The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-29 00:00:00

Would they wse sugar which hid been cultivated with the
_bale
of men who had been bought?—( A laugh from Sir James
Graham.) He began to think he was a little dull of appraedise.e,..
sin in this matter, and that he VI SS not acquainted with
where:
means of buying and selling. If the lion. Gentleman
sorb
sold all the men on the banks of the Ganges are not bought
soli, he would at once assert that all the men in Java and
Cuba were not bought and sold; so the argument was
worth a laugh, and if it was a joke, it was so bad, thate,,cci°,eioldt
not laugh at It. But if he had any other meanings he et
wish to revctt to it, for they could not say who
sold. He himself was not to be led by any party, nor cv ideal
withold It's support from the Noble Lord. And he cotise
that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel), when
oo•
re
ported to support the Government, had made a speech
heia,.)
calculated to injure them than anything else.—(Heareesiiher
India is steeped to the very lips in slavery, and Mr. ye
ye.,
was bouoguhidt
he
force had said that the dwelling-place and the home of sta
was in India, and that for centuries before the West there.
were discovered slavery had been cradled and nurturedti
elavery formed part of tbe religion of India. He would ask_
Noble Lord the member for Lynn whether lie believed that
these harrowing reports which he had read to the House.
seerd
not considerably exaggerated by the writer of those horrid_
__:lle,
revolting narratives? He did not vindicate the slave 04 be
God forbid that he should. He should deserve did;
struck to death on the floor on which he stood if be
! rde,
lea,
but let them look to the !outlier,' states of North
Ato
sod they would find slavery equally as horrid and
nsire,
testable as that denounced by the Noble Lord 0PP:oot
( He then read from a book published on the subject an acevf
of the cruelty to which not only male but female slaves fed
subjected, and that the grossest immorality was
amougst them in order to propagate their race.) The es° e
also contained an anecdote which he would relate to the e'eereft
A gentleman at one of the watering-places became enalneulte
of a young female slave, whom he married, and carried nea
him to the free states, where he educated her after the fash
of an English gentlewoman. One morning an elderly „°,ll-of
eneouorae,nno
waited upon him, and demanded the woman on the gr°°" bet
rs -
her being his slave. He said she was worth a 1,000 dol'ai 'aids
that he should have her for 900 dollars, which the husbanu gees
He mentioned the circumstance to his wife, who said—"
toes
not only my master, but my father." This was the state ti 4
very which they were going to encourage by a crieoleabiea
duty. He then referred to other nos ;ages of the book, :°,,btlf
stated that the slaves were punished by being fastened l'lte
to a stake, so that they could not move, and flogged wither
instrument, which penetrated into the flesh, and eeir
they in this position received hundreds of lashes on tatty
naked backs. Now he (Mr. Borthwick) believed that In_a4
of these statements were exaggerated, but he belieeed4i„,
that equal cruelty was inflicted in Cuba and Brazil as in i,„f
sissippi at d Alabama. It was elways, however, in the penveoio
the ?eve to purchase his freedom as soon as he could 1,0
sufficient money to effect the purchase. The slave couldtee
charge his master, and be removed, provided he were not ,4
fed, or prevented frosn going to church. That state of th l,
existed in Cuba and Brazils, where there were from 2e bee
3,000 free negrocs. In Brazils no distinction was made
tween the men of colour, but in South America they
not allowed to be near the whites, nor even to vornen
God in the same pew as the white marn of
the grounds he hail stated he must oppose the metreset
the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn. Unless he could e 7,01
the House that the statements he had made about Java ce„
Manilla, and the southern stater of North Arnerbiee
were false, he had no right whatever to ask ego
(Mr. Borthwick) to vote for the distinction leettv,bi,
slave-grown and free-grown sugar. The people of
yore
country were not permitted to grow tobacco, but theY,,2oo
forced, for financial purposes, to pay a duty of i.'l"ree
per cent. on tobacco that was slave-grown.—(rie7l,o
hear.) Their was scarcely a tropical product but or
was prcduced by slaves driven by the whip and d tee
plied by the slave trade. lie was sorry the Noble Lor ys
Member fur Lynn should have lent himself to such a erlfor
that now raised, which he believed was only got Ito,
,eola busting? purposes against the ensuing general ele
If they gave themselves the patience to examine they "theif
find that their arguments and their position were as false • est)
humanity was genuine and real. But it was painful tee
those practices played off upon the people of England, f"r joy
mere purpose or getting up a party cry. If they felt thecory
portance of setting the slave free, they were bound t°,
the
out that principle to the fullest extent. They must no 0-51er
use slave grown tobacco, nor use any of the luxuries, l:see;
procuring or manufacturing of which slave-labour was, or
they must forego the us., of slave-produced luxuries 'stile e
e 100
they were mineral, vegetable, or animal. So much
question of slavery, on \elk!) the Noble Lord seemed ;otrbesti
his opposition. He (Mr. Borthwick) begged to tell hii°,o,itb
while he trusted to the excitement of popular sympathY e 0
respect to the slavery in sugar—a most honourable coull`ceo
doubt on the part of the Noble Lord—he was also bound tlteer
