Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-06-27

From the " O. Bulletin.
HE British East and West India
Slave Trade.

ARe British East and West India
Slave Trade.
The following extract from d recent num-
Der OF the Jamaica Journal, gives the latest in
teliigence shat has been received of the pro-
gFe's OF this new branch of commerce. The |
AEatflc Is carried on under the special patron
age OF the British crown, being part of the
system by which that Government, while pro-
tossing to bend all its energies to the eradica-
ton OF the Slave trade. seems, il fact. but
striving to obtain a monopoly of it for her own
| people and colonies:
"Coolie Lmmigration.-The Blundell, Captain
Robert Hunter, left Calcutta on the 10Th January
last, having on board 27l emigrants for Jamaica.
hese consist of 206 males. 20 females, Is boys
UNDER IL years of age, girls under the same age,
/ ana 10 infants under 2 years of age. Among this
. number, 1t Is believed there are or e 'Sdars,
who. having already been to the Maurtius and can
speak the French language, are expected will be
found useful here as they have already served on
Sugar plantations, and will be able to instruct the
others more easily than any other class of men
could do. The Lord Hungerford also sailed the
same day for Demarara. having on board $50 emf
grants for that colony. The difficulty of obtaining
vessels at Calcutta to convey emgrants to the West
Indies, was very great, owing to the unusually high
rate of freights to England.
"There Is no prospect Of obtaining elnisrants
from Madras this season.
i In describing this traffic as the opening of
new Slave trade, We have not used a harsh
er phrase than is applied to it by many OF the
English people themselves; those who are re-
ally sincere in their desires and efforts Chow
ever mistaken In the means they use) to NELL
f crate the condition Of the servile races, are
accordingly disguised with the shocking hy-
pocrisy that displays itself IN the conduct of
, the Government, pushing its pretended zeal
for the destruction of the Slave trade, even to
the extent Of violating good neighborhood. and
transgressing the laws of nations, while it
surreptitiously introduces and encourages the
same traffic in another shape. There is great
virtue, no doubt, in q change of name; but
the real antslavery men of Great Britain are
not deceived by the transmutation Of the obi
GUS and condemned epithet of ''Slave trade, -
into the Modified appellaton Of "immi grant
transportation" whether the ''immi grants"
be Africans seized by her majesty's cruisers
from private traders, and carried into Guiana.
instead of Brazil or Cuba, as had been inten-
ded by their original kidnappers, or whether
they be her majesty's own subjects reduced
from the remote regions of India into predidl
d and domestic servitude in the islands Of the
J. Vest. In either case they do not hesitate tC
If denounce and stigmatize the practice by its
e real name. 1t was only in April last, indeed
that petition was presented in the British
d House of Commons, from committee of the
Is Anti-Slavery Society, and signed by the ven
is cradle Thomas Clarkson, setting forth the E.
lie normites Of the traffic described in the pre-
l. cedlng extract from the press of Jamaica. A
s, great part of the 100000 laborers obtained
r from India for the Nautilus, this committee
d declare. were forcibly or fraudulently introdu
}. ced. Referring to the project for loan t.
Of Demarafa and Trinidad, for the purpose o.
re aiding this species of ''immigration," the
re committee ''prayed the house to refuse thei
IS sanction TO such PROPOSAL" declaring thei
G. apprehension ''that the introduction Of labor
:, ers, nominaAy free, but IN FACT SLAVES, into
IL other states holding sLaUes, and the revival o
;, the shure trade" The chicane and fnesse
ne enacted in order to conceal and disguise the
% real situation and destiny of tho racaptured
and other negroes carried, under the sanction
Of the Government, INTO the West India Col
- onies, are also a subject Of special denuncla
ton with those personsi in Great Britain, whose
abolition doctrines and prejudces are sincere
Il y entertained. The attempt of the Premle
C. in his reply to MIR. Tyler's last message OF
Sc the subject Of the slave trade, to gloss thu
u practices of the Governmental this particular
le was more severely handled in the Londol
IP "Anti-Slavery Reporter" than by any press
nc as far as we observed. in this country. 1t we
II, very fully shown, that, whatever refnement
~ Of language might be used to describe TIL
y, transaction, the manner in which the African
VI impo-tatioEs into the British West Indies ar
carried on, is but the establishment of iega
- slave trade, and the deluded immigrants Blu
introduced into state Of bondage.
When the practices of the British Govern
ment with regard TO slavery and the slave trade
are thus held up to scorn by the very me
whose fanatcal purposes the Government pre-
tends TO be abetting and aiding, it cannot b
expected that others should view them IN
charitable light. Indeed, if the half that
said Of The workings of the British system b
true, it would seem to be matter Of proper ir
quiry with QtFPL countries whether they wi
continue to lendfheir aid to that power, in a
enterprise which she thus adroitIy turns to ht
own advantage, without benehttng the caus
which she is professedly engaged.
Patrick and his EmpIoyer.-The 70
90 lowing conxeEsaicn recently took place
mercan'i Puse in one of our large c