The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-05
THE DAILY UNION.

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that they muter their affairs,n Il is eratfvine
perceive that the English people begin 10 see VII,
lheir government long since saw that the irn;te
States pays as little regard to the menaces a.
} cd heads as philosopher does to the grimaces of
painted devil. The London Morning Chronicle /,
the 18th ut plthily remarks that the British hon.
the matter under consideration, has been treated
puppy dog. The comparison is opposite from Il
business, as well as trenchant in sarcasm Wbe
annexation was first broached the royal beast roar
ed as though baited in its lair; but not being able
fr1ghten anybody, it is now as tame as one of Va
Amburghs pets, and only shows its claws and bel
lows Its breath to make people wonder how il wa
domestlcaied. The rawlings of the London press, an
the explosions of British politicians, are tricks
! the menagerie, upon the model of the exercises a
| Vauxhall. We begin to think that certain antic
that have been played the Sabine are nothn,
more than the pleasantly of the smaller geological
specimens sent thther by Europe to amuse us re
publicans by cutting rusties.
VI different nature however, is the speech O
Sir Robert Peel against the message of Presden
Tyler on the slave trade, in which the apprentic,
system of her West India islands was exposed t.
the public gaze. The English prime minister has de-
scended to the arts of misrepresentation to use
harsher term, In order TO Tip free government "a
dig on the slyn He denies the existence of the an
prentice system, or any other species of involuntary
servltude, in the British colonies He asserts fol
the blacks in the English possessions of this henri
sphere, freedom such as white men enjoy This
is VIGOROUSLY misrepresentation. In the freest OF
the colonies, short apprenticeship is allowed, at
the termination of which the negro has the option
OF renewing his indenures or suinniag back TO Az.
rica-which is enough of itself to discredit the
whole of Sir Robert Peel's statement But Sir Rob
bert Peel himself was privy to law by which Gui-
ana was allowed to make loan of $500 900 for the
cypress purpose OF hiring transports to bring APP
prentices from Africa. The English missionaries
at Sierra Leone have repeatedly announced the fact
that the trade in shipping negroes under indentures
to the British West Indies was carried on extensive
ly and openly. No longer ago than last week, we
puoilshed an extract from the Honduras Observer
TO this effect; 1t is worth another insertion:
"BERBIcE.-A ship has arrived in the Berbice river
ire from Sierra Leone with 24S African emgrants.
ms importation is altogether the private specula-
ton of few Berbice gentlemen, who obtained the
governors license for the vessel employed by them
as an emgrant transport. The Africans were con-
sequently divided amongst themselves, with right
At the same time TO pocket by authority of the colo
mai minister, the public bounty money for the emil
grants"
The Observer employs the term emigrants as a
shade dainter than apprentices. But any one will
know what is meant by shipping emigrants on pri-
pate speculation to the British plantations We need
not multiply instances to prove how utterly Sir
Roberts avermens--made amid iackdaw cries of
hear! hear!"-which were doubt calculated with
'oie NOot tiaH usual, premier was telling the
members of Parliament something quite new to |
hem--are far from the facts of the case Were it |
necessary to fortify the message of an American
PRESIDENT further against the charge of falsehood
imputed to 1t, we might call to view very interest.
ng controversy now going on in Surnanl. Capt.
..chlney, the British adventurer who kidnapped an
American heiress, then quite child, four years ago,
ut OF school on Staten Island kept by an English
of his,--this notorious body -snatcher
las been sent as commissioner to Surinam where
0 make amends for stealing little girl who had the
misfortune to own an immense property he has
zen very busy IN ascertaining how many negroes
ave been held in bondage after the term Of their APP
expired! He has reported that he has
scertaIned that upwards of two thousand blacks
ere held to service after their expired
lark the word apprenticeships. He was sent by the
British government to see that all blacks who had
cen captured from the slavers were, after the time
Or which they had been apprenticed liberated. A
overnment agent is sent to look after black APP
renuces indentured from slavers taken by govern
lent vessels And yet Sir Robert Peel with the
itent to throw discredit on an American State pa
err, asserted in open parliament, that there was no
lch thing as apprentices in the British West In
les We marvel that the bones of Charles James !
OK did not burst the cerements of the tomb, and
ome forward to confront Sir Robert in the utterance
so monstrous a fable.
We have apparently wandered from our theme. 4
ut not SO in fact. 1t was deep scheme in Sir !
opert 70 cast opoquy upon American official doc
ments relating to the condition of the African race
means Of bringing the annexation project into !.
proach with fanatics both sides Of the Atlantic,
no have treated the subject involving the future
'stiny of that people To do this, the British :
me minister wove a tissue after the fashion in !.
hlch his father fabricated Cashmere shawls, at !,
,isley, in which there was not one stran Of Per-
IN wool. Indeed, Sir Roberts speech is not even
good imitation of truth.
We find ourselves constrained, from want of
ace, to bring our remarks to close long before .,
subject is exhausted. We rejoice, however, in
g belief that the misrepresentation of the English
bnet will have just as much weight in preventing
contamination of the great measure of the day,
their threats had in checking its incpient /
ges. Both are so heavy that all Europe cannot
'e them proectile force to reach the object at N
'ich they aimed; they fall to the earth straight
", and are not so much stumblng-blocks in q
way of American progress.
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