Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-17
A New Horror I'm the slave Trade.

connection with the slave trade. Il will |
be read with aslonishment even by those |
who are most familiar with the history OF
the most detestable traffic that dsgraces
the human race.
The statement is placed in our hands
! for publication, and we are willing TO be
responsible for its literal truth. The writ
er visited town near the mouth of the
! Gaboon river, where he found slave lac
tory and four hundred and thiny.two
slaves. He SAYS:
There was one company which par
ticularly arrested my attention and affect
ed my heart How they came 10 be chain
ed together, | cannot tell, unless their
keepers, yielding 10 what they supposed
an innocent but unmeaning desire. allow
ed then to be drawn together by their
sympathies and misfortunes. The com
pany to which aIlude was made up evil
IDENTIFY Of nursing mothers, who had been
bereit OF their children. What had be-
come OF their infants, was known perhaps,
and disregarded by their owner But mol
so with them. Their counlenances be-
spoke anguish and bitterness of spirit,
which cannot be described They We're
heatheR mothers, but the fame Of maternal
affection had been enkiuded in their
hearts and NO calamites or mlsfortunes,
however overwhelming, could exiinguish
| it.
"When infants are born in The barra-
coon, or when mothers who have .hem at
| the breast, are brought there to be sold,
4 ipE ~ =
keep them in the barracoon, and next to
impossible 10 transport them across the
ocean, are SUBJECTED 10 a premature and
Oiolent death. speak advisediy when |
affirm that this is common place occur
renee in the slave trade, and vas upon
inquiry, credibly informed that such had
been the case with many Ct the mothers
two whom | refer. The practice then, Of
4 immolating infants, is common In West.
ern Africa. Not by the aborigines, for
they regarded the practice as unnatural
and cruel in the exlreme-not upon the
shrine Of a blind and supersitious idola-
try, for the idolatrous creed oil the African
has never reached this climax of absurdi.
~ and wickedneSs. |, is done bv white
men-lhe nominal represent ,tives OF
Christianity; and that purely TO crafty
an Unsuitable avarice."-N. Y. Observer
AccIDENT.-The draw bridge, one
mile f.om Chester, Delaware, broke on
Friday, while the cars were passing
Two OF the cars came together, and one Of
them was somewhat injured, but no per-
son was hurL-N. Y. Spec.
! SLAVERY IN THE BRlTIsH EAST Is
DIEs.-Great Britain seems 10 be max ny
progress in the work Of aboIishiug slavery
in her East India possessions. ORDERS
have been issued for the abolition oil slave.
ry in Penang, Malacca, Singapore and the
Province Of WELLESLEY A similar move.
ment has been made by the East India
Company's Government.
The number Of slaves thus cmancipated
by these two processes, is stated by cor
respondent Of the Journal Of Commerce,
at tUeLre millions The number Of slaves
in North aud South America, and the
West Indies, is estimated at about six
millions W. Chronicle.
SKILL IN MANUFACTURES Wool is
] at present so cheap, and lie manufacturers
5 | in Massachusetts, so skliful, that they
i make excellent Mouseline de Lame, j. e.
: wooden muslins, for cts. per yard. Pray
1 tell what do such men want Of Tariff
| Press
' A tariff Why We need it TO keep up
: slavery in Louisiana, by doubling The price
E OF sugar; Ito keep Brazil and India cot
9 Ton out of our markets to pay FLORIDA
/ war bils;-tp pay $4,000. 900 a year, IN
e time Of peace, for warlIke purposes, chief
/ ~ 10 supper: southern gentlemen, in the
/ army and navy and above ALL 10 prevent
e The identification of the interests OF The H.
e boring classes OF the free States with those
]. Of Europe, by having open markets for
/ our produces, in England, France, Spain,
D Italy. Are these sufficient reasons &
! Albany Weekly Patrtot.
: There are 1000 lawyers in New York
20 in Rochester.
N. B.-Vice and crimes in the same
" proportion
HAIL STORM IN New JERsEy.-The
Newark Duly Advertiser says the ice tell
! in lamps the size of pigeons egg. for
!; fifteen minutes, on Thursday, 27th ult.,
at Hanover Furnace, Burlington Coudly.
The windows of the place were all brok-
en-, and the buds were stripped from many
of the trees.
b The wheat crops in Western New
:. York, it is said, look very promising
The long continued and deep snow, the
past winter, has done them good.-Asylum
A Journal.
!. DREADFUL AFFAIR-A Mr.. William
a Foster of Georgia. was lately murdered
e by one of his slaves. named jack. whom
a be had bought in Halifax county n. G.
{, While Mr. Foster was asleep, Jack slruca