Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-15
WHOLE NO. l73.

InefCP ann Agriculture, hho presented 10 the
Csptdin-C General on the subject, observe -
" They report ia terms somewhat Unbecom-
ing rs respects The right Of England TO inter-
fere v ith The internal affairs Of The island, the
writer's forgetting that every party to a treaty
has an undouhted claim 10 see that The pro-
visions Of a tpaty ARE faithfully observed"
They state, at the same time. that the Report
of the Patriotic Society, composed almost en-
tirely Of Creoles or natives, had done full
justice 10 the motives of her Majesty's CO.
vernment, and approved of the BRUSH policy
in seeking an effective suppression Of tie
slave.ludr."
kfser referring to the fact OF these nego,ia-
ions being suspended upon Lord Palmer
ston's retirement from o%ficey the memorial
proceeds.
Justice, humanity, treaty-stipnlalions and
treaty-rights-ihe ioriuOus course pursued 10y
the Spanish GvvefuInent on the question:
the conniyance OF It's iuncilonarles-the false
hood and deceit pracilsed and detected, aud
yet practised again-all required that Her
Maiesty's Government should have been firm
in ,xaciing the strict fulflment of the trea-
ties but such was not The case, and the
dreadful consequence has been, that probably
half n million Of slaves have since been re-
moved from Africa, 10 perish in the middle
| passage, TO die under the drivers whip, or to
drag out n miserable existence on tie plan'a-
lions or in the mines OF Cuba and Brazil.
On its becoming known that The British
Government would not press its claim, the
alarm subsidized, and the slave-irade was con-
tinued, as heretofore, 10 supply the waste OF
mortality, or 10 people new plantations with
slaves. II, during the last three or four years,
the number Of slaves imported into Cuba, d.
rect from Africa has not exceeded from one
to two thousand per annum, this has arisen
from the large stock Of negroes thrown on the
market for sale, in consequences CT the de-
s~,ruction Of the coffee estates by the hurri-
canes Of fa44 and 1876; there can be no
doubt, however, that when that source Of sup
ply is exhausted, and stimulated as sugar
production has been by the Sugar Acts of
1916 and f648, it will soon break out again,
as it has already done in Brazil, with greater
violence than ever, unless an %etfectual check
is applied. That check, the re-
spectfully submit, will be found in renewing
the demand OF 1910, In terms that cannot he
mistaken or eysded, for the Liberation from
slavery Of all negroes introduced into thu
SuaDish colonies since the Both Of October
1920, and applying the same principle to Bra
T zil, in relation to all Africans imported int
that country since the 9Th of November. 1881
The COMMITTEES are encouraged 10 hope tina
your lordship will readily acquiesce IN this
recommendation, inasmuch as in a despatch
to the Commissary Judge at Havana, dated
22nd November, l847, you re-asseIt theiI
RIGHT to freedom, and OF the British Govern
men, TO interfere, in the following terms:-
4" vi it'll regard to negroes brought to Cubs
from Africa, since the decree OF Ferdinand
of Dec. 10, 1917, it IT TO be observed, that
they are by Spanish Law entitled 10 their free
dom and that This right has been claimed J7
them 6v the British Government" The Com
mittee, therefore, urge upon your lordshlP the
necessity of immediately renewing the nego'
tia,ions commenced in 1910, for a Conven.
ton with the Spanish Government, and thai
YOU will similar negotiations with
Brazil that you will fix a period for the con-
clusion and ratification of such Conventions
and if then the Spanish and Brazilian Gov
ernments are not prepared to give them effect,
that your lordship will demand of Spain the
instant repayment of the E400,000 and inIe-
rest thereon, paid TO her in 1877, as an lndem-
pity for the abandonment of the slave-lrade ;
and that you will notify to the authorities OF
Spain and Brazil, that on the opening OF the
next session Of Parliament, Her MaJesty's
Government will be prepared to lay before
The legislature a pil Ioi 'he purpose GA
GLIDING the produce of their colonies and ter
ri,ories from The British markets, until such
timea as slavery itself shall be abolished there
in.
In respectfully pressing this course upor
your lordship, the Committee feel that it i
~perfecily Just and reasonable; that 1t is With
in the competency of Government and Par
lament; and that, if it DO faithfully pursued
it will accomplish the object aimed at, name
i. ", the complete abolition Of the Spanish an
brazilian slave-trade, and rescue multitudes o
Africans from the degradation and suffe'ings o
3 slavery in a manner perfectly consistent will
good faith, the national honor, the stipula
? lions Of treaties, the laws of Spain and Bra
, iii, and the highest interests Of humanity ant
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