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1875-AIphonso A. Sterrett; Rufus W. Cobb.
1901-J. Robert Beavers.
Senators .-
1819-20-Bennett Ware.
1822-3-Jack Shackelford.
1825-6-James Jackson.
1828-9-Thomas Crawford.
1831-2-Joab Lawler. 1832-3-Alexander Hill.
1834-5-James M. Nabors.
1837-8-Daniel E. Watrous.
1840-1-Daniel E. Watrous. 1843-4-Daniel E. Watrous. 1847-8-James M. Nabors. 1849-50-Daniel E. Watrous.
1853-4-Moses Kelly. 1855-6-H. W. Nelson.
1857-8-John S. Storrs.
1859-60-H. W. Nelson.
1861-2-John P. Morgan.
1863-4-M. T. Porter. 1865-6-Gilbert T. Deason.
1868-J. W. Mahan. 1871-2-J. W. Mahan. 1872-3-R. W. Cobb. 1873-R. W. Cobb. 1874-5-R. W. Cobb. 1875-6-R. W. Cobb. 1876-7-R. W. Cobb.
1878-9-W. C. Rosamond.
1880-1-J. B. Luckie.
1882-3-J. B. Luckie. 1884-5-R. H. Sterrett.
Representatives .-
1819-20-Jesse Wilson; Arthur Taylor. 1820-1-Benjamin Davis; Jack Shackel- ford.
1821 (called) - Benjamin Davis; Jack Shackelford.
1821-2-Benjamin Davis; Thomas McHen- ry. 1822-3-Benjamin Davis.
1823-4-Samuel W. Mardis.
1824-5-Samuel W. Mardis.
1825-6-Samuel W. Mardis.
1826-7-Joab Lawler.
1827-8-Joab Lawler.
1828-9-Joab Lawler; Samuel W. Mardis. 1829-30-Joab Lawler; Samuel W. Mardis. 1830-31-Joab LawIer; Samuel W. Mardis. 1831-2-Leonard Tarrant; James N. Na- bors.
1832 (called)-Leonard Tarrant; George Hill.
1832-3-Leonard Tarrant; George Hill.
1833-4-James M. Nabors; George Hill.
1834-5-Martin H. McHenry; Alphonzo A. Sterrett.
1835-6-Martin H. McHenry; Alphonzo A. Sterrett.
1836-7-Martin H. McHenry; John M. Mc- CIanahan.
1837 (called)-Martin H. McHenry; John M. McClanahan.
1837-8-John H. McClanahan; John T. Primm. 1838-9-John M. Mcclanahan; William J. Peters.
1839-40-James M. Nabors; Wade H. Grif- fin.
1840-1-W. J. Peters; Wade H. Griffin. 1841 (called)-W. J. Peters; Wade H. Griffin.
1841-2-Wade H. Griffin; John S. Storrs. 1842-3-John S. Storrs; William M. Kidd. 1843-4-John S. Storrs; David Owen.
1844-5-John S. Storrs; William M. Kidd. 1845-6-John S. Storrs; Joseph Roper.
1847-8-John S. Storrs; T. H. Brazier.
1849-50-John S. Storrs; Thomas H. Bra- zier.
1851-2-W. L. Prentice; Joseph Roper.
1853-4-A. A. Sterrett; T. P. Lawrence. 1855-6-J. M. McClanaban; N. R. King. 1857-8-N. B. Mardis; J. P. Morgan.
1859-60-D. T. Seal; W. G. Bowdon.
1903-Walter Robert Oliver
1907-H. S. Doster.
1907 (Spec.)-H. S. Doster.
1909 (Spec.)-H. S. Doster.
1911-T. A. Curry.
1915-W. W. Wallace.
1919-J. C. Harper.
1886-7-R. H. Sterrett.
1898-9-G. B. Deans.
1899 (Spec.)-G. B. Deans.
1900-01-W. R. Oliver.
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1861 (1st called)-D. T. Seal; W. G. Bow- don.
1861 (2d called)-J. P. West; S. Brashier.
1861-2-J. P. West; S. Brashier.
1862 (called)-J. P. West; S. Brashier.
1862-3-J. P. West; S. Brashier.
1863 (called)-J. Keenan; Samuel Leeper. 1863-4-J. Keenan; Samuel Leeper.
