Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-19
ITO be Continued !
The African Slave Trade and Texas.

BY treaty between Great Britain and
Spain for the suppression of the slave
trade, concluded in 1917, the British gov
eminent was authorized to appoint COM
missioners TO reside in Cuba, who, with
Spanish commissioners, were to form a
court for the adjudication Of such ships as
might be seized with slaves actually on
board.
The British commissioners from time
to time make reports to their government,
which are laid beford Parliament, and pub
.lished by their direction.
The following are extracts from re-
port, dated LIST January, 1886
Never since the establishment Of this
mixed commission, has the slave trade Of
the Havana reached such a dsgracefu1
pitch as during the year 1885. BY the
be seen that so slave vessels have safely
arrived in this port during the year just
expired. In 1888, there were 81 arri JaIs,
and in 1884, So but 1885 presents
number, by means of which there mus;
have been landed UPWARDS Of $4,000 ne
groes.
In the spring Of las. year, an Ameri
can agent from Texas purchased in the
Havana $50 new Y imported Africans, at
270 dollars a head, and carried them
away with him to that district Of Mexico
having first procured from the AmerI-
can Consul here, certificates Of their free
dom. This, perhaps, would have been
scarcely worth mentioning to your lord
ship, had we not learned, that within the
last six weeks, considerable sums Of mon
ey have been deposited by the American
citizens in certain mercantile houses here,
for the purpose Of making additional pur-
chases OF boZal negroes for Texas. Ac-
cording 10 the laws Of Mexico, we believe
such Africans are free, whether they have
certificates Of freedom or not; but we
doubt much whether this freedom will be
more than nominal under their American
masters, or whether the whole system
may not be founded on some Ian Of snug
Cling them across the frontier of the slave
states of the Union. However this may
be, great impulse is thus given TO this
Illicit traffic of the Havana and 1t is not
easy for US 10 point out 10 government
what remonstrances ought to be made on
the subject, since the American settlers IN
Texas are almost as independent of Amer
lean authority as they are Of Mexico
These law ess people will doubtless, more
over, assert that they buy negroes IN the
Havana with a view to their ultimate
emancipation. We thought the first eX-
pertinent to be of little consequence-but
now that we perceive fresh commissions
arriving in the Havana for the purchase
Of Africans, we cannot refrain from call
ing your lordship's attention to the TACT as
being another cause of the increase OF the
slave trade in the Havana"
The foregoing throws light on the
following recent article in the Albany Ar
gus:
1.-The fate Of Henry Barrow, late OF the
Commercial Bank of this city, had been
at length definitely ascertained. The
agent sent out by the bank has returned
and states that Barlow died at Marianne
near Columbia, in Texas, on the 3Oth o
June last, of the fever of the country, al
ter an illness of about four weeks. ne
had purchased a farm on the Brassos'
/ and. in company with native OF tn'
: country. had commenced an extensive
plantation, and sent $4,000 to Cuba J0'
, the purchase of slares.
l And, we may add, the whole Statement
t throws a light-a baleful llght-uPof
e what is so falsely, so profanely called,
' struggle for freedom in Texas,-ED' N
Y. AN.