The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-26 00:00:00

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To TilE Luiroit oe ftlE FREEMAN

THE SLAVE-TRADE IN BRAZIL

" A faithful witness will .not lie, but a false witness uttereth
lies :—Proverbs xiv., 5.

We commend the followin communications to the SIR,—A. letter, "To the People of Ireland," signed
perusal of the whig defenders ofgthe Brazilian slave-trade.
" Daniel O'Connell," has been addressed to me by name
as minister of Harold's cross church, and I presume,
Is it to encourage such enormities and crimes as are
therein narrated that England is to admit Brazilian sugar? from what I can learn, that it has been sent to all my
We are indeed ignorant of the feelings and determination brethren
Mr. O'Connell asserts in his letter, as the foundation
of our countrymen i 4. they would tolerate a government
which aided and abetted Brazil in atrocities like these.] of his appeal to the people of Ireland, that the " object
BAHIA, Oct. 19.—This accursed traffic is again extend-
of repealers is the :".--
ing at a fearful rate here and on other points of the coast. First—Freedom of conscience.
There are now lying in this port, waiting for the first op-
Second—Freedom of education.
,
portunity to give -the slip to the British cruisers, three Third—Freedom of the press.
schooners belonging to one man alone, a Frenchman, who
The first of these, " freedom of conscience," I peremp-
but five or six years ago had no property whatsoever, but torily deny. I assert that it is opposed to the principles
is now a rich and honodred man here. of the leaders of repeal in Ireland. It is opposed to Mr.
Let me interrupt this by citing a fact I have from an O'Connell's own principles, to those of his bishops, his
acquaintance who has lately been over to the island of priests, and his church, and I propose a direct test of this
Itaparira, to receive his share of three blacks, out of a fact to Mr. O'Connell and to them, by which I shall
venture of some sixty partners. He is a young man of prove my assertion, if he or they will venture to meet it.
very poor parents, his aged mother only being alive, but The second " freedom of education," carries falsehood
for the purpose of being better able to assist her he yen- on the very face of it; for the existing National Board of
tared a small sum (about £4O) on this speculation. The Education is an unprincipled compromise of the British
rich merchant, who chartered the vessel to these young government with the bishops and priests of Rome, who
had previously bought the vessel and fitted her out have been intruded on this unhappy country to corrupt
t a cost of about £1,600; the freight realised the ancient catholic faith of Ireland. and who deny to
rought in some 560 negroes, and took Irishmen the first birthright to man—that of bringing up
)r each; they were vnostly skeletons, their children "in the nurture and admonition of the
When the Lord, by giving them instruction in that holy book,
he told " which is able to make them wise unto salvation, through
m faith which is in Christ Jesus."
~ The third " freedom of the press," I shall test, as far

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as your paper is concerned, by requesting that you will be
ht I so good as to give insertion in your journal to this letter
to Mr. O'Connell, which I enclose, and the resolutions

cb accompany it.

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