1864 (called)-J. Keenan; Samuel Leeper.
1864-5-J. Keenan; Samuel Leeper.
1865-6-J. C. Hand; Samuel Leeper.
1866-7-J. C. Hand; Samuel Leeper.
1868-E. W. Attaway; M. R. Bell.
1869-70-E. W. Attaway.
1870-1-Burwell B. Lewis.
1871-2-B. B. Lewis.
1872-3-A. M. Elliott.
1873-A. M. Elliott.
1874-5-L. M. Wilson.
1875-6-L. M. Wilson.
1876-7-W. M. McMath.
1878-9- J. W. Pitts.
1880-1-Henry Wilson.
1882-3-R. N. Hawkins.
1884-5-E. G. Walker.
1886-7-W. T. Smith.
1888-9-A. P. Longshore.
1890-1-A. P. Longshore.
1892-3-John P. West.
1894-5-G. B. Deans.
1896-7-A. P. Longshore.
1898-9-W. H. Sturdivant.
1899 (Spec.)-W. H. Sturdivant.
1900-1-G. B. Deans.
1903-Edward Sherman Lyman.
1907-Hosea Pearson.
1907 (Spec.)-Hosea Pearson.
1909 (Spec.)-Hosea Pearson.
1911-W. H. Sturdivant.
1.915-H. M. Judge.
1919-A. P. Longshore.
REFERENCES .- Toulmin, Digest (1823), index; Acts of Ala .; Brewer, Alabama, p. 518; Berney, Handbook (1892), p. 327; Riley, Alabama as it is (1893), p. 79; Northern Alabama (1888), p. 160; Alabama, 1909 (Ala. Dept. of Ag. and Ind., Bulletin 27), p. 194; U. S. Soil Survey with map; Alabama land book (1916), p. 141; Ala. Official and Statistical Register, 1903-1915, 5 vols .; Ala. Anthropological Society, Handbook (1910) ; Geol. Survey of Ala., Agricultural fea- tures of the State (1883) ; The Valley Regions of Alabama, parts 1 and 2 (1896, 1897), and Un- derground Water resources of Alabama (1907).
SHELBY IRON COMPANY. An industrial corporation, incorporated, 1890, in New Jer- sey; capital stock authorized and outstand- ing, $1,000,000; shares, $100; funded debt: $250,000, 6 per cent gold notes, due Septem- ber 1, 1918; property owned in Alabama- iron ore mines, iron furnaces, and charcoal pits at Shelby; offices: Shelby, Ala., and New York, N. Y.
This company succeeded to the property and the name of one of the first iron-making companies organized in the State. Prior to 1850 Horace Ware built a small blast furnace in Shelby County and called it the Shelby Iron Works. From this beginning has grown the large industry operated by the present
organization. The operations of the com- pany were hindered for many years by the absence of transportation facilities, and by the scarcity of skilled labor. The products of the furnace, consisting mainly of pig iron and hollow ware, were either sold to the merchants and farmers of the surrounding country or hauled to the Coosa River, about 8 miles distant, and floated down to Montgom- ery, Prattville, and Mobile. In 1854 the man- ufacture of wrought-iron blooms was under- taken. A small forge was erected on Camp Branch, three miles west of the furnace. Some of the wrought product was shipped to Shef- field, England, in 1856, and manufactured into high-grade steel. By legislative act, February 4, 1858, the original company was chartered as the Shelby County Iron Manufac- turing Co. "Horace Ware, of Shelby County, together with such persons as may hereafter associate with him," were named as the in- corporators. On March 18, 1862, Mr. Ware sold a six-sevenths interest in the property to John W. Lapsley, James W. Lapsley, John R. Kenan, Andrew T. Jones, John M. McClan- ahan, and Henry H. Ware for $150,000. The company's charter was amended, by act of November 20, 1862, changing its name to the Shelby Iron Co. and authorizing a capital stock of $2,000,000. Another furnace was erected soon after the new owners took charge and the manufacture of first-quality iron contin- ued until the plant was destroyed by Wil- son's raiders in the spring of 1865. During the War, iron to make cannon and armor plate for rams and gunboats was furnished from the Shelby plant to the Confederate Gov- ernment. The armor of the ironclad "Ten- nessee" is said to have been made from Shelby iron. In 1867 or 1868 the plant was rebuilt. Eastern capitalists were interested with the local stockholders in the rehabili- tated enterprise, and it has since been in con- tinuous operation. In 1890 capitalists of New York acquired control of the company, and reorganized it under the laws of that State, retaining the old name.
