1. Daniel Webster’s letter to Edward Everett, in part 2 of this volume, charged the U.S. minister to the United Kingdom to negotiate for the return of the Creole’s slaves.

2. The Kentucky politician Henry Clay (1777–1852) and the South Carolina politician John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) supported the rights of slave owners and took the side of the Creole’s owners; see Senate Documents, 27th Congress, 2nd session (1842), 46–47, 115–16, 203–4.