on the people of this country to make use no longer of the ",kao
articles of slave manufacture. Henceforth, on the print 4'o
laid down by the Noble Lord, we must not use slave-r
cotton, tobacco, &c. We must no longer make use of the ei!ja
the diamonds, the rubies, or the other articles in time proef tole
of which slaves were employed. He would no lunge`'uerofo
the House on the question of slavery. While he differed 2.n.,ti00
with the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn upon the eltte;,tiols
of slavery, he agreed with him most cordially upon the el° es§
of protection. He, in conjunction with the Noble Inrll,oell
of opinion that the East and West Indian colonies were :ion
entitled to much more protection than they novr
fbe
j sycd. He was of opinion that it was for 10
benefit of the producer and consumer of sugar food
all parts that further protection should be exte' Id
to our colonists.—(Hear, hear.) Whoever was responsible
re
the evils of slavery, he believed thet the Indian planters
cool r
free from blame. When the local legislatures of their
nies attempted to obtain Acts of Parliament for the tliseoti
he
tenance and abolition of the slave trade, they were told I:514 Ie
Legislature of this country, that the slave-trade was p ro, of
to the exchequer of this country, and that the questirt IPS
humanity should be put back, and that the question 0 e.
abolition of the slave-trade should be deferred. But, netwilb, 31
standing all that, the planters of Jamaica had suleserree of
60,000/. in the course of twelve years for the emancieal,'°o". to
17,000 negroes. Notwithstanding their efforts to ane,ilk°,,t, of
the
ee
feltcon Britishds
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em
Legislature
stt
ihhaeet
uNsrleoa
Noble
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on
to the moral and physical condition of the people
lheese'Li mnwr dicswohnoe sus el
lid' aubdeenneoet doingob e et
h.
ne
carried
let;
by •eaeourai
eared
an importation of free labour—(Hear, hear)--and be try be
that when he went into Committee on the resolutions me in
had prt:osed, he would not abide by the figures mentions
them.—( Hear, hear.) He trusted that a differential eetiV,
of 9s. 3d. would be continued in favour of our West Int% oaf
colonists.' He trusted that the rent serv?e,
Noble Lord would cons?.
o,
well before he consented to remove all protection from the 1410
ducers of sugar. He was sure that free labour was in itseL et'
much cheaper commodity than slave labour, and by enur;.‘t
raging free labour they would undoubtedly lessen, if 1100
degree, the present extent of slavery, and teach a ese Clef'
of humanity to the world, an.! free themselves from
th
to
cube which would otherwise attach to them.
The Marquis of GRANBY said he was anxious t ° gtOntbe
the House the ground on which he should give his vs g
present oecasion, and he would do so very shortly, hi 'eaeont"",
believed that the House was prepared to go to a divi'sit e,
question that night.—(Hear, hear.) At the same
could not but regret the late period of the session at to hi/el-fear;
great question had been brought forward for discussions
hear )—and he regretted that fact in a particular mane r fee
hearing the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet the Mee
Tainworth on the previous evening—( Hear, hear)--be
,eratolf
thought it was a speech that certainly was in favere Nob
amendment which his (the Marquis of Granby 's 'ejoe,el°
Friend bad moved. It was a speech against any °ppm .;eeta,,';
the present Government ; hut the Right Hon, Gem
stated, that in consequence of the present state of par' leeco'r",;
was enabled to give effect to that speech, and vote In -at tr,,,-
ance with it. At the same time, he wished to 52 my give
vote which he (the Marquis of Granby) was abm lot enter
was not in consequence of any hostile feeling which he eoefe,
tained towards the present Government, but rathe rin re
quence of the dislike which he had to the present n rem e ',-,00,`"
( Hear, hear.) He was obliged to vote against th is rtio
upon two grounds— upon the ground of protecti 00t'es'ef
colonists, and also upon the ground that he
this measure would increase the slave trade.— i---1011%
" Hear, hear.") Ho would consider those two ftl'e°lle''
together, because by so doing he thought he should om We tit be,
of the time of the House—he should consider them tog; It bcie, asee
cause he thought that they were intimately connec; forgo,
could not be well separated. Protection was necessams
colonists in consequence of the legislation of that Hotreee• ft• b°
gislation which was directed against the continuance'' 101
slave trade—( Hear, hear.) He should like to know v 100
constituents of this country—whet the nations of the' 000
woulo think of their conduct, if they, who at the time' sr
the interests of humanity and the interests of our colonise. 00
peered to be in opposition—they who said that in their ori hers
the interests of humanity must be considered Lefore all °t coo'
—( Hear, hear)—and that the interests esf the „If t4„,11
sumers of this country were against that ine
and that they must pay a tax of 00,00,h-, ,11
to maintain the iuterests of humanity—(:Hear, se,
—that the same parties should now eel no for-beeP
and propose that that very slavery, for the suppress °I. 'cr,-
so much had been done, should now be encouraged m". 1%;
possible; for that would, in fact, be the resultofihe peoret-etl'
of the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Gov erntneeeto
(Hear, hear.) Ile would ask them whether them conatitmeedie
of this country and the nations of the world would not ell
e.'
