Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

of his old master in the Paradise, whither he is supposed to
have betaken himself, the model of an oak tree in frosted
silver, from the branches of which hung, when disposed to
the fragrant weed, the choicest of Ilavannah cigars. The
mournful and terrible ceremonies over, the new King pro-
claimed his policy to be that of his father ; report adds
that he at once left Abomi at the head of a large army on
a slave-hunting expedition."
The slave trade is in full blast again, but I
trust the American people will shut the gate against
the fearful pestilence. We have already too many
negroes in America. We want no more. We
prefer white men. We are fastidious. As England
prefers black people, I hereby, on behalf of America,
beg to propose that the two countries make an
exchange. England has millions of poor white
people which she does not consider worth even a vote.
America values these men, and proposes, by way of
experiment, to exchange American slaves for English
freemen—miners—farmers—operatives. Commence
with five hundred thousand—exchange man for man
—each to be free, but bound to work by Parliamen-
tary and Congressional Acts. Make it an opposition
system. Perhaps the white men will work just as
well in the cotton field. Perhaps the black men will
like the English sun better than the American.
The Daily News thinks slavery is in full blast
again :

"The truth is that, consequent on the policy and proceedings
of France, the improvement and ~,rowing importance of this
part of the coast are now seriously endangered. At Why-
dab large preparations are being made to revive the traffic ;
the roaois.into the interior are again interrupted ; the amount
of palm oil brought down for exportation has in the last
twelve months fallen off considerably ; the tranquility and
prosperity of Abiokuta have been disturbed ; and Kosoko,
the deposed King of Lagos, is making preparations, if not
to recover, at least to destroy, his former capital. At this
conjuncture of alarm and danger, the Admiralty has com-
mitted one of its perverse and unaccountable mistakes by
ordering the Commodore to withdraw from before Lagos the
gunboat which has for some time past afforded efficient pro-
tection to that place and its rising commeree ; and unless
the Commodore and the Consul, with a better knowledge
of the necessities of the case than Sir John Pakingtou seems
to possess, take upon themselves the responsibility of disobey-
ing this order, in a month or two we shall probaby hear of
the destruction of Lagos, the massacre of the European
soldiers and missionaries, and the complete restoration of the
slave trade interest along,. the Bight of Benin."
Slavery in the United States, wrote a distinguished
divine, " is like a rising tide, always on the increase."
Emancipation would cure the disease by ki3ling the
patient. It is not so difficult to dam a stream, as to
prevent an overflow in the course of time. Decision
without inquiry, is no better than inquiry without
decision.

" Ile that is truly wise and ()Teat,
Lives both too early and too late."
I was much amused, when in Calcutta, by hearing
an officer of the Indian army, relating some of his
experience during the celebrated Affghan cam!.
paign hen stealthily approaching the enemy's
camp, it was found necessary to prevent the donkeys
from braying, which was effectually done by tying •
large stones to their tails. The asses, for want a
their proper purchase, became mute, and behaved!
as they should do.. I wish some similar invention,
could be discovered for the Uncle Tom party.
Algiers and Tunis were bombarded before the-
Algerine pirates gave up their Mediterranean
haunts,—the right of search was a failure.
The Musquito fleet, jest before Emancipation Days,
had to he destroyed before Spain would enforce her
treaties on the coast. So if England takes a decided

stand now with Spain in assisting America in pur-
chasing Cuba by fair bargain, she will not only do a
good thing for herself by getting paid hor Spanish
claims, but she will befriend the Spanish govern-
ment, stop the slave trade, and make free states of
Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Delaware, and Mary-
land.
When Cuba goes back to America,. from whence,
to use Senator Seward's simile, she was washed away
by the Mississippi, sand by sand - as gravitation will
compel her to return from whence she sprung—the
northern slave states must become free.
Free labour is a powerful emancipator, and white
men can work in these states—but could not live
under the sun of their more northerly countries---
Germans are even now growing cotton in Texas, to
come here.
Three centuries ago there were no slaves---no serfs
in Russia---no attachment of peasants to the soil be-
fore 1593--but it was a century later, when the
Assiento Treaty left the stain on England, which
" Young Africa," in his able defence, failed to write
out. Like Copperfield, trying to sleep with one e•ye
open—it cannot be done l " Young Africa" defends
England by transferring a part of the crime to Spain,
Rolland, Portugal, and France. Very well. Divide
it among you, if you like—but don't put it off on
America !
From 1680 to 1700, 300,000 negroes were taken
from Africa to America---fifteen thousand per year
---Las Cassas's symßathy for the Indian, substituted.
African slavery. It is estimated by the Abbe Ragnal
and Cocker that to obtain the present stock in the
west, some 10,000,000 have been exported from
Africa, and to get this 10,000,000 to the coast, some
180,000,000 of Africans must have perished to .satiate
European avarice duriuq the past Four Hundred years!
When we remember that one in ten perishes in
war, one in five dies on the passage ! and one in three
in getting acclimated ! we can better understan d.
the magnitude of the statement.
The author of " Twenty Years on Board a
Slaver, " writes, page 86 :
"It would be a task of
manpages if I attempted to give
full account of the origin and causes of slavery in Africa.
els a national institution, it seems to have existed always.
Africans have been bondsmen everywhere, and the oldest
s bear their images linked with menial toils And
ervitude. Still I have no hesitation in saying
fourths of the slaves sent abroad from Africa are
the fruits of native wars, fomented by the avarice and
temptation of our own race. I cannot exculpate any
commercial nation from this sweeping censure. We stimu-
late the negro passions by the introduction of wants and
fancies never dreamed of by the simple native, while slavery
was an institution of domestic need and comfort alone.
But what was 'once a luxury, has now ripened into an
absolute necessity ; so that man in truth has become the
coin of Africa, and the legal tender' of a brutal trade."
Aside from the traffic in human beings, what a
splendid trade England has had in fitting out and
trimming all these slavers !
I am told that Manchester, and Birmingham, ani
Liverpool still have the monopoly. Is Exeter-hal:
aware that the provisions, the fittings, the supplic
for the Spanish traders of our time, mostly are fu
nished by anti-slavery England 9
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