[106] An act to relieve him was finally passed, Feb. 8, 1827,
      nine years after the capture.  See Statutes at Large, VI.
      357.

[107] It is difficult to get at the exact facts in this
      complicated case.  The above statement is, I think, much milder
      than the real facts would warrant, if thoroughly known.  Cf.
      House Reports, 19 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 231; 21 Cong. 1
      sess.  III.  No. 348, pp. 62-3, etc.; 24 Cong. 1 sess.  I. No.
      209; Amer.  State Papers, Naval, II.  No. 308.

[108] The first method, represented by the Act of 1818, was
      favored by the South, the Senate, and the Democrats; the
      second method, represented by the Act of 1819, by the North,
      the House, and by the as yet undeveloped but growing Whig
      party.

[109] Committees on the slave-trade were appointed by the
      House in 1810 and 1813; the committee of 1813 recommended a
      revision of the laws, but nothing was done:  Annals of Cong.,
      11 Cong. 3 sess. p. 387; 12 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1074, 1090.  The
      presidential message of 1816 led to committees on the trade in
      both Houses.  The committee of the House of Representatives
      reported a joint resolution on abolishing the traffic and
      colonizing the Negroes, also looking toward international
      action.  This never came to a vote:  Senate Journal, 14 Cong.
      2 sess. pp. 46, 179, 180; House Journal, 14 Cong. 2 sess.
      pp. 25, 27, 380; House Doc, 14 Cong. 2 sess.  II.  No. 77. 
      Finally, the presidential message of 1817 (House Journal, 15
      Cong. 1 sess. p. 11), announcing the issuance of orders to
      suppress the Amelia Island establishment, led to two other
      committees in both Houses.  The House committee under Middleton
      made a report with a bill (Amer.  State Papers,
      Miscellaneous, II.  No. 441), and the Senate committee also
      reported a bill.

[110] The Senate debates were entirely unreported, and the
      report of the House debates is very meagre.  For the
      proceedings, see Senate Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 243,
      304, 315, 333, 338, 340, 348, 377, 386, 388, 391, 403, 406;
      House Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 19, 20, 29, 51, 92, 131,
      362, 410, 450, 452, 456, 468, 479, 484, 492, 505.

[111] Simkins of South Carolina, Edwards of North Carolina,
      and Pindall:  Annals of Cong., 15 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1740.

[112] Hugh Nelson of Virginia:  Annals of Cong., 15 Cong. 1
      sess. p. 1740.

[113] Statutes at Large, III. 450.  By this act the first six
      sections of the Act of 1807 were repealed.

[114] Or, more accurately speaking, every one realized, in
      view of the increased activity of the trade, that it would be
      a failure.