Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-17
Total.

The remaining passengers, 24, consisted of IS delegates returning, and persons who had prev ly returned to Sier, Leone, and came their own expense.
 The Port of SpaiI Gazette has long article on the prospects of supplying the British West Indies with black people iiun Sierra Leone. from which we qu0te:- ..i
 The population of Sierra Leone may be taken 10 consist of two grand casses the one, petty p,opri- etors aders who have each one or more liberated Africans apprenticed 10 them, and on whose labors they mainly deptndent Tor sul,s.s,snoe-and the other, of these said liberated Africans. The former class are, generally speaking, averse 10 emigrate, because they fnd purchaser for their hu,s and land, ther petty stock in trade. They gre not in position 10 make money, but still they can live with very little labor of Iler own hands, such mode of life is quite satisfactory to them. The class last above mentioned-the drudges of the other class would doubt gladly emigrate, if they could see matters in their true hght-there many thousands of them al Sierra Leone merely earning ibeir vict-
 als and the privilege of sleeping in their employer huts-but they landed from the shaver with well grounded horror of white men, far as their own experience of that portion of the human family goes < so that between their fears and their ignorance il becomes difficult matter to get them to view the question of immigration in its proper light black delegates, it IS evident. are the only parties suited for communicating with this sla,s; and they find considerable opposition on
 
 stated not only 10 follow them with to the office oi the Emisrant Agent, but to try to force them away from on board the vessel in which they had taken passage. On the whole as regards these two principal classes of Sierra Leone nhabitants it is very difficult 10 form any opinion to the extent of imm grafton which may take place to the West Indies: the Missionaries, both Churchmcn and Wes. leyans, are decidedly opposed 10 immigration and all their influence to prevent any of their flock from joining in it-they openly state that they prefer seeng them their native slave state, to their proce sdng to the West Indies; and the influence of these parties, especially the upper of the two classes into which Sierra Leone society seems to be divided. is very great.
 The horrors of this new system of slavery are ev. dently as great, if not greater than the old slave trade Rather than have tHelr people emigraie, the Missionaries "openiy ate that they prster seeing them return to their nafirs sldpe satel" Such is the nouncement of the editor of the Port of Spain Ga- zette, who obtains his information from the super cargo agent, Mir. Guppy, who returned in the ship Senator with his cargo of living men, sold into bon dage for long term of years at much per head!- The Missionaries are intelligent and learned men they have travelled in the interior examined the tive slavery of Africa, and of all ohers best able 10 compare it with this system of British sa- very. Yet, horrible native slavery is known to bethe lives of the slaves being at the mercy of their owners, who may sell t'eu at any time, or separate fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, and sell them for the highest current prics,-ihe Missiona- ries prefer it to this new system of British slavery This philanthrupic apprenticeship is but another for the old Spanish and Portuguese slave trade the worst that ever dsgraced humanity.
 But the Missionaries have powerful influence a' round Sierra Leone, and the British traders in hu man flesh apprehend great difficulty in getting any more cargocs from there. IL is therefore proposed to kidnap the Kroonen, from the Kroo Cosnlry, wha excred personal strength all other tribes of Cen tral Africa.
 Aluding to this tribe, the Gazette (speaking from information furnished by the slave catcher. Mir. Cup. '"Thsse people are renaik kable for their patient endurance of til and their eagsrness of gam. They would not, however. emigrate in any numbers with out tho appreciation of heir head men, whose con. sent must of course be bought, and free passage must be ensured them whenever they wish 10 return or these peopl, it is believed, many thousands might be oblained-tliere are frequently many thousands of them at Sierra Leone, working al less thaa one bit per day."
 The "consent'' of their head men must be sbought!" That is, the Chiefs must be bribed to ! sell ther slaves 10 the English. Then we have the savo of a free passage whenever my oi these slave' wish to return li is preposterous 10 suppose they ever will return. Once the plantation, bounded
 for twentyone years, they will remain there for liie l if they should be fortunate as to outive the | period of their bondage, at which time they would be at least for'ytwo years old. IL is unnatural te suppose that would live to that age without mar riage. The value of he apprentice as laborer. h'' health and his morals, render it necessary that he should marry. A free passage for the families o these emgranis, whenever they wish to return tt Afrlca, atlo their apprenticeship expires Is. there fore, matter sf moonshine. Their children become apprentices like themselves; while the parents, hay
 ing devoted the prime of life to the service of the masters, turned adrft 10 earn precarious sub sistence. Here is the unheard ofcruelty of this sys tew: old age is abandoned to want any misery. II cur Southern States, the old and feeble are proy'de' with every comfort. are attended by skiliul phYsl cians, while their children are ever near them t minister to the,r want. in sickness, or add to th' l joys of life in health ,-famles are seldom separated nor are the aged ever crowded into poor houses t die in neglect. Instances of longevity tn our South | ern States are numerous among slaves 'ha | whites- But we are not the advocates of slavery Il any .orm, when il can be dispensed with The Brit ish West India Islanders, by importing natives iro Africa, and binding them service for lsng periods are reviving the African slave trade in an od'on form. IL is a traffic m human flesh, revoltlng humanity, and in direct opposition to the acknw ledged policy of lhe British Government.
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