Jesus, and the well were urged to prepare for death.