The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-10-05

factory. The last treaty ever maze
for the benefit Of flee labor, was
negotiated by Hon. Mr.. Hill, of But
falo, with Don John, of Portugal, at
the time that monarch held his Court
in Brazil, in 1906 or 8. Under that
treaty, vast and very profitable
trade grew up between Brazil and
the free States. We sent nearly
S1O,00O,00O of grain, flour. pot and
pearl ashes, lumber, and manufac-
lures to Brazil, in exchange for her
sugars, rice, coffee, ect. Either par
ty could terminate the treaty by a
Years notice. Who gave it? The
United States! At whose bidding !?
John C. Calhoun's What for p
The result shows. The market for
Northern goods was Immediately
destroyed, by discriminating duties.
The price of grain, flour, lumber,
pot & pearl ashes, land & labor was
lowered 20 per cent. One manu-
facturer of pot and pearl at Lock
port, told me it destroyed his bust
ness entirely. Hundreds of mer-
chants in Maine, Massachusetts and
New York were ruined, and their
losses thrown back upon the farm
ers and mechanics who had trusted
them. Who cared SIa0cry got its
ends. Henceforth, we must pay for
our Brazil sugar, coffee and hides
with cotton, sent to Europe, and eX-
changed for British and French
goods, sent to Brazil in British and
French vessels. The American
farmer, mechanic and ship owner
might complain of the loss of bread.
But slavery willed it! Shall the
"white slave" dare to assail his
masler?'
Take one more example. A long
series of treaties has secured the adj
mission of slave labor cotton into
England, and France-and through
France, into nearly all Continental
markets. I he last was that of 1881
with France, the real object ofwhich
was covered up by the paltry Gin
demnity" of 5 millions, which gave
it name. What were its terms &?
We agreed TO take off our duties on
French wines, brandies and Silks
Qntemperance came in upon US like
a flood, and the country was drain
cd of its resources to pay for silks
and other luxuries.) France in re-
turn took off her duties on SLAVE La
Dor COTTON. The cotton sent to
France increased nine Jold in three
years! The news the treaty rails
ed the price of cotton 3 cents pound,
in one hour: raised the price Of
slaves in the breeding States from
800 to 400 dollars apiece ; stopped
the abolition debate in Virginia and
Kentucky legislatures revived the
internal slave trade, led to the ex-
port of 100000 victims from Mary
land and Virginia, (of which at least
10000 passed through the National
Slave Markets at Washington,) to
the cotton growing States, between
1882 and 1888, accompanied by the
horrors of sundered families, broken
hearts, and bodily suffering, that
mark this Internal traffic every
where on earth. TO meet the ne
cessities of the slave traders and
cotton growers a horde ofnew banks
were created, ION Northern capital,
chiefly J vast tracts of land were
thrown into the market; the fever
of over credit and speculation en-
couraged to its utmost extent. Cot
ton rose to IS cents a pound
Slaves were worth ~ to $500
apiece in the shambles. The banks
loaned their entire resources, and
private men their boarded treasures
to negro traders and cotton and land
spectators: the South run in debt
more than $500, 700 to the North.
States lent their credit to get funds
from Europe for the same dark bus
mess, and the nation rejoiccd in its
" prosperity,"-a bloated prosperi-
ty, based on the groans and sweat
and tears and blood Of $50, 900 VIC
Tins of the internal traffic in mems
bodies and souls, and 100000
more, compelled to ceaseIess toll in
the cotton and sugar fields of the
South. When was avarice ever
glutted ? Greedy of more gain,
slavery stretched its credit to the
utmost, when, in 1887, the cottons of
India, Egypt and Brazil began to
compete with American blood pro-