Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-09 00:00:00

YOUNG AMERICA ON
SLAVERY.

After reacling Thos. Colley Grattan's "Citilittdil nzerica.")

[Continued from Monday's Northern Times.]
Captain Carnot gives an actount of the sale of
slaves, filed out at Havannah,' in 1827
Sales and nett proceeds of 2t7 slaves in Cuba.. 581,000

Outward disbursements at Ilavannah . . $21,000

Homeward disbursements
"'ward disbursements at Havannah,

$6,000

hiih rnoiley to govern-

ment officers

$13,000

Nett profits on tle voyage .. $41,005—:$81,000
Letters continue to pour in upon me as these • •
papers are in course of publication—some congra-
talatory, sOrtte, the reverse. Some say, what ht
has said is true; others that we knew it all befit*.
One man thinks I have no right to compare Eng-
land a century ago, with America note—of course
'not—nor have I done so. Another wants to know
the object of raking up the past ? Simply to in-
form the children of England that negro slavery
was 'an imported article; and 'that England, not
Amerlta, was the imputter! Another asles—Are
you. or are you not, advocating slavery? I tell
'hint*to wait for the coneluding article.
'Nis morning I received the following 'lfrom one
.a 'the leading jonTnalists of 'London :
r " Stop your letters on slavery ! They tare out of
.tplaee zn Evlaml. Take my advice;' it is as un-
lase to &fend slavery in England, as it Teould be to
attack ..liahoaret :in Arabia, or Buddha
_in Thibet.
Besides, what good can you do? I am Pright in this '
matter, depend ‘on it ;so hold your hand." I any
not defending slavery, but America against the
odium England -showers upon her, ,on account of
that curse which she introduced into our country-

Probably thirty thousand African slaves run :1
the gauntlet of the British cruisers last year and
landed in Culni.! But of the seventy-one cargoes
of Chinese slaves, nearly twenty-nine were under: •
the flag of 'England—that-flag which has sheltered
slave ships off and on" for a thousand years,Jhe
battle, kc:" 'Campbell was an abolitionist
The 'Cuban's are wide awake. The Spanish
Goverhor-Generals get as rich in a few years as
the British army and navy contractors ! Slaves
from Africa,-slaves from China, and slaves from
Yucatan ! 'Yes ! Colvin, the American ',Consul at
Demerara, says, " that Cuba stole last year, 1.500
free Indians from Yucatan, and is now working
them in slavery."
Oh, these Cubans ! They,are almost as bad as
the English merchants were a 'half a century ago.
Why don't Enland enforce the Spanish treaty first
and stick Tins in America afterwards ?
Mauritius is a 100,000 hhds..of sugar per annum
colony. She is England's pet producer. No
wonder she prospers.. At the commencement of
last year she had -142,000 slaves. I beg Lord
Brougham's pardon-142,000 coolies.
The Fiiend of China, commenting on the action
brought re British ship 'John Colins, at Hong
Kong, in liarch, 1856, asks--=" Were they really
Englishmen who told the poor Coolies that they
should embark against their will ?—that said,
You have taken an advance, and go you shall ?'
Did Englishmen say to the kind-hearted magis-
trate, ' Tire will give them no investigation ; we
have them, and we will keep them. Say naught to
us of the children's indentures ; we have them—
their flesh, 'the& faculties, their liberties—all are
ours---and yo they shall---away with them !'"
• " Yes," says the Friend of China, " they were
Englishmen`?" Mr. Day says the Coolies were
submissive, ".even when borne down by fever, and
dysentery, and dropsy—they were submissive-,most
submissive.!"
Captain Thornhill adds : " The way I kept them_
submissive, was by stationing men at each hatch-
way, with muskets, loaded, and bayonets fixed."
This is only one picture. A few months before,
I saw the slave-pens at Macao---the revolting,
examination of the slaves at Swatow—and shud-
dered when the captains of the free-slave ships
told me of the number that had jumped overboard
•that morning, when they learned that they had
been betrayed ! The swollen corpses on board
the "-Waverly" at Manilla, some two hundred
and fifty human beings, when the captain took off
the hatches, reminded me of a scene I once saw in
Trafalgar dock, of a lot of cattle taken out of an
Irish steamer that had weathered the gale,
although they smothered the bullocks and the cows!
The sight was sickening. Dr. Arnold says that
the old system of English slivermy was far kinder
than that now existing of hire'd servants. We
might apply the remark more pointedly to the
Coolie trade.
For a thousand pounds of law we do not get an
ounce of love. So the English abolitionists give
the Americans a bushel of advice without a pint

of consistency.
Love asks faith—faith requires firmness, but
firmness must be consistent.
America is not the worst place in the world.
There are dark streams of sorrow even in happy
England, where so large 'a.portion of the working
classes cannot write their names. Gray was not
speaking of American slaves, but English
laboureis, when he wrote :
"But knowledge to their eyes her ample page,
Rich with the spoils of time did nc'er unroll ;
Dull penury repressed their nob! e rage,
. And froze the genial current of the soul."
Lord Morpeth told the young men of Leeds,
a few weeks since,
" Every information that had lately been received from
the tended to show that a crisis was approaching.
The leaven was fermenting, effervessing fast and hot;
the struggle was becoming more fierce, more intense,
more. pervading. liad not some of them lately
.read
instances of treatment of slaves, which transcended even
the usual depth and blackness of horror
"lii the rice Swamp, the sugar plantation, and
the slave mart, where the slave still toiled and
bled, and was sold afresh."
(To be continued)

LADY TRUllB.—This little lady, who 1
u and three months old, weighs but nine pounds and is only
, s now one year
eighteen inehes in height. She is the
William Carrell, the assistant clerk at St. let:" of Mr.
and officer and collector of the Royal Human?:church,
Society,
living at 31, Richmond Buildings.—Brighton ObBerver.
SALMON FISHINGS.—Daring the last eight days the
takes on the Tay have neither been regular nor so good
they had boon from the commencement of the season.s
irowever, on Tuesday they were thought somewhat
better.; 410 even with that improvement, the present
hag turned out the least remunerative week of any this
year. Prices remain the same as formerly...PerthBhire
Advertiser.
TILE REFORM BILL AND THE LIBERAL PARTY.—The
Daily :Yews announces that the second reading w be t
either with a direct negative, or with a resolution
condemna:tory of the proposition to disfranchise the
votelo for
freeholders owning property in towns, who now
counties.' "The Daily News asserts that whatever
.he the
formal shape of the amendment, the vast majority of the
Whigs, Pt-elites and Radicals will be found united in its
support. If a momentary doubt should overshadow the
event of the conflict, it will arise from the uncertainty as to
the number of liberal deserters that may be found.