Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1840-06-20

~ hs last session. the Legislature VI New Y6sh
enacted d law. tha, every .lavs ~rscspiss Into tbs.
Stats. sud claimed by hi. master. shall he pn,itt 4
to = trial Ivy jury, snd shall not he delivered up u
his ,nsstef. I'LL after shs vifdics of twelve rssn.
pronosneips hind 1 slav. to ,hs person cisimirs
aim. The dxsSn and sfssi ~ shi. isw y sc-
Ahstoss 10 nssJ comment. I. intr,peset n ones
IN indispensable ots,sels II the ieso.esy 81 slsvs
properly In free S.sts. Zone a,oebr, u eM-
jury happens 10 BE- an ahciitinnist. ths fsossietsss
~ bic e1ssd will b. sure 10 pronounce ssaiast the
rights Of the r'sstes, however strong might BE-
the p'esdinss of jasiiss and constitutional ts~.-
The effect wss dosltiess ~fofeseen BY tho ffsmvs.
" The enactment. aud designed 10 f~tus,tate ,bs
as'u'sfy provisions u The constitutions. W. RI
gard The act a. q sefioas blow struck n the paiia-
dunn Of American Utterly, The sou,hrfn STATES
should tesen, The .ss..rion. II such suset.
upon .teit eon.titutop.i t~ii;ilese. zig suffered
to pass nnno,iced. similar enerosei,thsnss viii
follow. until the whole South IL ict stripped snl
naked Of the lights the Con,titutioa has sua,an-
tesd tn be desolatrd, aud 10 be trodjen do~a
under the hoof of fsnatieisn.
origin u negro .Ayoy-M, Bancroft. IN ne
f., volume of bis Interesting History # II.
United States, gives an &C ,oas, of fhe essfy INF.
TIC Of the Europeans In slaves. In The riddle
ages tile v~sniiisns purchased white men, Chris
sians and oihots. snd sold them 10 The Ssfnrens
In Sicily snd Spain. IN England, tbs Anglo
ssson nobility sold their ss,vsn.s a. slaves 10
foreigners. The Portuguese frat imported negto
slave. from Western A,frihs into Europe in l443.
Spain soon enssstA III the %trsfic, and nrgfo
slaves abounded In some place. IN ,hs, kiusdom.
After America was discovefeJ, The Indians Of
Hispani"la were imported into Spain and made
slaves. Tee Spaniafds visited The, sossi. u
North America snd kid"apped Thousand. NJ ,bs
Indians, whom they transported into slavery IN
Europe end the West Indies. CoIutnbus him.
ssif e~nsisved five hundred native A AMERICANS and
sent them to Spain tina. they might be publicly
.. Seville. The pf ,etice Of selling MOTH
American Indians into foreign bohdage coa,inu&kd
nearly two cehturifs. Negro slsvefs rss hSN
introduced into america 10 1901, by Spsnssh
ehaiders, who emig rated with their nessoas.
A royal edics Of Spsin authorized negro s,aveiy
in Ame'ies in isos. King Ferdinand himself
ssn. from Seville. fifty slaves TO labor in tho
In 14l1. the ditec, ,tsfio In slsvss be-
Afiea end Hi.psniolis, vas entointd BY
! royal ordinance. Las Cssss. who had sssn
he indians vanish away HE dew before the cru.
Of the Srsnia,d., suggested The rspeditos
negroes. who .lcns could sadafn. severe tof,1.
b. s'itl fafshss employed. This ~ss III
l6l7.-Ths mistaken bensvotsncs Of Lss Cssss
'stsnJsd the slsts sfsds. which hsd sssn lse.i.
rusty established.
Biz John Hawkins vas the first Englishmah
hat engaged in the slave trade. In 1864. he
transported q large cargo Of Ahicsos II Hispsp-
In 1867. sootbes expedition wss prepared.
Queen Eiississh protested snd .hsseJ In ths
rsfhc. Hs~kins, In snr Of bis expeditions, ss
ire to an Affcsn city. and out IT 5000 ~inhsbitt
n,s, suceseJed IN serving $50. Jsmss Smith, 81
3os.on. and Thon1ss KsSssr, first Lrosshi ntcn
be colonies the guilt u participating In iRs AGi.
an sIavs .fsds. II 1916 ihey imported ! cargo
Z asgfots from Africa. Throughout Ms,sa.
hasoits the cry Of justice ~ss rsiseJ sgsisa them
. nslsfaeso's ard .dap,de,s,s tho guilty men
committed lot .hs offence. snd th@rspifsssn.
Of The people ordered ,hs segioss 10 bs
10 THEFT nsiss county vi Tho public
ba1gs. Al Z lister period there were bo,h iodisn
I'D negro slaves IN Massachusetts,. InyIs1o. .
ship entered Jsniss River and ispdsJ 20
essoes IN ssls. This IL tho red epcrt. Of the
Of negro slavery into vi,siais. 70,
''ny years. tbs Du'eh we's principally ~eonertn.
} in the sisvs trade in the marie, Of vissiota.
Hampsai,s csFeAs.