[39] _House Reports_, 18 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 70; _Amer. State Papers, Foreign_, V. No. 379, pp. 364-5, No. 414, p. 783, etc. Among the nations invited by the United States to co-operate in suppressing the trade was the United States of Colombia. Mr. Anderson, our minister, expressed "the certain belief that the Republic of Colombia will not permit herself to be behind any Government in the civilized world in the adoption of energetic measures for the suppression of this disgraceful traffic": _Ibid._, No. 407, p. 729. The little republic replied courteously; and, as a _projet_ for a treaty, Mr. Anderson offered the proposed English treaty of 1824, including the Senate amendments. Nevertheless, the treaty thus agreed to was summarily rejected by the Senate, March 9, 1825: _Ibid._, p. 735. Another result of this general invitation of the United States was a proposal by Colombia that the slave-trade and the status of Hayti be among the subjects for discussion at the Panama Congress. As a result of this, a Senate committee recommended that the United States take no part in the Congress. This report was finally disagreed to by a vote of 19 to 24: _Ibid._, No. 423, pp. 837, 860, 876, 882. [40] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1823-4, and 1826-7. Brazil abolished the trade in 1830. [41] This treaty was further defined in 1833: _Ibid._, 1830-1, p. 641 ff.; 1832-3, p. 286 ff. [42] _Ibid._, 1833-4, pp. 218 ff., 1059 ff. [43] _Ibid._, 1837-8, p. 268 ff. [44] _Ibid._, 1838-9, p. 792 ff. [45] Viz., Feb. 28, 1825; April 7, 1830; Feb. 16, 1831; March 3, 1831. The last resolution passed the House: _House Journal_, 21 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 426-8. [46] Cf. _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 35-6, etc.; _House Reports_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 283, pp. 730-55, etc. [47] These were the celebrated cases of the "Encomium," "Enterprize," and "Comet." Cf. _Senate Doc._, 24 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 174; 25 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 216. Cf. also case of the "Creole": _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. II.-III. Nos. 51, 137. [48] _Ibid._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 179; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. III. No. 29; 32 Cong. 2 sess. III. No. 19; _Senate Reports_, 31 Cong. 2 sess. No. 301; 32 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 158; 35 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 36; _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 185; 27 Cong. 3 sess. V. No. 191; 28 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 83; _House Exec. Doc._, 32 Cong. 2 sess. III. No. 20; _House Reports_, 26 Cong. 2 sess. No. 51; 28 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 426; 29 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 753; also Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, _15 Peters_, 518. Cf. Drake, _Revelations of a Slave Smuggler_, p. 98. [49] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1834-5, p. 136.