Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-03-13
On the northern shores Of the M.diter.

On the northern shores OF the Mediter,
ranean, thers IS 10 state, except those
winch lave named, whose colonial poll.
requires the labor Of Africa to sustain
What the United States may hope TO
fec: in the new world, il must he left to
England to accomplish ia the old, where
ser influence is predominant and CONT
aued peace yet favors every effort OF hui
aanitY to improve the condition OF our
ace. Great Britain cannot but perceive
ne ineficacy OF those mixed courts on
which she has relied to give effect to her
avs and treaties for the abolition of Ibe
,lave trade, and, above all, that her pre-.
sen, system; complicated and difficult OF
xecr,ion in peace, must be exposed TO
great arrangement, If not abandoned, in
war. She cannot but prefer to it the sub
.titute offered by our resolution, which is
n i,s character as simple, as 1t must prove
u its operation, effective and which will
endure until its purpose, the entire aboli-
ion of the African slave trade, is accom-
pjished.
In concluding, said Mr.. NJ. perceive,
"
what / had intended to say; and what
have uttered, with feeble voice, under
circumstances which greatly tended to i'm
pede my thoughts, as well as my speech,
has, tear, doue but little justice TO the
nOblest theme that ever engaged an ad'
vgcate.
Should this resolution fail, il will be a
source OF deep aud lasting regret to me
that have ven ured TO submit II 10 the
judgmen, OF The house. call, therefore,
upon my friends rom Massachusetts and
PeDnsylv AHA. and upon my colleagues,
{ Me.srs Gorham, Hemphlll, and Floyd
who nave hitherto co-operated with me in
this sacred cause, moi 10 allow il to sink,
through any inability to sustain it. i'm
plore the humanity OF this house to up.
hold it | demand il OF their Justice.
MIR. WRIGHT said, he rose To aid his
honorable friend from Virginia, Mr.. Mer
Ger, in bis noble effort to put stop to the
African Slave Trade, that odious blot on
all the nations concerned IN It. 1t will be
recollected, said Mr. w. that, at the COM
mencemeDt OF the present session, l insist
ed that that part Of the presidents mes.
sage, that related to the African slave
trade, should be referred TO select com.
mitIee, with directions to make an early
report, that the subject might be brought
before US 10 a tangible shape. This reso>
luton goes to request the president to en-
deavor 10 effect, by negotiation, this great
object and, by a convention with the ma
tions that can be induced to ag.ee TO IL,
to make it piracy, as we have done. Al
though, sir, this resolution aulhorises the
president to adopt any measure necessary
to efec, the object, feel it due TO the ad.
mnistraiion, who feel deIicacy on the
subject Of the right OF search, to propose
10 add to the resolution" and that We
agree to a oualIhed right OF search " Sir,
this Congress. ought by The adoption OF
this amendment. to take uDan themselves
the responsibility Of This measure by their
positive opinion, and leave it no longer
subject of doubt what is the will OF The
American people Sir. with what pride
do we look back on ourselves, even TO the
Of the government, when,
by an article in that haiiowed instrument,
we agreed to prohibit this immoral tratnc,
after;thp year eighteen hundred and eight;
and with what pleasure have we seen The
Of Europe adopting our PHI
lanthropic policy, and tresdlng IN our loot
steps and let me ask, what must be the
feeling, of those patriots who have exam
ined thi. subject and have seen our 60.
vernment retiring from this qualified right
OF search, the only possible mean., in my
Judgment, to effect the objects This, sir,
has been agreed 10 by several OF the pow
ers of Europe, not less tenacious OF their
rights than we are, but our government,
recollecting the claims Of Great Britain 10
have feared some collision
might arse in the exercise OF this right,
and have as yet declined it. | therefore
feel anxious that we should take on Us that
Sir, II must be recoilected
that eighty thousand African. are annually
victiDaied to bondage, and they and their
offspring consigned to endless slavery
and that two hundred free blacks, on the
river Sierra Leone, have been captured
and sent into slavery, although sent there
to be governed by themselves; aud it is
said that fifteen thousand annually are
Struggled into the southern states directly
or through the Spanish provinces. This,
sir Is the horrid practice Of the case and
two several committees of this house have,
al the last session and the session prece.
ding it. reported that 1.-THE president OF
the United States be requested to enter
into such arrangements as he may deem
suitable aud proper with one or more Of
The maritime powers of Europe, for the
effectuai abolition of the Atriaan slave
trade" THIS resolution was proposed in
the session ending 4th March, 1891 /; and
here let me ask your attention to the +.
dnburg Review, of Oct. 1921, page 80.
The Immortal honor which the Americans
have gained by their former exeriions a.
gaiust the African slave trade, augmented
by their recent enaciments, CHASING it a.