N. B. The commissioners were paid at the rate of $8 per diem, while employed in negotiating, and $8 for every 20 miles' travel.

These sums include their compensation for much service rendered in the Indian country, between October, 1832, and January, 1835, beside nego

tiating treaties, but not being separated in their accounts, they cannot be separated here.

1st Session.

MEMORIAL

OF

THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS,

UPON

The subject of the foreign slavetrade.

MAY 18, 1840.

Referred to the Committee on Commerce.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled:

The memorial of the representatives of the religious society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, &c.,

RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS:

That your memorialists are induced, by apprehension of religious duty and regard for the present and future welfare of our common country, to solicit the attention of Congress to an evil of great and appalling magnitude, in which we have reason to believe that many of our citizens are deeply involved.

We are encouraged to hope that our application will be judged worthy of serious consideration, from the circumstance that the President of the United States, at the opening of the present session, called the attention of your body to the same subject. We allude to the African slavetrade.

We are fully aware that this traffic is prohibited by the laws of nearly all the governments in the civilized world whose subjects or citizens have ever been engaged in its prosecution; and that the two most active and exten-sive maritime nations on the globe have denounced it as piratical, and prescribed, for those who may be found employed in it, the awful punishment. of death; yet the information which we have obtained, from various sources of unquestionable authenticity, has led to the sorrowful conviction, that this iniquitous commerce has, for several years past, been prosecuted to a greater extent, and in a manner more destructive to its victims, than it ever was before.

Under all the difficulties attendant upon this inquiry, and with ample allowance for all the questionable cases, an estimate, founded chiefly on official documents, leads to the conclusion, that no fewer than a hundred and fifty thousand African slaves are annually landed on the coasts of Brazil, Cuba, and Porto Rico. A large number is known to be carried into Texas;

Globe Office.