[55] _Congressional Globe_, 35 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1362. Cf. the speech of a delegate from Georgia to the Democratic Convention at Charleston, 1860: "If any of you northern democrats will go home with me to my plantation, I will show you some darkies that I bought in Virginia, some in Delaware, some in Florida, and I will also show you the pure African, the noblest Roman of them all. I represent the African slave trade interest of my section:" Lalor, _Cyclopaedia_, III. 733. [56] _Senate Misc. Doc._, 36 Cong. 1 sess. No. 8. [57] _Senate Journal_, 34 Cong. 1-2 sess. pp. 396, 695-8; _Senate Reports_, 34 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 195. [58] _House Journal_, 31 Cong. 2 sess. p. 64. There was still another attempt by Sandidge. Cf. _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-Slav. Soc._, p. 44. [59] _Senate Journal_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 274; _Congressional Globe_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1245. [60] Congressional Globe, 32 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1072. [61] I.e., since 1846: _Statutes at Large_, XI. 90. [62] _Ibid._, XI. 227. [63] _Ibid._, XI. 404. [64] _Ibid._, XII. 21. [65] E.g., Clay's resolutions: _Congressional Globe_, 31 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 304-9. Clayton's resolutions: _Senate Journal_, 33 Cong. 1 sess. p. 404; _House Journal_, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 1093, 1332-3; _Congressional Globe_, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 1591-3, 2139. Seward's bill: _Senate Journal_, 33 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 448, 451. [66] Mr. Blair of Missouri asked unanimous consent in Congress, Dec. 23, 1858, to a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to bring in such a bill; Houston of Alabama objected: _Congressional Globe_, 35 Cong. 2 sess. p. 198; _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 44. [67] This was the object of attack in 1851 and 1853 by Giddings: _House Journal_, 32 Cong. 1 sess. p. 42; 33 Cong. 1 sess. p. 147. Cf. _House Journal_, 38 Cong. 1 sess. p. 46. [68] By Mr. Wilson, March 20, 1860: _Senate Journal_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. p. 274. [69] Four or five such attempts were made: Dec. 12, 1860, _House Journal_, 36 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 61-2; Jan. 7, 1861, _Congressional Globe_, 36 Cong. 2 sess. p. 279; Jan. 23, 1861, _Ibid._, p. 527; Feb. 1, 1861, _Ibid._, p. 690; Feb. 27, 1861, _Ibid._, pp. 1243, 1259. [70] "The Slave-Trade in New York," in the _Continental Monthly_, January, 1862, p. 87. [71] New York _Herald_, July 14, 1856. [72] _Ibid._ Cf. _Senate Exec. Doc._, 37 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 53. [73] _27th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 25-6. Cf. _26th Report_, _Ibid._, pp. 45-9. [74] _27th Report_, _Ibid._, pp. 26-7. [75] _26th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 54. [76] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1859-60, pp. 899, 973. [77] Nov. 29, 1851: _House Exec. Doc._, 32 Cong. 1 sess. II. pt. 2, No. 2, p. 4.