their conduct to be riot merely inconsistent, but nue uniusholP
(Hear, hear.) For, the purpose of making sugar , about a bite.
penny a pound cheaper, they proposed that all the 1 about's'', lee
had been consumed for the extinction of slavery, as vvell°,oeft
20,000,0001. tax, should be set at nought. The oul by erg"„
et),
which he had heard, and which he thong ht v'eotea
of time name, was that because we admitted slave • re?
ee were 'pi
coffee, slave-grown copper, and other articles, w
fore bound in consistency to admit slave-grown au gar' tbo
he did think that there was a vast difference- betwe-eoee
production of those articles and the production of slavel
sugar. But that he thought was well known to the Hons;fe
he would not trouble the House with dwelling 011 that y
ment, but he would take the opportunity of referrE g ti.bol. for
the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the 111 en'',lo the
Tamworth, delivered last year on the question of faire ererh,
manufacture of sugar.—(Hear.) Supposing it wer eti °fee" :t'
slavery employed in the manufacture of cotton, &re., "„-- l'e
in extent to that employed in the manufacture of au gee'Ll
contended still that the argument, that because eve
wrong in one instance we were to do wrong in tan ()Witt"' the;
the most extraordinary argument that was ever mat le ;"o 01.;
House.—( Hear.) They had often heard that the firm o°l
wrong direction was very bad, but he had new '
heard that because we had taken that step we sl toineu„--eed
the whole flight.--( Hear, hear.) Surely the Nc
not prepared to maintain such an argument es tba;;eetlit
people of this country would, however, most certainkV, ant
The argument of the Noble Lord as to a man ante:'-eset
honest neighbour he also held to be equally wreing; ezineariblA
was the strangest argument which he (the Marquis of e",„ 1,01
had ever heard. Was that the conduct which tht Non" 0 tb;
at the head of the Government was prepared tab ael‘"3,rset,,e
most moral and philanthropic country on the earth" °Toe tr,
Ile considered that the Noble Lord had failed to; ceovieceel
House that they would not facilitate the slave-tratde by urged
;been l
ting slave-grown sugar.—(Hear, hear.) It had fail„'
„,
that all their endeavours to repress the slave-trade -Ree,eetiees
and that they therefore ought to give up further .ebt tvit_a
but such an argument he was convinced had no eresesoderr
eon for
any Member in that House.—(Hear, hear.) He ,O't'her
that after the statement of the Noble Lord the veleeee coat
Lynn, which set forth the increased supply which, t:neleet;
obtain from the East and West Indies, by proper nee?.
it became their duty to give a further trial to protedre-el ire;
Hon. Member for Evesham had insinuated that to in tee.
actuated by a desire to get up a cry against slaveleasly
country ; he was of opinion that a feeling did exist,tete tes°l"
the country against slavery, but he begged to repu
e°
th. he
an intention which was most incorrectly
o'B attributed to t of t
Mr. OSWALD considered that some settlena!nripo flag
question was most earnestly desired, and, rename:e serueve
protection had been withdrawn from agriculture, he
tit
opinion that they should be prepared to do awaY support
.!.ot
tection of every kind ; and, therefore, he could not fieeme
emt,
amendment of the Noble Lord.—( Hear, hear t
'Mons -°t the
prepared, after the country had given twenty r
_wee sioe,,
tinguish slavery, that they should further tax teller entieavalcie
rate of two millions sterling annually in aus "
WOllO bel
And it was quite a mistake to imagine that they by lot
ha the elei 7heeY
to affect the fiscal arrangement of other countries ate
meat
of their own.—( Hear, hear.) They
had done had not mitigated the evils of the Y look t
of a most distinguished advocate of the slave,
s st
trot :fliesnverarY;
and he was therefore of opinion that they ranee
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other way to banish slavery' than those of the o°.

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