REFERENCES .- Acts, 1857-58, pp. 136-138; 1862, p. 124; Poor's manual of industrials, 1916, p. 2710; Armes, Story of coal and iron in Alabama (1910), pp. 70, 76, 78 et seq.
SHILOH, ALABAMA CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT. In 1907 the United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy, Alabama Division, independent of any state ald, erected a very attractive memorial of granite to the memory of Alabama troops, who participated in the Battle of Shiloh. The Secretary and Sup- erIntendent of the Shiloh National Military Park In a letter of July 30, 1918, to Dr. Owen, states that "The cost of this monument was $3,000, and for that sum, it is one of the handsomest memorials on this battlefield."
Organizations and officers mentioned in in- scriptions on the Monument are as follows:
Infantry.
4th Battalion, Maj. James M. Clifton.
16th Regiment, Lieut. Col. John W. Har- ris.
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17th Regiment, Lieut. Col. Robert C. Fariss.
18th Regiment, Col. Eli S. Shorter.
19th Regiment, Col. Joseph Wheeler.
21st Regiment, Lieut. Col. Stewart W. Cayce, Maj. Frederick Stewart.
22nd Regiment, Col. Zac C. Deas (Wounded), Lieut. Col. John C. Marrost.
25th Regiment, Col. John Q. Loomis, Maj. George D. Johnson.
26th Regiment, Col. John C. Coltart ( Wounded), Lieut. Col. William D. Chadick.
31st Regiment, Lieut. Col. Montgomery Gilbreath.
General Officers.
Brig. Gen. James M. Withers, 2nd Div., 2nd Army Corps. Brig. Gen. Sterling A. M. Wood, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Army Corps.
Cavalry.
Gen. Bragg's Escort Company, Capt. Rob- ert W. Smith.
1st Battalion, Capt. Thomas F. Jenkins.
Mississippi and Alabama Battalion, Lieut. Col. Richard H. Brewer.
1st Regimeut, Col. James H. Clanton.
Artillery.
Gage's Battery, Capt. Charles P. Gage. Ketchum's Battery, Capt. William Ketchum.
H.
Robertson's Battery, Capt. Felix H. Rob- ertson.
Iron tablets, placed by the National Gov- ernment mark the position occupied by Ala- bama troops during the battle. In addition to the above there is a general Confederate monument to the Confederates who partici- pated in the battle, which was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. This memorial cost $50,000, and was dedicated in 1917.
REFERENCES .- Letters in the files of the Ala- bama State Department of Archives and History.
SHOAL CREEK. A small tributary of the Tennessee River (q. v.) which empties into that stream 199.7 miles below Chattanooga, Tenn. It rises in Lawrence County, Tenn .; flows southward through Lauderdale County, Ala., to its junction with the Tennes- see; is 51 miles long; 831 feet wide at its mouth; has a minimum discharge of 125 feet per second; and drains an area of 449 square miles. It flows through a more or less broken country, and cuts through the Niagara group (limestone) of the upper Silurian formation, the Devonian black shale, and the Lauderdale or Keokuk chert of the lower Subcarbonifer- ous formation. It is not navigable, nor has any project for its improvement been under- taken by the United States Government. Near its mouth, the creek is crossed by an aqueduct 831 feet long, one of the sections of the Mus- cle Shoals Canal.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data In the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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SHORTHAND REPORTERS' ASSOCIA- TION, THE ALABAMA. See
Court Re- porters.
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON. College frater- nity; founded at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, March 9, 1856, by Noble Leslie DeVotie, class of 1856, assisted by Nathan Elams Cockrell, '56; Samuel Marion Dennis, '57; Wade Foster, '56; John Webb Kerr, '56; John Barratt Rudulph, '56; Abner Edwin Patton, '57, and Thomas Chappell Cook, '57. The parent chapter was designated Alabama Mu, and 21 men were initiated before 1858. Chapters: Ala. Mu, 1856, 250 members, sus- pended 1858 to 1886, and 1890 to 1891, and has a chapter house valued at $8,500, erected as a memorial to De Votie, the founder; Ala. Beta Beta, 1870, Howard College, 26 mem- bers, suspended because of antifraternity laws, 1876; Ala. Alpha Mu, 1878, Ala. Pol. Inst., 318 members, suspended from 1880 to 1886; Ala. Iota, 1878, Southern Univ., sus- pended from 1882 to 1884 because none of its members returned, owns a chapter hall, erected in 1908, cost about $1,200, 271 mem- bers. Periodical: "The Record." Colors: Purple and old gold. Flower: Violet.
