The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-01 00:00:00

geman" was received too late

ion of a marriage unless it is

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would soon be remedie,
Committee, if the policeman refuses

.. An Old Subscriber"
;(1 b an application to the Watch
again to interfere.
" GUADALOUPE," IRON STEAM-FRIGATE.—This fine
vessel made a most successful trial-trip on Tuesday. We
had prepared a description of the vessel and her equip-
ments, and also an account of the trip, but in order to do
justice to the subject, by treating it more at length, we are
induced to postpone both articles until our next publica-
tion.

Ebe Etbrrpool &"tanbart.

1, 1842

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,opulatior

tna, (Lopatin upon it

regpcl. the prospects of the
emancipated negro in our West Indian possessions!
Granted that he is happy, at present prosperous, re-
moved from every care, satisfied with the culture of
his own provision grounds and an occasional day's la.
hour in the plantation to provide him with clothing or
luxuries, or that he can provide these from the surplus
produce of those provision grounds without bestowing
his hand upon the paid culture of the staples of ex-
port ;—yet the time must soon come when the provi-
sion markets will be glutted, and he will be in want
even in the midst of abundance. We shall have res-
cued him from the slavery of man to hand him over

lta the just, tile true pa

on, in which we must

to tie bondage of his own constitutional indolence. We
shall have purchased—that is the strict and undeniable
conclusion—we shall have purchased some h.undreds
of thousands of human beings, far advanced on the

path towards civilization and the light of christial

truth, for

no other purpose than to hurl them back into

.. .
their primitive barbarism and ignorance ! We chal-

lenge any man, no matter of what creed or opinion, to

.overt our position, that this mus

t be the result of

the adoption of a stand-still policy, and the consequ

surrender to commercial ruin of these noble posses-

But even admitting that by the intervention of some

overruling Providence, the existing population of the
West Indies, ceasing to be producers except for the

supply of their own animal wants, may be preserved in

theii present condition of comparati•c'e prosperity and
happiness ; may not the question be asked of the abo-

—to what important use have you applied the

means placed at your disposal, by the measure of
emancipation, for the gradual amelioration of the con-

dition of the entire African race

Although the

chains have been struck from the. limbs of 800,000
slaves in the British possessions; is there one wretched
African the less toiling in bondage throughout the

world ? Have we realized, or are we in the way to
realize by this measure, the magnificent dream which
you held out to us of the cessation of slavery through-
out the world.? No ! We repeat it—No On the

contrary, you have stimulated—you are stimulating,
day by day, the accursed traffic in human blood ;

have ricetted the chains upon millions of human be-

ings now toiling beneath the burden of tropical la-
bour ; and you are, day by day,
for millions yet unborn !
Except through the prosperity °four West Ind
possessions.,—except from an extensive production of
the staples of export in those possessions,—the mea-
sure of emancipation can have no effect, save one of
serious' prejudice, upon the continuance of slavery in
other nations. What country will pursue a course vo-
luntarily, which is fast desolating the colonies of Great
Britain ? What country will voluntarily give up its
slave labour when the example of Great Britain has
shown them that the substitution of free labour leads
to progressive decay and ultimate ruin ?

forging fresh chains

this nation, when it declares that it will not consent to
the adoption of 'remedial measures to stay the decline
of its own colonies—when it declares, in deference to
the cry of a spurious humanity, that it will not afford
to the suffering planters of the West Indies an exten-
sive supply of free labour—abandons, virtually, the
noblest experiment ever made since the creation of the
world by any great people; and says, virtually, to that
system from which the dealer in human flesh derives
his accursed gains—esto perpetua !

By the arrival of the Great Western, at Bristol, we
have papers one day later from New York, containing,
however, little which is worthy of comment in addition
to the copious summary of news furnished in our se-
cond edition of Tuesday, and which will be found in
our impression of this day. With respect, however,
to the anticipated amicable termination of our differ-
ences with the United States; through the mission of
Lord Ashburton, the New York Morning Herald of the
16th, in a supplement printed for the pacitet, has some
remarks, professing to be founded on authentic infor-
mation, which we cannot resist placing before our

readers

" The north eastern boundary," remarks our transatlant

contemporary,

"is really the only serious point between us

and Great Britain

" The Caroline affair is susceptible of very easy and prompt
adjustment. It is a matter of explanation and indemnity,
and might have been finished by Mr. Fox in half an hour any
time within the last eighteen months. INl`Nab had no auth-
ority for his conduct. His invasion of our territory was an
act of gratuitous insolence, and the British government is
ready to say so—not in such terms of course—and pay for