The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

EVI 41NG EDITioN.

A "r a SPECIAL MEETING of the COM-
MITTEE of the BRITISH and FOREIGN ANTI..
SLA. VERY SOCIETY, held at 27, New Broad-street, on
the sth May, 1841, it was unanimously resolved—
That this Committee have heard with deep regret, the an.
rnouncemeet lately made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
•of the intention of her Majesty's Government to lower the
Customs Duty on Foreign Sugars, whether the produce of
free or slave labour, to such a scale as will admit of the impor-
tation of a vast quantity of that article into the British market
for home consumption, especially from Brazil and Cuba, in
which countries the atrocious system of slavery is maintained
in all'its rigour, and the revolting traffic in human beings is
carried on to an enormous extent.
That the inevitable tendency of such reduction in the duties
will be to stimulate the growth of sugar in those countries, by
innterially increasing the demand for it in this, by which the
'extent of the slave trade will be increased, and its unutterable
horrors aggravated and prolonged, while the condition of the
wretched and degraded slaves already in bondage will be ren-
dered more grievous and intolerable than ever.
That as the Legislature of this country has declared the
slave-trade to be piracy, and the system of slavery to be essen-
tially unjust, and has sanctioned a vast outlay of the national
treasure in the suppression of the former and the abolition of
the latter, in the West India colonies, it would be flagrantly
inconsistent, directly or indirectly, to promote, extend, or
countenance such enormous evils, or to seek an increase of
revenue from such an iniquitous source.
That the Cenimittee would therefore urge upon the Friends
of Humanity, both in and out of Parliament, to offer the tno-t
strenuous and decided.opposition to the measure proposed by
Government, in so far as it may affect the Article of Sugar,
the.growth of slave labour, as a great duty which they owe to
the Principles of universal justice and benevolence, and, as
they firmly believe, to the best interests of their country.
G. W. ALEXANDER, Chairman.

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