The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-05-30
From the Boston Post.
GREAT BRITAIN AND SLAVERY,


startling facts revealing the motives by which
Great Britain is actuaed in herrecent slrvc-
ry movements. These show how little her
policy is connected with philanthropy, and
how much il is linked with the question of
commercial monopoly and political power
This has leen the great object of her
statesmen ever since the avgation act Of
Cfomwell's time; and in extending her own
inhnence-in crpl'ng her riyals-she has
hesiated at no crime, howeyergreai With
other nations she has been, in a greater o.
less degree successful; but this Idtlon has
steadily res stcd her pretensons, whether
undisguisedly manifested in spoliat'ons of our
commerce and impressment of our seamen,
or masked under the garb of philanthropy in
pretended efforts 10 abolish the Slave Trade
Gre't Britain recently has made he world
ring with her ph hlanthropc designs concern
ing this trade. She has spent millions and
millions in pretending 10 abolish il, and yet,
her own state papers being the authority, This
trade is worse than ever. Why is it so?-
The honest of her subjects, who really have
the abolition Of this horrible tr ffic at heart,
have often pointed out the fatality of her
present movements, and showed conclusive
ly how, with title of the money Great Bri
tain now spends in maintaining fleets upon
the coast of Africa, she might accomplish
her avowed purpose. Gen. Turner, the Co.
vernon of Sierre Leone, informs his govern
ment, first, Of the terrible increase of the
slave trade, and, second, pledges himself
with two small steamboats,, and little compa-
rative expense, 10 prevent single cargo ot
slaves from being carried from the West
Coast of Africa! Colonel Nichols, the Go
vernon of Fernando Po, rpiterates this Ian
guage, and pledges HIMSELF with four steam
boats, to stop the whole of this trade in two
years. Capt Harris, the Secretary 10 the
Bombay government, tells the British Parli-
ament that all lis efforts 10 crush this traffic
have failed, and that Ahicrn colonizti' II
alone will abolish it. Yet why does the Bri-
tish Government tnrn a deaf ear to all this?
Why has it refused, since 1925, to even let
such practical officers, who undoubtedly be-
lieve in the sincerity of the power that en-
ploys them, make trial of their policy?-
The reason is evident. Great Britain has
no intention of abolshing the slave trad -
She is endeavor'ng only 10 turn it to he,
own commercial and politcnl advantage.
Among the most remarkable documents
of the dry are those uron this subject pre-.
senied i'll The last session of the British Par.
lament, and recently Qs44) pnbIshed-
They consist of fifteen hundred folio pages
all relating TO slavery. The sum of their
testimony we shall let the British Journal
the London Herald, Uo'y) relate. These
papers, il says, New. 90, 1914, disclose
" the almost incredible fact, that ever
" as connected with the western world only
"the traffic is increased, instead of being
"d'min' shed--while an unbounded slave
giraffe in the eastern world has yet scare |,
" been touched---nay, it may be said onl,
ycs'erdoy discovered, yet equal in amonn
'sto that from Africa ACROSS the Atlantic -
This journal confesses, with perfect sirnpl CT
~ that all the exertions of Great Britain
for sixty years have been frut'ess, end'r.
r even to increase the horrors of he trade !!
What Great Britain is at present doing, th'
same Journal tells us in the following Ian
guaTe:
"Whle we have captured and paid 70
, 10000, more than 10c, 900 have pershe,
between capture and liberation, and at leas
100000 have been carried off; amongs
which number the mortality has been fear
: fully great. Or present yearly expond
ture is 100000, and for, say 5000 survi
wing Of those captured, about 10000 more
; is expended in carryinC them 10 and locating
them in the British West Indies, being q
the rate of 1901. for every lahorer, even il
this way obtained. About 100000 more
are carried across the Atlantic TO foreigr
possessions, accompanied by distressing
mortality, to say notl ing of the sill more
terrible havoc which the war, desolation ant
robbel S by which they are obtained, oc'
4 C lsion in Africa; while at the anne time the
measures taken to destroy the trade have
more than once endangered the peace Of
the world, and nearly plunged the civilized
nations of Europe and Amer'co into hostil'-
h ties with each other. The cost of VIII ct
would have been enormous, the extent
dreadful, and the progress attended with
4 changes and mseries sufficient TO make the
4 most reckless hesitate, and the most unlaunt
A cd tremble."
And is this British philanthropy? AT this
| terrible rate does she capture slaves from
slave dealers only to transfer them 10 her
own colonies, TO make them contribute to
her greatness! What is this but bold mock.
cry? Better that the robber-nation threw of
1 lis mask at once, and blazon on its black
banner, monopoly of trade and extension OF
Spcl,ical power by any and every means
This, at least, would be consistent with
lrampln on Ireland, crushing India, and
conquering China. a
While Great Britain is thus libeIling the
name of philanthropy, and receiving the
nlandiis Of oven Americans for doing il