On a motion for the Recommitment of the bill, Lord Sheffield divided the House, against whose motion there was a majority of forty-two.
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)"
Thomas Clarkson
Mr. Webster then moved an adjournment, and on the next day delivered a most masterly speech in reply, expounding the whole operation of the intended act in the clearest manner, so that a Recommitment was carried almost without an effort.
"Daniel Webster"
Henry Cabot Lodge
The significance of the message was merely his Recommitment to the policy he was applying in practice.
"The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction"
Charles Ernest Chadsey