...were admirable motives, and very cogent reasons, which led our government to establish an armed force on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. What could he more essential to the "greatest happiness" than the annihilation of the abominable traffic...

...lakes, which the treaty of 1783 gave to them. The treaty also bound the United States to pay for Rouse's Point, at the outlet of Lake Champlain, which the...of '83 and the award of the king of the Netherlands gave^to us as a matter of right. It also bound the United Statesrto keep up squadron, in conjunction...

...a treaty made with Great Britain in 1842, have continued to the present time to maintain a squadron on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. To illustrate the importance of this squadron, its effects upon the condition of Africa, and the relations...

...a treaty made with Great Britain in 1842, have continued to the present time to maintain a squadron on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. To illustrate the importance of this squadron, its effects upon the condition of Africa, and the relations...

...a treaty made with Great Britain in 1842, have continued to the present time to maintain a squadron on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. To illustrate the importance of this squadron, its effects upon the condition of Africa, and the relations...

...stipulations were entered into between the two powers, by which a joint cooperation of their naval forces on the coast of Africa, for the suppression of the slave trade, was substituted for the mutual right of search, provided by the previous treaties of 1831 and 1833....

...people at Liberia, as I found them while recently in command of the United States squadron employed on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. Of the resources and the adaptation of that country, to the wants of that peculiar people, you must...

...to abrogate the 8th article of the treaty of Washington — providing for maintaining a Naval force on the Coast of Africa, for the suppression of the slave trade. I respectfully remark on the several points presented in this Report : 1st. "The enormous expense in...

...lakes, which the treaty of 1783 gave to them. The treaty also bound the United States to pay for Rouse's Point, at the outlet of Lake Champlain, which the...coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade — nominally for five years, but in reality indefinitely, by the addition of that clause (so seductive...

...to the country. And also the convention of 1842, with the •me power for keeping up each a squadron on the coast of Africa, (for the suppression of the slave trade,) for five years; and nntll either party should give notice for its abroc j' .• n The five yetos have...