[26] Cf. the case of the French ship “Le Louis”:  2 Dodson,
      238; and also the case of the “San Juan Nepomuceno”:  1
      Haggard, 267.

 [27] British and Foreign State Papers, 1819-20, pp. 375-9;
      also pp. 220-2.

 [28] Ibid., 1820-21, pp. 395-6.

 [29] House Doc., 14 Cong. 2 sess.  II.  No. 77.

 [30] Annals of Cong., 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 71, 73-78,
      94-109.  The motion was opposed largely by Southern members,
      and passed by a vote of 17 to 16.

 [31] One was reported, May 9, 1820, by Mercer’s committee, and
      passed May 12:  House Journal, 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 497, 518,
      520, 526; Annals of Cong., 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 697-9.  A
      similar resolution passed the House next session, and a
      committee reported in favor of the Right of Search:  Ibid.,
      16 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1064-71.  Cf. Ibid., pp. 476, 743, 865,
      1469.

 [32] British and Foreign State Papers, 1820-21, pp. 397-400.

 [33] British and Foreign State Papers, 1822-3, pp. 94-110.

 [34] House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92.

 [35] House Journal, 17 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 212, 280; Annals
      of Cong., 17 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 922, 1147-1155.

 [36] British and Foreign State Papers, 1823-4, pp. 409-21;
      1824-5, pp. 828-47; Amer.  State Papers, Foreign, V. No. 371,
      pp. 333-7.

 [37] Ibid.

 [38] Ibid., No. 374, p. 344 ff., No. 379, pp. 360-2.

 [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.