REFERENCES .- Baird, Manual (1915), pp. 286- 297; the Fraternity Catalogues, various edl- tlons; Manual (1904) ; Wm. C. Levere's History of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, 3 vols .. ill. (1911).
SIGMA CHI. College fraternity; founded at Miami University, Oxford, O., June 28, 1855. Entered Alabama when Pi chapter was established at Howard College in 1872. Chap- ters: Pi, 1872, Howard College, 74 members, suspended in 1885 because of antifraternity legislation and not revived; Iota Iota, 1876, Univ. of Ala., 60 members, suspended be- cause of antifraternity legislation, 1885, and revived in 1914 by the absorption of the local Phi Epsilon; and Chi Chi, 1879, Southern Univ., 23 members, and died, 1882, because none of its members returned. A graduate chapter is organized at Birmingham. Peri- odical: "The Sigma Chi Quarterly." Colors: Blue and gold. Flower: White rose.
REFERENCES .- Baird, Manual (1915), pp. 298- 312; the Fraternity Catalogues; and Manual and Directory (1908).
SIGMA NU. College fraternity; founded at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, January 1, 1869. It entered Alabama in 1874 with the establishment of Theta chap- ter at the State University. Chapters: Theta, 1874, Univ. of Ala., and designated as Chap- ter VIII under the old nomenclature, because of passage of antifraternity laws by the trus- tees, in 1878 became inactive, but existed sub rosa for some years, revived in 1885, chapter house erected in 1916 at a cost of $13,500, 400 members; Iota, 1879, Howard College, existed sub rosa for some years, but now active, 250 members; and Beta Theta, 1890, Ala. Pol. Inst., 210 members. Alumni chapters are organized in Birmingham and Montgomery. Periodical: "The Delta." Col-
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ors: Black, white and old gold. Flower: White rose. Memorial Day: First Sunday in November.
REFERENCES .- Baird, Manual (1915), pp. 313- 321; and the Fraternity Cotalogues (1890, 1894. 1902 and 1911).
SIGMA PHI EPSILON. College frater- nity; founded at Richmond College, Rich- mond, Va., November 1, 1901. Entered Ala- bama with the installation of Alabama Alpha at the Ala. Pol. Inst. November 7, 1908. The chapter was first organized October, 1907, as a local with 6 members, and was known as the D. P. Club. Its membership is 102. There is an alumni chapter at Birmingham. Peri- Col- odical: "Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal." ors: Purple and red.
REFERENCES .- Baird, Monuel (1915), pp. 327- 332; and the Fraternity Catalogues (1911-1915).
SIGMA TAU DELTA. Local college soror- ity; founded at Howard College, Birmingham, September 25, 1916; original and present membership six.
SIGMA UPSILON. College fraternity (hon- orary literary); founded in 1906 at the Uni- versity of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., by the federation of literary societies in several southern colleges. It entered Alabama in 1914, with the establishment of the Attic chapter; and has a membership of 25. Peri- odical: "Journal of Sigma Upsilon." Colors: Dark green and old gold. Flower: Jonquil.
REFERENCES .- Baird, Monuol (1915), pp. 608- 610; and Univ. of Ala. Corolla 1915-1916.
SILOS. The silo has come to be recog- nized as the best possible method for stor- ing feed for live stock. It is of only recent introduction. In 1882 there were only ninety silos in the United States. So far as any record is preserved, the first silo constructed in Alabama was constructed on the Cane- brake Experiment Station grounds at Union- town in 1887. About the same date one was built at the Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion at Auburn. There are now reported more than 500 of different types in Alabama, including the pit, stave, tile and concrete. The largest one was erected by the Mont- gomery Lime and Cement Company in 1917, for L. C. Young, in Montgomery County. Prof. N. A. Negley, in 1914, prepared a cir- cular on "silos and silage," filled with prac- tical hints on the construction, materials, etc.
