Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-09-04
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ty In Parliament, indeed, their voice Il
but the repetition of whisper.
| Not asingle slavs-ship saIis from Scot.
fish port.
The slave trade had been attempted 10
be defended by appeals to the authority Of
the Old Testament. The existence CT
sl1Jery appears, indeed, to have been toIe.
rated among the jews bu, where is the
authority for any thing Ike, TIE slave
trade Is it in the following express lava
" And he that cferielt a man and, sebeM
him, or if he. be found in. his hand, he
sliqa surely Be iis.f 10 death" Exod. xxi. ls.
The house OF Commons took III Of
computation one year. They passed
resolution, that the slaye-trade should be:
abolished at or before the end of a lew
years. Afterwards they threw ont MIR.
| Wilberforce's bill, and passed law, for
regulating the sfot0age of hunas cargc es.
The merchants had szpoyn Shat this law
would be ruiBous 10 their trade vet We
stu see their trade fiourlshing il The face
of their PERFUMES. We still see SO GOO
men, women. children. ard infants, year
! alter yeas, stolen, transported, sold, and
diSpe:heI smoog the West Irdia Planters.
Archdeacon Paley justly observes, that
" the siave-trsde destroys moro in year,
than the fnquie;gsan does in hundscsl orr
perhaps hath Goue siaoe ske 81, 5 b. =
Such beingthe case, ne rrslT All our
pnblIc yIrtuss,--we msS coDgfasi them
with the crimes of the C1csican Bravo,
I'VE may compare the erect spirit OF a
British, Legislature with Athe yermicuiar
ssrsiliiy OF what is called (s,fahge prosi-
tution ofianguage i)ihe Senate OF France:
But, aIss. when we think cfihS slave trade,
cur i5aGiic virtue requires all the deformi,y
CT the French soil Ia set 1t of. Bonaparte
deserves no douht,. to- be ranked among
the nsoss alrocious class OF murSlssers,
since 1isison is sometimes his-instrament
witness ,ToussaiDt's fate. Bot, are We
much better! GuiEea-esp,aiss, heavy l.
rons, apprentice-sa rgeeisss scourges, live
Goals, thumb-scrcNs, felid air---lhese are
some of the instruEs=p,s with which cur
commercial execu,ioneis commit their re.
gulated musders. Mos, merciiul C.Aillo-
tine how hast thou been calunniaiea.
caiuEi.' ssea, TOO, by the owners nf Hose
FEARING sceGslds which fravcrse ne crfan
III quest cf tteir victims; these * ntl,con.
strucled arks into which every Specie OF
heman snisSry-ss crowded. AID who are
the owhc rsse tnese trrTnent'tfs eysslsfts
Very hopotabsc men; men ~ aess tsio.
trough merchants men who litf a of
character row ard hen when il is chesn,
and especially When II is sold by that spe.
I cIes offauciion called SAB criissior men
! who with one hand pot ,housand pouhds
! into their pocket, (thc moderate psofts Of
a slaving trip while with tie o1her lhsy
subscribe their fits or their hundred gL,-
nea for. FF,f, ~
TINS manner they compound with pibiis
opinion and public opinion, when dazEled
by the spendor OF wealth, j. eaeiiy deceiv.
ed. IL thus happens, that these ca!caiafii.er
philosophers, who by a ch=nico CONNER
cial process, convert the blood and bones,
OF the Africans into silver and gold, are
very we'll looked upon in society. 7Aeu
do not with their own hands distribute al
cohol and gun-powder for fomenting the
petty wars Of the Africans. They do nor
stand by the mock trials for -y;tcAe,of,--
Thy do not hold up a purse 10 the face OK
the predetermined Judge. They are no,the
drtu0t bidders at these judicial yer ,ues.
| Ihey do not tare the son from The pa4ent.
1 No; their agepis seize upon 6olh, for tie
imputed Crime nf either. 7heg never rave
tossed he corded cap,ives INTO the bilge
water Of the long -noa,. my do 10, bolt
the feltefs that couple thosah,e conrsBi-
ons OF despair. They Go not bfardish ts
: scourge, nor do thy pickle the lsc rat a
body Of he obdnralely resolved sui, De.
, No, no--fbSy only hear OF such lbi = /;
they only furnish the means of &c. ryng
on he bnsiaessi they only poke j pro-
hts, when The business is done.
Let he refr0cfiag- house of con mons OF
the year 1901, think Of these thingss
And ye were now turned, and had
done right IN my sight, in proclaI1rg
very man liberty TO his reighbor; and ye
had made covenant before me IN The
house which Is called by my name"
But ye tarHed, aud poliu "a ny name
and caused every man his servant and
very man his handmsid, whom he had 81
az liberty at their pleasure. 10 return, an,
brought lhem into sshicclcp, 10 lie mt
you tor servants and 20, handmaids"
fherslore Thus sith the Lsnl,
have not harkened Unto me 10 pruclsiFa,n