88
This seems to have been only one of some three or four such undertakings attempted at the time. See House Doc. No. 169, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 44-45.
89
Elsewhere written W. H. Ellis.
90
Ellis's contract promised more than this in case of larger families.
91
For the contract between Ellis and the company see House Doc. No. 169, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 46-48; for that between Ellis and the colonists see ibid., pp. 4-5. There are only a few minor differences in the two.
92
Ibid., p. 59.
93
Dwyer's Report, and enclosures, ibid., pp. 42 ff.
94
Ibid., pp. 23, 36, 42.
95
Burke to Uhl, May 28, 1895, and enclosure, ibid., pp. 2-3.
96
Olney to Butler, June 17, 1895, ibid., p. 5.
97
It appears that only one band had tried to escape prior to July 18 or 19.
98
Sparks to Uhl, June 24, 1895, and enclosure, ibid., pp. 6-11.
99
Ibid., pp. 12, 16.
100
Ibid., pp. 17-20.
101
Sparks to Uhl, June 4, 1895, and enclosure, pp. 13-14.
102
Ibid., p. 65.
103
Sparks to Uhl, June 24, 1895, and enclosure, pp. 42, 65-66.
President Cleveland, in his message of December 2, 1895, urged an appropriation for the reimbursements of the railroads, and on January 27, 1896, he sent a special message to Congress with reference to the matter. Richardson, Messages and Papers, IX, 634, 664.
An appropriation for urgent deficiencies which was passed on February 26, 1896, contained the following interesting item: "For the payment of the cost of transportation furnished by certain railway companies in connection with the failure of the scheme for the colonization of negroes in Mexico, necessitating their return to their homes in Alabama, five thousand and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents." 29 U. S. Statutes at Large, p. 18.
104
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 138.
105
Ibid., 170.
106
Ibid., 239.
107
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 168.
108
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, I, 542-543.
109
Ibid., III, 121.
110
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 122-124.
111
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 133-138.
112
Ibid., III, 170.
113
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 190.
114
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 193-194.
115
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 239, 240.
116
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 310-315.
117
These peculiarities, it would seem, are not of equal force in the South American States, owing, in part, perhaps, to a former degradation, produced by colonial vassalage; but principally to the lesser contrast of colours. The difference is not striking between that of many of the Spanish and Portuguese Creoles and that of many of the mixed breed.J. M.
118
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 495-498.
119
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 541-542.
120
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, III, 2-3.
121
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, IV, 60.
122
Ibid., IV, 188.
123
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, IV, 192.
124
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, IV, 213-214.
125
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, IV, 274-279.
126
Letters and other Writings of James Madison, IV, 301.
127
American Convention Abolition Societies. Minutes, 1796, pp. 12, 14.
128
American Convention of Abolition Societies, Minutes of, 1797, pp. 16 and 17.
129
American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1804, pp. 30-33.
130
Minutes of Proceedings of Tenth American Convention for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1805, pp. 36-39.
131
Minutes of the American Convention Abolition Societies, 1818. Pages 43 and 47.
132
The Liberator, December, 10, 1836.