SINTA BOGUE. A creek in the northern part of Washington County, which flows into the Tombigbee River from the west, a short distance above Hatchetighee bluff. It was a part of the line of demarcation between the English possessions and the Choctaw Nation, and the same line was subsequently recognized as the boundary between the United States and the Choctaws. It was vari- ously spelled, but is a Choctaw word, Sinti, "snake," bok, "creek," that is, "snake creek." The Choctaw treaty which the British exe-
cuted at Mobile, March 26, 1765, stipulates that "none of His Majesty's white subjects shall be permitted to settle on Tombechee River to the northward of the rivulet called Cente bonek (Sinta bogue)."
REFERENCES .- Romans, Florida (1775), p. 329; La Tourette, Map of Alabama (1838), Bureau of American Ethnology, Eighteenth annual report (1899), p. 560.
SIPSEY RIVER. A tributary of the Tom- bigbee River (q. v.) and a part of the Ala- bama-Tombigbee drainage system. The length of the Sipsey River proper is about 145 miles, its width from 40 to 100 feet, and its average low-water depth about : foot. The river rises in Winston County, where it is known as "Nine Island Creek," and runs through the southeast corner of Marion County until it reaches Fayette County, where it becomes the "Sipsey River." Its course for 90 miles is practically due south, and thence to its mouth it flows southwestward, and empties into the Little Tombigbee River (see Tom- bigbee River) 1 mile south of the town of Vienna, which is situated about 343 miles by river from Mobile.
For the first 25 miles, the river runs through a broken, mountainous country, the bluffs varying in height from 15 to 80 feet, being formed of a species of sandstone, inter- mixed with layers of slate formation. Its bed, formed entirely of rock, is obstructed by numerous shoals, and large bowlders fal- len from the bluffs. Besides the sandstone which is of great durability and easily quar- ried, rock suitable for millstones is found along the river, and also an excellent quality of grindstone, as well as extensive beds of coal. At one place the bed of the river for over a mile originally consisted of a vein of coal 18 inches thick. Twenty-five miles down- stream the rock bluffs gradually disappear, and the banks of the river are formed instead of steep soil bluffs. This formation continues to a point within 22 miles of its mouth, where indications of the blue lime rock, similar to that found on the Alabama and Tombighee Rivers, are met with. From this point to the mouth the bluffs are again nearly perpendicu- lar and vary in height from 20 to 100 feet, changing from one side of the river to the other, and originally heavily timbered with nearly every species of hardwood, with here and there a few pine and cypress trees. The river traverses Fayette and Tuscaloosa Coun- ties and forms a part of the boundary be- tween Pickens and Greene Counties.
The course of the river is exceedingly tor- tuous, and it has never been navigable, ex- cept by rafts and flatboats during very high water.
The preliminary survey of the Sipsey River made by the War Department in 1879 was supplemented by a final examination in 1890, but no project for improvement was adopted, and no steps have since been taken toward making the river navigable for keelboats or steamboats.
No development of water power has been undertaken on the Sipsey except by the erec-
William Preston Screws Colonel 167th Reg., Rainbow Div., A. E. F. and regular U. S. Army officer
Julian M. Strassburger Captain 167th Reg., Rainbow Div., A. E. F., killed in action, July 26, 1918
Mortimer Harvie Jordan Captain Co. K, 167th Reg., 42nd Div., A. E. F., killed in second battle of the Marne, July 28, 1918.
WORLD WAR HEROES
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tion of a few temporary dams, usually of wood, for the purpose of running small grain mills or cotton ginneries belonging to individ- uals.
REFERENCES .- U. S. Chief of Engineers, An- nual report for 1881, App. K, p. 1221; 1890, App. R, pp. 1722-1724; U. S. Chief of Engineers, Re- ports of examinations and surveys made under act of March 3, 1879, 1880, (S. Ex. Doc. 42, 46th Cong. 3d sess.), Sipsey River, Ala., pp. 34-38.
