Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-08-13
Grand Total

Grand Total 1919
ONE HUNDRED NINETY NINE
human beings, transported, as slaves,
from BALTIMORE TO the great slave
make, OF .Neqv 5razii, alias, Louisiana,
in The short space oil less than seven
weeks !! Why surely, q repeat ~ we
are OH be African, instead oi the Ame-
rlcan, shore. Can it be possible that,
undet the tQ7vs, and zOithin the jurisdic
ton Of tie United States, the " SLAV L
TKh d L" could be carried on to such
an extent ?-.Neuer -
But, to be serious, ii is an absolute
TACT that the number Of slaves, above
stated, have actually been taken, by sea,
within the period aforesaid, from this
port TO that oil New-Orieans. / will nov
put the question 10 n'y How ci'izsns ::
Do we not keep up the very same KIND
" troDick, BY OUR OWN LAWS, Oh the
n 1eiican coast, that we Condemn, AND
TREAT AS PIRACY, On that Of Air.-
ca? Where is the difference, in princi-
pie, between the purchase and uanspor-
tatIon CT slaves here, and On the African
coast - boldly challenge any man to
shew il. Some have been bought v ith
money, and some kidnapped, n Africa:
and SO they have been here. Certain
persons make it a business tc Garry On
The trsthck in human flesh, in Afric. -
aud So they do here Husbands are
frequently separated from their wives,
| and parents from their children, in Ali
lro--ataJ tkov ber hal b,v,,
regular establishments and strong en-.
closures for the safe keeping of their fel
tered and manacled victims. until vessels
are in readiness TO receive them, on the
African coast:-and we have several 81
inllar establishments in and near this CT
" Yes, the hlghsouled people Of
this country, whose monuments attest
their desotedpess to Freedom, cnie'y
suffer an abo:ninable and guilty traffic in
human flesh and blood TO be carried Oh
under their own eyes! Why does not
| he Ballot Box speak out, IN tones Of
thunder WHY is the Press as "slleni
as the grave ?"-Why have we no, SO
cie,ies in every county, whose business it
should be 10 probe this fa;a! gangrene Of
moral and political corruption, and ex-
pose to public view the purifying mass,
in all its rottenness Our minds arc so
completely occupied in planning and
executing benevolent projects In other
! lands, that we have no leisure TO think
of our own situation. Foreign benevo-
lent operations now engross on: whole
attention, while state OF things, equally
as deploraole as ever cursed nation,
and to remedy which, calls for our unit
! ed exertions, exist among ourselves w g
are fairly playing the part OF the turious
j fan tic, whose eyes were SO continually
| Ii is stated that these were not for safe.
t One OF the persons, by whom tie above
mentioned slaves were transported, has q
Standing advertisement in the most Of our dai
ly papers. the purport of which is, that he will
give cash for 100 more, soon as they can be
had. He is. but one (thorgh the principa
desler) among a number, who pursue the
tee abominable, business regularly, Since tbs
late unprecedented rise in the price Of south
ern produce, these gentry have been very &C
lively employed | have it from good author
ity that four hack loads Of slaves which hat
arrived from the Eastern Shore of Maryland
were taken by some of them from one OF th,
Steam Boats on a .sa6baii-day, not long since