New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-20
The slave Trade.

a correspondent OF The new ORR Evan ell.t Ut
ders,ood to be brother of Rev Dr. Cheever. the
Editor presents some startling facts in relation to
the extent OF the Slave Trade in Brazil His state
menis are chiefly made on the authority Of Mr..
Wise our Minister TO that country, who II i said
has been engaged for time past in prosecuting an
investigation into that hord traffic Il u said that no,
less than $1,000 slaves were imported from Africa TO
Brazil during the year ending in March last m AmucGH
bottoms The trade has grown bold and bad
ly 10 wear mask Mr. Wise in conversation with the
correspondent Of the Evangelist expressed the opinion
that fhe people Of the United states knew the extent
which this worst Of praces i conducted under their
flag and By vessels launched aud owned IN their tree
Northern waters a law would be passed at the very
next session Of Congress i0rblddng al trade with the
coast OF Africa lie said moreover that every conscen
tiOus American shp-O~ner ought 20 understand that u
be- send his vessel 70 RIO JancirO with Instructions or
permission the captain 10 her chartered for the
Of Africa she viii be 70 be engaged directly
indirectly the slavetrade. either a. tender 20
other slavers herself 20 carry the dreadful cargo OF
miserable Africans. American merchants thero 20 whom
the American Captains c0nslgn knowingly aid and aDct
the slaverade by charierng the vessels 20 consigned
g. them for the coast Of Africa at much higher rate per
month than be got If sent elsewhere; not indeed
FIR any thing that APPEARS the face Of the charter
party be engaged the sayetrade but not the less
for that purpose 10 prosecute tnc trade Oh ooou
American houses are the agents or medium through
which American brigs and barks chartered tor the
coast Of Africa to Manuel Pinto ia Fonseca the noor
Gus great savemerchant of Rio de Janero AFTER max
ing few profitable trips with slaves charter. they are
generally sold FOnseca the slave factors on the coast
Of Africa at Cabinda and elsewhere for three times the
money they would bring for lawful voyages The
American house gets ,. per cent commission on the
charermopey: then y per more they guaranty
IL then u per cent more If employed 20 transmit the
value 10 the owners in the United states. The English
brokers' house. HObkirk, Wreiman & Co. through
which they accomplish these negotiations. gets also p
sgfa. ff.( u-
coas, of Africa with savcdecks. shackes water tanks
and other appurtenances, and with cargo Of ardent
spirits powder muskes. cotton goods, sc and some
times having both American and brazilian or foftu-
guse captain and crew
Having discharged their goods the medium of barter.
and taken board their closely packed living cargOes.
the American Captain and crew. II they had them are
shipped on board brig that has before 10 act a.
Their tender and Brazilian Portuguese Captain and
supplied. if they had them not In the one
case the tender brig 10 Rio Janero either nav
gated by the Americans with them passengers anu
unirequeniy with branded slaves for Fonseca
IN the capacity as passenger FOR augh mat APP
pears she will have performed lawful voyage, ihat-
having only waited upon the savers with some goodsior
purchase money Of slaves and got them ready, and
having then helped the slavers Brazilian POrtu
suese crew who if taken by English cruisers cannot be-
hung like Americans subjects Of Great Britain Ihe
bloody SLAYER then speeds her way through the horrors
of the middle passage silly lands her human cargo
dead than alive a. Cape mo Mangaaibs, or other
places along the coast of Brazil then boldly runs into
ballast MS again Tor Inc dfOclou-
The crueics of the traffic defy conception There J.
tale OF blood In relation American brig name not
given) yet Ia be uniolded. II given on oath by
that the rs night after leaving the east coast OF
Africa with cargo Of $50 blacks. part Of them got
oos from their msnscles. and rose on the crew. But
being armed with muskets and cutlasses the crew soon
drove them below again. and killed number by hrlng
into them after they had cried for quarter few days
after others of the condemned 10 be exc
cufed then hosted up the yard-am chained two
together and shot dead. When two were taken out OF
the hold chained together OF whom only one was TO die
the shackle and 10 time. they chopped on
their victims the ANGLE let the leg loose then
him up TO the yardarm, and finished by shooting him
In this manner murdered forty.six men and one
woman.
Thus the internal business il carried eagerly and
fatally ever and american merchants, kHoic,DQy or
not pdHdcT for and make uhdf gam ucy can by such
detesfab, pmpag. Mr. Wise has written his legal Opln
ion TO Maxwell Wright & Co on their part in the bust
which the laws of his country have declared piracy
warning them and other American merchants against H.
and declaring his fixed purpose TO see TO that the laws
his country enforced and the arspanged banner
ceansed from the blood of this afrocious traffic which
fact il is made shield British cruisers seldom dar
ng to overhaul vessel under the American Tag Amer
lean citizens and hoy too generally from ne North not
scrupng to employ their vessels where they can get
the most pay.
1t seems almost incredible that such revelations
can be true. and yet they come in shape authen
tic as to defy skepiicism. The history of the past
MY years mas utinOu-Udltu utltI iHlPor>OiitH
of putting down the trad in slaves long Slavery
itself is iostercd or tolerated. Slavery creates
a demand for human flesh, which will be supplied
by bad men in spite OF all the laws that can be placed
on the statute books. There are few among us who
would consent to call the foreign traffic in slaves by
any genter name than piracy, and yet thousands OF
citizens regard only without horror, but even
with complacency, that domestic trade in human
flesh which sunders all the dearest relations of life
and is attended with crueltcs scarcely less airocous
than those of the middle passage In what code
of morals is it made a crime to buy and sell the ma
tves of Africa and deed of innocence and honor
to trade in the bodies and souls of men on our own
soil To connive at such legislative enactments as
are designed and calculated TO turn the Northern
Slave States into maris for the sale OF human flesh
and yet mourn over the importation Of slaves from
Africa is to demonstrate the nsincerity OF grief
by fcndish deed