Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-08-10
TIE SLAVE TRADE.

ais Is wisely, IN most instances, put be-
yond human discovery. But, for nations,
there is no Judgment to come no great
afler reckoning makes all straight, and
yindcates the ways of God to man. They
must be punished here; and it might be
| neither dflicaIt nor unproductlve of the
best knowledge the Christians faith IN
the ever-waking and resistess control o.
! Providence, to trace the punishment of this
! enormous crime even in Europe. 1t was
perhaps, the slave trade, that lost America
| to England, and the crime was thus pun
| lshcd at It's height, and within view OF the
| spot Wh3ra it was committed. The three
! great slave traders. whom it has been found
| impossible 10 persuade or restrain, are
| France, Spain and Portugal. And in what
! circumstances arc the colonies now placed
for whose peculiar support this dreadful
traffic was carried on? France has total
! y lost St. Domingo, the finest colony in
the world, aud her colonial trade is cy-
phcr Spain has lost ALL Portugal has
lost all. Spanish America, and the Bra
Ills are Seyc ed from their old masters
forever. And what has been the especial
caamitics Of the soycreigns Of those coun-
| tries? They have been all three cXpatri
ated, and tie only three. Other sove reigns
have suffered temporarily evil under the
chances of war; but France, Spain and
! Portugal, have exhibited the peculiar shame
of three dvnastics at once in exile; he
| Portuguese flying across the sea, to escape
| from an enemy in It's capital, and hide its
! head in barbarian land; the Spanish de-
| throncd, and sent 10 display its spectacle
Of mcndicapt and 3ecrepit roy atty through
out Europe-and the French doubly UNI
done.
The first effort OF Louis XVIII., on his
restoration, was 10 rc-esttblsh the slave
trade Before twelve months were past,
he was flying for his life to the protection
of strangers On the second restoration,
the trade was again renewed. Al! repre-
sensations Of its horrors, aggravated as
they now are by the laWess rapacty of
the foreign traders, were received with
mock acquicsccnce and real scOrn. And
where are the Bourbons now?
And what is the peace or the prosperity
Of the countries which have thus dipped
their guilty gains in human miseries?-
The three are still centres Of rcyoluliona-
~ terror: Portugal still covered with the
wreck of a civil war, with Il trembling
throne, a incobin constitution, and 2 bro
ken peoples Span, torn by faction, and
watching every gathering on her hills, as
the signs Of il tempest that may sweep the
land, from the Pvrcnecs 10 the ocean,
and France, in the first hcavings Of
mighty change, which man can no more
define than he can set limits to the hcav-
iugS of an cart quake, or the swell of
dcIugo. Other great objects and causes
may have their share in those things, but
the facts are before mankind.
Crolg'S George ~.
Mason and Djron's Ljae.-The fol-
lowing, from the Salem Gazette, will un-
douhtedly be interesting to many Of our
readers, rs it contains brief and compre-
hcnsivc history Of Division line so often
alluded to by politicians. 1t is the boun-
Diary between North and South-thc line
between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
"This Boundary is so termed from the
names OF Charles Mason and jeremiah
Dixon-.two gentlemen who were appoin-
ted to run unfinished lines in 1862, between
Pcnn'a. and Maryland, on the territories
subjected to the heirs OF Penn and Lord Bal
timorc. A tempo rary line had been run
in 1929, but had not given satisfaction TO
the disputing parties, oIthou' it resulted
from an agreement in 1880, between them
selves. \ decleo had been made in l6l6
by King James, deIincating the boundaries
between the lands given by charter to
the first Lord Baltimore, and those adj
Judged to his majesty, afterwards to
William Penn, which divided the trac. Of
land between Delaware Bay and Chcsa-
peake Bay on the other, b. line equally
intcrScc.ing it, drawn from Cape IIenlopen
10 the 10th degree Of North Latitude. A
degree in chancery rendered the Kings de-
gree imperative. Butthe situation OF Hen
/ lopcn became long subject Of serious liti-
cation particularly after the death of Penn
in IT'S, and Lord Baltimore in ZIG. until
John and Richard and Thomas Penn, who
had become the sole proprietors Of the
American possessions Of their father Will
liam, and Ccclius the original patcntee,
entered into an agreement on the 10Th Of
May, 1852. TO this agreement Of the
10Th OF May a chart was appended. which
aScer'oinad the site Of Cape IIcnlopcn, and
dciineated a Division by East and West
/ Line, running westward from that cape 10
meet the exact middle Of the peninsula.
Lord Baltimore became dissatisfied with
this agreement, and cndcavored 10 invali
date II. Chancery suits. kingly DEGREES.
propricIory arrangements followed. which
eventually produced the appointment OF
/ commissioners to run the temporary line.
I This was effected in 1879. But the case in
Chanccry being decided in 1880, new com
missloners were appointed, who could not
however agroc, and the question remained
| nnCn tLLL lI62. Whom The Inc WIS rlln h,.