The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America Part 61

~1841, Jan. 20.~ Message from the President ... communicating ... copies of correspondence, imputing malpractices to the American consul at Havana, in regard to granting papers to vessels engaged in the slave-trade. _Senate Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. III. No. 125. (Contains much information.)

~1841, March 3.~ Search or Seizure of American Vessels, etc.: Message from the President ... transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to seizures or search of American vessels on the coast of Africa, etc. _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115 (elaborate correspondence). See also _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 1 sess. No. 34; _House Reports_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 283, pp. 478-755 (correspondence).

~1841, Dec. 4.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 349, 351.

~1842, Jan. 20.~ Message from the President ... communicating ... copies of correspondence in relation to the mutiny on board the brig Creole, and the liberation of the slaves who were pa.s.sengers in the said vessel.

_Senate Doc._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 51. See also _Ibid._, III. No.

137; _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 3 sess. I. No. 2, p. 114.

~1842, May 10.~ Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi in reference to the right of search, and the case of the American brig Creole. _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 215.

(Suggestive.)

~1842, etc.~ [Quintuple Treaty and Ca.s.s's Protest: Messages of the President, etc.] _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 249; _Senate Doc._, 27 Cong. 3 sess. II. No. 52, and IV. No. 223; 29 Cong. 1 sess.

VIII. No. 377.

~1842, June 10.~ Indemnities for slaves on board the Comet and Encomium: Report of the Secretary of State. _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. V. No.

242.

~1842, Aug.~ Suppression of the African Slave Trade--Extradition: Case of the Creole, etc. _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 3 sess. I. No. 2, pp.

105-136. (Correspondence accompanying Message of President.)

~1842, Dec.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Doc._, 27 Cong.

3 sess. I. No. 2, p. 532.

~1842, Dec. 30.~ Message from the President ... in relation to the strength and expense of the squadron to be employed on the coast of Africa. _Senate Doc._, 27 Cong. 3 sess. II. No. 20.

~1843, Feb. 28.~ Construction of the Treaty of Was.h.i.+ngton, etc.: Message from the President ... transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the House of the 22d February, 1843. _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 3 sess. V. No. 192.

~1843, Feb. 28.~ African Colonization.... Report: "The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of the friends of African colonization, a.s.sembled in convention in the city of Was.h.i.+ngton in May last, beg leave to submit the following report," etc. (16 pp.).

Appendix. (1071 pp.). _House Reports_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 283 [Contents of Appendix: pp. 17-408, identical nearly with the Appendix to _House Reports_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348; pp. 408-478.

Congressional history of the slave-trade, case of the Fenix, etc. (cf.

_House Doc._, 21 Cong. 2 sess. III. No. 54); pp. 478-729, search and seizure of American vessels (same as _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V.

No. 115, pp. 1-252); pp. 730-755, correspondence on British search of American vessels, etc.; pp. 756-61, Quintuple Treaty; pp. 762-3, President's Message on Treaty of 1842; pp. 764-96, correspondence on African squadron, etc.; pp. 796-1088, newspaper extracts on the slave-trade and on colonization, report of Colonization Society, etc.]

~1843, Nov. 25.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Doc._, 28 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 484-5.

~1844, March 14.~ Message from the President ... communicating ...

information in relation to the abuse of the flag of the United States in ... the African slave trade, etc. _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 1 sess. IV.

No. 217.

~1844, March 15.~ Report: "The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the pet.i.tion of ... John Hanes, ... praying an adjustment of his accounts for the maintenance of certain captured African slaves, ask leave to report," etc. _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 194.

~1844, May 4.~ African Slave Trade: Report: "The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the pet.i.tion of the American Colonization Society and others, respectfully report," etc. _House Reports_, 28 Cong.

1 sess. II. No. 469.

~1844, May 22.~ Suppression of the Slave-Trade on the coast of Africa: Message from the President, etc. _House Doc._, 28 Cong. 1 sess. VI. No.

263.

~1844, Nov. 25.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, p. 514.

~1845, Feb. 20.~ Slave-Trade, etc.: Message from the President ...

transmitting copies of despatches from the American minister at the court of Brazil, relative to the slave-trade, etc. _House Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 148. (Important evidence, statistics, etc.)

~1845, Feb. 26.~ Message from the President ... communicating ...

information relative to the operations of the United States squadron, etc. _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 150. (Contains reports of Commodore Perry, and statistics of Liberia.)

~1845, Dec. 1.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Doc._, 29 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2, p. 645.

~1845, Dec. 22.~ African Slave-Trade: Message from the President ...

transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, together with the correspondence of George W. Slac.u.m, relative to the African slave trade.

_House Doc._, 29 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 43. (Contains much information.)

~1846, June 6.~ Message from the President ... communicating ... copies of the correspondence between the government of the United States and that of Great Britain, on the subject of the right of search; with copies of the protest of the American minister at Paris against the quintuple treaty, etc. _Senate Doc._, 29 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 377.

Cf. _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 3 sess. II. No. 52, and IV. No. 223; _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 249.

~1846-1847, Dec.~ Reports of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Doc._, 29 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 4, p. 377; 30 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 8, p. 946.

~1848, March 3.~ Message from the President ... communicating a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence of Mr. Wise, late United States minister to Brazil, in relation to the slave trade.

_Senate Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 28. (Full of facts.)

~1848, May 12.~ Report of the Secretary of State, in relation to ...

the seizure of the brig Dougla.s.s by a British cruiser. _Senate Exec.

Doc._, 30 Cong. 1 sess. VI. No. 44.

~1848, Dec. 4.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 605, 607.

~1849, March 2.~ Correspondence between the Consuls of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, etc., with the Secretary of State, on the subject of the African Slave Trade: Message of the President, etc. _House Exec.

Doc._, 30 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61. (Contains much evidence.)

~1849, Dec. 1.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. III. pt. 1, No. 5, pt. 1, pp. 427-8.

~1850, March 18.~ Report of the Secretary of the Navy, showing the annual number of deaths in the United States squadron on the coast of Africa, and the annual cost of that squadron. _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. X. No. 40.

~1850, July 22.~ African Squadron: Message from the President ...

transmitting Information in reference to the African squadron. _House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. IX. No. 73. (Gives total expenses of the squadron, slavers captured, etc.)

~1850, Aug. 2.~ Message from the President ... relative to the searching of American vessels by British s.h.i.+ps of war. _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66.

~1850, Dec. 17.~ Message of the President ... communicating ... a report of the Secretary of State, with doc.u.ments relating to the African slave trade. _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6.

~1851-1853.~ Reports of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Exec. Doc._, 32 Cong. 1 sess. II. pt. 2, No. 2, pt. 2, pp. 4-5; 32 Cong. 2 sess. I.

pt. 2, No. 1, pt. 2, p. 293; 33 Cong. 1 sess. I. pt. 3, No. 1, pt. 3, pp. 298-9.

~1854, March 13.~ Message from the President ... communicating ... the correspondence between Mr. Schenck, United States Minister to Brazil, and the Secretary of State, in relation to the African slave trade.

_Senate Exec. Doc._, 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47.

~1854, June 13.~ Report submitted by Mr. Slidell, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, on a resolution relative to the abrogation of the eighth article of the treaty with Great Britain of the 9th of August, 1842, etc. _Senate Reports_, 34 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 195. (Injunction of secrecy removed June 26, 1856.)

~1854-1855, Dec.~ Reports of the Secretary of the Navy. _House Exec.