[8] As early as 1836 Calhoun declared that he should ever regret that the term "piracy" had been applied to the slave-trade in our laws: Benton, _Abridgment of Debates_, XII. 718. [9] Governor J.H. Hammond of South Carolina, in _Letters to Clarkson_, No. 1, p. 2. [10] In 1826 Forsyth of Georgia attempted to have a bill passed abolishing the African agency, and providing that the Africans imported be disposed of in some way that would entail no expense on the public treasury: _Home Journal_, 19 Cong. 1 sess. p. 258. In 1828 a bill was reported to the House to abolish the agency and make the Colonization Society the agents, if they would agree to the terms. The bill was so amended as merely to appropriate money for suppressing the slave-trade: _Ibid._, 20 Cong. 1 sess., House Bill No. 190. [11] _Ibid._, pp. 121, 135; 20 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 58-9, 84, 215. [12] _Congressional Globe_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 328, 331-6. [13] Cf. Mercer's bill, _House Journal_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. p. 512; also Strange's two bills, _Senate Journal_, 25 Cong. 3 sess. pp. 200, 313; 26 Cong. 1 sess., Senate Bill No. 123. [14] _Senate Journal_, 25 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 297-8, 300. [15] _Senate Doc_, 28 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 217, p. 19; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6, pp. 3, 10, etc.; 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47, pp. 5-6; 34 Cong. 1 sess. XV. No. 99, p. 80; _House Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 117-8; cf. _Ibid._, 20 Cong. 1 sess. p. 650, etc.; 21 Cong. 2 sess. p. 194; 27 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 31, 184; _House Doc._, 29 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 43, p. 11; _House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. III. pt. 1, No. 5, pp. 7-8. [16] _Senate Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess., Senate Bill No. 335; _House Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 1138, 1228, 1257. [17] _Statutes at Large_, III. 764. [18] Cf. above, Chapter VIII. p. 125. [19] Cf. _Report of the Secretary of the Navy_, 1827. [20] _Ibid._ [21] _House Reports_, 24 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 223.