The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-13
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
THE BRITISH EAST AND WEST INDIA
SLAVE TRADE

The following extract from recent number Of
the Jamaica Journal gives the latest intelligence thai
has been received of the progress ofths branch
of commerce The traffic is carried on under the
special patronage Of the British crown being part Of
the system by which that government, while pro-
Tossing to bend all its energies to the eradication
the slave trade seems in fact, but striving obtain
monopoly of it for her own people and colonies:
"CooLIE rMNnGRArfoN.--The Blundcll, Captain Rober
Hunter, left Calcutta the 26h January last, having
males 90 females 10 boys under IL years age girls
der the same age and is infants under years OF age
who having already been to the Maurus and cor
speak the French language are expected will be found use
u here as they have already served on sugar
other class Of could do. The Lord Hungeford also
sailed the ,. day. for p svins on s2oEd 800 sm
at Calcutta to convey emigrants to the West indies was
very great owing to the unusually high rate of ghs to
There prospect Of obtaining emigrants from Madras
this soason."-Jamacd Journal.
In describing this traffic as the opening of new
save trade, we have not used harsher phrase than
is applied to it by many Of the English people them.
selves; those who really sincere in their desires
and efforts (however mistaken in the means they
use) to meliorate the condition of the serve races
and accordingly Disguised with the shocking hy-
pocrisy that displays itself In the conduct Of the
government, pushing its pretended zeal for the de-
structon of the slave trade even TO the extent of yo-
Of nations, while il surreptitiously introduces and
encourages the same traffic in another shape. There
is great virtue, no doubt, in change Of names but
the real anti-slavery men of Great Britain are no,
deceived by the transmutation of the odous and
condemned epthet Of "slave trade' into the Modified
appellation Of Immigrant transportation" whether
the Immigrants" be Africans seized by her Majes-
tys cruizers from private traders, and carried into
Guiana, instead of Brazil or Cuba, had been in
tended by their original kidnappers whether they
be her Majesty's own subjects reduced, from the
remote regions of India, into predial and domestic
serviude in the islands OF the West. In either case
they do not hesitate to deneunce and sigmatize the
practice by its real name. TWAS only in April last,
indeed, that petition was presented in the British
House Of Commons from a committee Of the anti
slavery society, and signed by the venerable Thorn
Clarkson setting forth the enormties Of the traffic
described in the preceding extract from the press OF
Jamaica. A great part Of the 100 900 laborers OBJ
tanned from India for the Maurtius, this committee
declare, were forciby or fraudulently introduced,
Referring to the project Of loan to Demarara and
Trinidad for the purpose Of aiding this species Of
immigration" the committee "prayed the House
to refuse their sanction TO such a proposal de-
canng their apprehension that the introduction
OF laborers, noninaily FREE but SLAVES, into
those countries would lead to Imitation By other States
holding siapes and the revival of THn save trade y
The chcanc and fnesse enacted in order to conceal
and disguise the real situation and destiny Of the re-
captured and other negroes carried under the sancl