 I deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised, with impunity, by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galveston, under the Mexican flag...  Southwestern Historical Quarterly - Pàgina 1461903Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1819 - 542 pàgines
...accompanied by suggestions of the measures necessary to repress the evil, I deem it my duty to state, that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised, with impunity,by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galvezton,... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1841 - 454 pàgines
...the Treasury of the tJnited States, dated August 1st, 1817 : — '"'* I deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the Slave Act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised with impunity by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galveston,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 708 pàgines
...accompanied by suggestions of the measures necessary to repress the evil, I deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised, with impunity, by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galveston,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 716 pàgines
...accompanied by suggestions of the measures necessary to repress the evil, I deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised, with impunity, by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galveston,... | |
 | Homer S. Thrall - 1883 - 910 pàgines
...Crawford, the Secretary of the Treasury, at Washington, as follows : "I deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our own revenue laws, continue to be practiced with impunity by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 864 pàgines
...collector at New Orleans, writes to the secretary of state, Aug. 1, 1817: 'I deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised with impunity, by a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galveston,... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1896 - 354 pàgines
...United States. This Galveston nest had, in 1817, eleven armed vessels to prosecute the work, and " the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised." 3 Cargoes of as many as three hundred slaves were arriving in Texas. All... | |
 | Texas State Historical Association - 1903 - 408 pàgines
...was, chiefly by Indians, there was no better market. The difficulty was settled by some of De 'Aury's recruits from the United States, who smuggled the...a motley mixture of freebooters and smugglers, at Galve.'ton, under the Mexican flag."2 But, when De Aury abandoned the island in the summer of 1817... | |
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