SLATES. The slates of Alabama belong to several geological formations, viz, the Tal- ladega, or Ocoee, the Weisner, and the Monte- vallo shales, of the Cambrian, and the upper Trenton of the Silurian; and are found prin- cipally in the counties of Shelby, Talladega, Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay, Coosa, and Chilton. Those of the Weisner formation in the south- western part of Talladega County, of the Mon- tevallo group in Chilton County, and of the Trenton, northeast of Anniston, in Calhoun, are perhaps the best. Slate from these beds was used to some extent during the War for roofing, the Confederate arsenal at Selma be- ing covered with it, but it has not yet been as extensively quarried as might be expected from its quality and quantity.
REFERENCE .- Smith and McCalley, Inder to mineral resources of Alabama (Geol. Survey of Ala., Bulletin 9, 1904), p. 68.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES. See Live Stock and Products.
SLAVERY. To Alabama and to Alabam- ians slavery was an inheritance. Their atti- tude toward the institution, their conduct and practices in its operation had few fea- tures not found in other sections where the attitude was friendly
and sympathetic. Throughout the State were those, not con- siderable in numbers it is true, who felt the same abhorence to its continuance as the most extreme of the Abolitionists, and who dreamed of a time when Alabama would be a free State, with a complete re-organization of the economic system. There were some whose attitude was one of distinct unfriend- liness to the slave from racial consideration. These dreamed of the day when Alabama might be wholly Caucasian, and with the absence of the negro their confidence in so- cial integrity would not be disturbed. The vast and overwhelming part of the popula- tion, however, was friendly to the institu- tion, even including those who were them- selves without slaves. While they had little socially or economically in common with the rich slave owners or even with those who owned but few, several factors served to make and to keep them friendly. In the first place, they too had dreams of the faction and power which the rich enjoyed. Many poor men who came into the State at the beginning had, by hard economy and prudence, risen to places of prominence. Further, the overseers were largely drawn from the class of poor white people, and the position was one that had many attractions. Perhaps a reason as potent as either of the foregoing was the
feeling that wisdom and quality of leader- ship was safer in the hands of the rich and the powerful than with those less favored. Slaves were a part of the population of the State, that is, of the section now in the limits of the State from 1800 to 1865, during forty- five years of which period or from 1819 to 1865, it was one great factor which influ- enced. more powerfully than any one or even many other factors, the political, economic and social through aspiration and conduct of the people. The State came into the Union on the period of agitation preceding the Mis- souri compromise, and they shared in the feeling that an unjustice was involved in the efforts of the North in restricting slavery in the new territories. While they presently acquired in the compromise plans, they were never satisfied with the equities of the settle- ment, and long years afterward they were willing to join their trusted bodies in the endeavor to make the new State of Kansas slave rather than free. The expedition in 1856 of Jefferson Buford, of Barbour Coun- ty, and his associates, had a far more remote genesis than an immediate desire to open up new slave territory. It was a protest, break- ing out in sullen seriousness, reminiscent of the feelings of the older generation who were never reconciled to the justice of the com- promises.
Slavery was to all early settlers, and to the people generally, an accepted fact both of right and practice. They had no doubt of the right or the wisdom of slavery, and yet there was slowly growing up a conscious moral sense of the evils of slave ownership. Many, too, felt that there were defects in the institution as an economic system. In 1823 Israel Pickens became Governor of the State. About this time Colonization Socie- ties were springing up in various communi- ties, and Gov. Pickens was elected as Presi- dent of the State organization. Many men and women emancipated their slaves by leg- islative act. Others removed to the free states in order to enjoy the opportunity of giving freedom to their slaves. Within the decade other influences were at work serving to relax the hold of the system or to weaken it. With all of these influences there was no sense of wrongdoing under the law, and the majority planted themselves firmly upon the declarations and practices of the Bible in defense of the institution and of them- selves. However, the people had no sympathy with the efforts to repeal the law forbidding the slave trade, or to reopen it, although some of the leaders favored the latter. In Alabama the last slaver ran its cargo con- traband into a sheltered inlet of the Coast, only to be captured, libeled and ultimately punished. As time went on the legislature prohibited the introduction of slaves from sister states, a curious regulation since it in a sense violated their own contentions for the extension of slave territory. Their justi- fication was that in the one case it was the carrying of the slave along with and as a part of the property of the owner in the new territory, while in the other case it was traf-
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fic. Still further with the passing of time, the sale of slaves locally was not favored, and keeping the families intact was favored. The forced sales could not be totally regu- lated but even then officers endeavored to secure purchases for whole families, rather than to break them up.
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