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 H.any iurtherProo was wanted, of the ut- ter and well known though not vet openly avowed failure of West Indian emancipation. it would be furnished by the startling fact that the African slave trade has been actually revived under the auspices and protection of the British government Under the spacious guise of ''immlgrationn they are replenishing these islands with slaves from the coast of Africa Your colony of Sierra Leone, found on that coast 10 prevent the slave trade. and peopled by the by in tAe first instance by no- groes stolen from these States during the Re volullonary War, is the depot where capiiyes taken from slavefs by your armed vessels, are transported might say returned, since nearly hall the Africans carried across the Atlantic are understood to be embarked in this vicinity. Yhe wretehed survivors, who are there set at liberty, are immediately sr- duced to ''immigrate, to the West Iadics.- The business Is systematically carried on by black delegates" enteXpressly from the West Indies, where on arrival, the ssimmi- grants are sold into slavery for twenty-one ears, under conditions rdiculously trivial and Wlckedly void, since few or none will
 ever he able to derfTe any advantage from
 them. The whole prime of life thus passed
 in bondage, Il Is contemplated, and doubtless It will be carried into effect to turn them out in their old age to shift for themselves, and to supply their places with ire :h and yigor- ous s.imigrantso Was ever d system of slavery so barbarous, devised before; Can you think of comparing il with ours3 Even your own religious missionaries of Siere Leone, denounee il ''as worse than the Slave state in Africa" And your Black Delegates fearful of the influence of these missionaries, as well as on account of the inadequate sup ply oi the captyes are now preparing to pro- cure the able bodied and comparatively in- dushlous kroomen of the interior, by pur- chasing from their Headman the privilege of lnveigllng them to the West Indian market So qlds the magnificent larce-perhaps should say tradedy oi West Indian aboli- ton! will not harrow your feelings by asking you to review the labors of your lie and tell me what you and your brother En- thusiasts have accomplished for :. injured Alrca,o but while agreeing with Lord Stow ell, that 'Villeinage decayed" and admitting that slavery might do so also, think am fully justified by passed and passing events, III saying, as Mir Grosyenor said of the Slave trade, sthat it's abolition Is impossible.o
 Your are greatly mistaken, however, if you think that consequences of emancipation here, would be similar and no more njuri- ous than those which followed from it in your little sea girt West India Islands, where nearly all were blacks The system of sla- very IS not in ''decay" with us. It flourish es Tn full and growing vigor Our country IS boundless Tn extent Dotted here and there with villages and fields, it bs for the most part covered with immense forests and swamps of almost unknown size. In such country, with a people so restless as ourss communicating of course some of that sort of power of the master over the slave, should coniine the African race, nctorIously idle and improvident, to labor on our plantations 2- Break this bond, but for day, and these plantations will be soltndes. The negro loves change, novelty and sensual settlements of all kinds when awake. "Reason and or der,n of which Mir. Wliberlorce said '.iberty was the child do not characterize him. Re leased from his present obligations, his first impulse would be to go somewhere. And here on natural boundaries would restrain him. Al first they would all seek towns and rapidly accumulate in squallid groups upon their outskirts. Driving thence by the s.ar- med police" which would immediately spring into existence, they would scatter in all di- rections. Some bodies of them might wall der to the ''free" States or to the western making their tracks by their de- predations of their corpses. Many would roam wild in our ..big woods" Many would seek the recesses of swamps for secure CO., vert. Few, very few of them could be pre- vailed on to do a stroke of work, none to labor continuously, while head of cattle, sheep or swine, could be found in our ranges; or an ear of corn nudded in our abandoned fields. These exhausted, our folds and poul- try yards, barns and store-houses would be- come their pray. Finallys our scattered dwellings would be plundered. perhaps fired, and the inmates murdered-iIow long do you suppose VIC could bear ihese things2 How long would il be before we should sleep with rifles al our bedsides, and never move with
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