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to be profitable and suited to the climate and productions. And this traffic was openly carried on, and fortunes accumulated by it, without reproach from the people of the States where they resided. This statement, it must be remembered, does not proceed from any partisan source, but is extracted from a judicial opinion pronounced by the highest court in the country. In illustration of the truthfulness of the latter part of it may be mentioned the fact that a citizen of Rhode Island (James D'Wolf), long and largely concerned in the slave trade, was sent from that state to the Senate of the United States as late as the year 1821. In 1825 he resigned his seat in the Senate and removed to Havana, where he lived for many years, actively engaged in the same pursuit, as president of a slave-trading company. The story is told of him that, on being informed that the trade was to be declared piracy, he smiled and said, So much the better for us—the Yankees will be the only people not sca
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
. Speech in U. S. Senate relative to president's message on state of the Union, 519-37. John W., 290-91. Dayton, 32, 226. Delaware, 9, 10, 42. Commissioners to Annapolis, 76. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 80. Ratification of Constitution, 90-91. Delaware (ship), 285. Democratic convention, 40, 43. Convention (Mississippi), 15-17. Party, 32, 39-40, 44. Rupture, 26, 32, 43. Explanation, 31. Convention, 43. Party (Mississippi), 17. D'Wolf, James, 71. Doolittle, —, 58. Douglas, Stephen A., 24, 25, 32, 33-34, 38, 39-40, 45, 58, 59, 177, 178. Nominated for president, 43, 44. Resolution regarding forts, 242-43, 250. Drayton, —, 430. Dred Scott case. Decision of Supreme Court, 70-71. E Early, Gen. Jubal A., 305, 306, 330. Extracts from narrative of Bull Run, 322-28. Extracts on retreat from Centreville, 401. Elgin, Col., Gustavus, 369. Ellis, Gov. of North Carolina. Reply to U. S. call for troops, 3