[Footnote 14: Appendix A, No. 53.]

[Footnote 15: Appendix A, No. 57; Appendix D, No. 6.]

[Footnote 16: Boston Gazette, Jan. 1, 1770.]

[Footnote 17: Boston Gazette, Oct. 2, 1750; G. W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, I. 330.]

[Footnote 18: Liberator, March 16, 1860.]

[Footnote 19: W. C. Nell's Address at the Nineteenth Anniversary of Boston Ma.s.sacre.]

[Footnote 20: Moore, Slavery in Ma.s.sachusetts, 117.]

[Footnote 21: Appendix A, No 3; Appendix D, No. 10.]

[Footnote 22: See _ante_, -- 2.]

[Footnote 23: N. Y. Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, XIII. 238; Letter from Jacob Aldrich to Director Stuyvesant of New Netherlands, New Amstel, 14 May, 1659; Doc.u.mentary History of N. Y. Colony, II. 556; Appendix D, No. 2.]

[Footnote 24: Appendix A, No. 8, Gilman, History of the American People, 605.]

[Footnote 25: N. Y. Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, I. 342; Doyle, English in America, I. 391.]

[Footnote 26: Maryland Archives, II. 523.]

[Footnote 27: Appendix A, No. 37.]

[Footnote 28: Acts and Laws of Connecticut, 229.]

[Footnote 29: N. Y. Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, V. 637; Appendix D, No. 4.]

[Footnote 30: N. Y. Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, V. 793.]

[Footnote 31: Appendix A, Nos. 50, 59.]

[Footnote 32: Giddings, Exiles of Florida, 281; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, I. 122.]

[Footnote 33: _Ante_, -- 8.]

[Footnote 34: Letter from William Beekman to Director Stuyvesant, in N.

Y. Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, XIII. 346; Appendix D, No. 3.]

[Footnote 35: N. Y. Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, XIII. 346.]

[Footnote 36: Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Ma.s.sachusetts, 28; Doyle, English in America, I. 391; compare Appendix A, No. 14.]

[Footnote 37: John Winthrop, History of New England from 1630 to 1649, p. 383; Appendix D, No. 1.]

[Footnote 38: Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of Council, 1636-1667, pp. 134, 135.]

[Footnote 39: Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of Council, III. 472.]

[Footnote 40: Letter from M. de la Jonquiere to M. de Rouille, in N. Y.

Colonial Ma.n.u.scripts, X. 209; Appendix D, No. 5.]

[Footnote 41: Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society Collections, Third Series, IX. 2; Appendix D, No. 7.]

[Footnote 42: J. Quincy, Reports of Cases, 96; Appendix D, No. 8.]

[Footnote 43: Moore, Slavery in Ma.s.sachusetts, 117; T. R. Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 2, Law of Negro Slavery, 164; Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society Collections, Third Series, IX. 2; Josiah Quincy, Reports of Cases, 96; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, II.]

[Footnote 44: Appendix B, No. 1.]

[Footnote 45: Appendix B, Nos. 3, 5.]

[Footnote 46: Appendix B, No. 2.]

[Footnote 47: Post, -- 22.]

[Footnote 48: Randall, Jefferson, I. 397-400; Winsor, VII. 528; Journals of Congress, IX. 153-156.]

[Footnote 49: Appendix B, No. 4; Journals of Congress, X. 79; Bancroft, History of the U. S. (last rev.), VI. 132-134; Bancroft, Const.i.tution, I. 178-180; Hildreth, III. 458.]

[Footnote 50: Appendix B, No. 6. On the Northwest Ordinance in general, see Winsor, VII. 538; J. H. Merriam, Legislative History of the Ordinance of 1787 (Worcester, 1888); Lalor's Cyclopaedia, III. 30-34.]

[Footnote 51: Elliot's Debates, V. 487.]

[Footnote 52: Ibid., V. 487.]

[Footnote 53: Appendix B, No. 7.]

[Footnote 54: Elliot's Debates, III. 277.]

[Footnote 55: Ibid., III. 182.]

[Footnote 56: Ibid., III. 401.]

[Footnote 57: Ibid., III. 428.]

[Footnote 58: Ibid., III. 335.]

CHAPTER II.

_LEGISLATION FROM 1789 TO 1850._

-- 16. Effect of the fugitive slave clause in the Const.i.tution.