[39] New York _Journal of Commerce_, 1857; quoted in _24th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 56. [40] "The Slave-Trade in New York," in the _Continental Monthly_, January, 1862, p. 87. [41] New York _Evening Post_; quoted in Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733. [42] Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733; quoted from a New York paper. [43] _Friends' Appeal on behalf of the Coloured Races_ (1858), Appendix, p. 41; quoted from the _Journal of Commerce_. [44] _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 53-4; quoted from the African correspondent of the Boston _Journal_. From April, 1857, to May, 1858, twenty-one of twenty-two slavers which were seized by British cruisers proved to be American, from New York, Boston, and New Orleans. Cf. _25th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 122. De Bow estimated in 1856 that forty slavers cleared annually from Eastern harbors, clearing yearly $17,000,000: _De Bow's Review_, XXII. 430-1. [45] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47, p. 13. [46] _House Exec. Doc._, 34 Cong. 1 sess. XII. No. 105, p. 38. [47] New York _Herald_, Aug. 5, 1860; quoted in Drake, _Revelations of a Slave Smuggler_, Introd., pp. vii.-viii. [48] _House Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 89. Cf. _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 45-9. [49] Quoted in _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 46. [50] For all the above cases, cf. _Ibid._, p. 49. [51] Quoted in _27th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 20. Cf. _Report of the Secretary of the Navy_, 1859; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 2. [52] _27th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 21. [53] Quoted in _Ibid._ [54] Issue of July 22, 1860; quoted in Drake, _Revelations of a Slave Smuggler_, Introd., p. vi. The advertisement referred to was addressed to the "Ship-owners and Masters of our Mercantile Marine," and appeared in the 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.