The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-25
AN ADOPTED INDIAN.
For the Union.
THE SLAVE-TRADE.
No. g.

Count Labrador, minister plenipotentiary from
Spain, remarked: That if the Spanish West India
colonies, like the English, had had sufficient num-
Der of blacks, Spain would not for an instant hest
tate TO abolish the save-rade that the question of
abolition having been debated in the British Para-
ment from 1850 1907, their colonies had had suf-
icient time and warning to procure the number Of
blacks requisite for the cultivation Of the soil, and
in fact, had obtained them; and, in proof of this,
Jamaica, which in 1857 had only population Of
$50, 600 blacks, had in 1907 more than 400, 000.n
In confidential despatch to the Duke Of We'll
lington,* Lord Castlereagh asks how England will
be able to succeed IN wrestling from the colonies Of
other nations the advantage they derive from the
possibility Of carrying on the slave-tradei
In his opinion, the best means would be 10 pro.
hlbit the introduction of the products of these for
teign colonesi and he requests the Duke of We'll
lington to breach the subject to Prince Talleyrand
who was very little disposed to listen to it,
Lord Castlereagh again proposed it to the En-
peror of Russa, and submitted it to the conference
of the plenpotentiaries. Those from Spain and
Portugal protested against this coercve proceeding
and threatened, in turn to exclude the products of
those countries that would sanction and adopt it,
School, who has written a history Of the treaties
Of peace, observes, in his eleventh volume, that if
England had succeeded in prohibiting the introduce
ton of the products of French, Spanish and Bra
zilIan colonies, under the plea that they permitted
the save-trade, Europe would have been made
tributary to her India possessions.
After the second restoration, England again in
sisted that France should abolish the slave-trade
and as it was impossible any longer to refuse her
anything, Prince Talleyrand was instructed, ON the
Sd of July, 1915, to announce to Lord Castlereagh
that the slavetrade should forever be nterdicted for
the subjects of his Most Christian Majesty.
This Introduction inserted in the treaty of the
30th November, 1915. In 1916, England renewed
her negotiations with Spain, and, skiifuy profting
by the necessities Of her situation, forced upon her
the treaty of Madrid, of the 23d September, 1877.
By this treaty, Spain consented, for the sum Of
four hundred thousand pounds sterling to renounce
the save-rade at north of the equator, and to
abolish IT entirely after the Goth September. 1890.
Mr. Wilbcrforce, during the sitting of the House
Of Commons, on the 7lh February, 1878. appIaudine
this treaty, said; "That the pecuniarv sacrifice
would be greatly compensated by the Commercial
advantages England would derive from the treatv:n
that Spain ceasing 10 carry merchandise 10 he
coast OF Africa, in exchange for slaves England
would take her place, and distribute the products of
her manufactures, from the Senegal to the Niger
over an immense extent Of territory
Thus IT is evident, that the chiefs of the philnn-
thropic party did not dsdan the commercial adrar-
fages that might accrue to England from this holy
work, and speak language which the President Of
the Board of Trade would readily subscribe to-
On the other side Of the channel on the 92d of
See official documents Of schoell, vol 7, page 90