Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-15

ing, " Loose the bands Of wickedneas, undo
the heavy burdens. break every yoke, and let
the oppressed 90 free 7" Let common sense,
Justice, humanity and understanding Of the
spirit and temper Of Christ decide.
BY their fruits shall every spirit be tested,
and condemned or acquitted accordingly.
o. The following extracts are from a
memorial presented TO Lord Palmefston, by
a Committee of The British and Foreign Anti.
Slavery Society. The Reporter" says,
that the adoption and enforcement Of Il g
measure proposed by the Committee, would
emancipa,e at leas, two.ihirds of the slaves
| Of Cuba, and one-half Of those Of Brazil.
TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD PALMERsToN.
My LORD Deeply impressed with the
melancholy facts, authenticated by the clear
est evidence, which were laid before the
House of Commons, at the close Of its last
session, in relation to the present extent and
increasing activity and success of the slave
trade, and the utter ineficiency Of the cruis-
ing system to suppress it. the Committee of
the British and Foreign Anti.Slavery Socie-
~ feel it to be an imperative duty earnestly
TO appeal to your lord ship. to adopt other and
wiser methods for terminating, if it be posi-"
BILE, an evil 30 affecting to humanity, and so
disgraceful to the boasted civilization and re-
ligion Of the age.
The history of the slave.trade has ever
been one Of unmitigated outrage and wrong,
the darkest condensation Of cruelty and
crime; but at no former period was it carried
on with such ruthless barbarism and atrocity
as al present, its horrors having been multi
piled by the very means taken to suppress it.
The facts Of the case, as set forth in the Re-
port of The Select Committee appointed 10
consider the best means which Great Britain
can adopt for providing for the final extinc.
lion of the slave-trade, are as follows -
THAT the slave-trade at the present time
is equal in extent to what it was during the
seven years which preceded its legal aboli-
ton by this country, the export Of slaves
from Africa then averaging IS, 900 per
annum, the number being now, (I847) 3d.
356; that during the present year, IS4S)
the slave-trade has been in a state of unusual
vigor and activity, Notwithstanding that,
from the year ls45 down to the present Pc
Rod. the strength and efficiency Of the Brit
ish Preventive Squadron, supported by the
Squadrons Of France and the United States,
have heen raised TO a point never before at
tanned that the total number of negroes
liberated by British cruisers, in the wears
1916 and I847, scarcely exceeded four per
cent. of the slaves carried off from Africa
during these years, though the expenditure
connected with their employment is not less
than E650,000 per annum; that the suffer-
ings and mortality of slaves in the barracoons
and in the middle passage are appalling to
humanity, and the intensity Of those suffer-
ipuc nd tha arnoupf of that mortality ara
unexampled IN the history Of the slave-trade,
the deaths connected with the transport Of
slaves from Africa to Cuba and Brazil hav-
ing increased since the year 1905, from four
teen 10 twenty-five per cent. that the traffic
with Brazil has been attended with very
large profits, and that il is now conducted
with an amount of organization, and with a
degree of confidence in it's success, such as
have never before been opposed to the efforts
of the nations engaged in its suppression -
that the extent and activity Of the slave-trade,
though in some degree affected by foreign
Interference, and at times restrained by the
Governments of Spain and Brazil, have been
mainly governed by the demand for the pro-
ducts Of slave-labor in the markets of Flu
rope; and that The admission Of slave-grown
sugar to consumption in this country, has
} tended, by greatly increasing the demand fol
> that description Of produce, so TO stimulate
, the African slave-trade as TO render an etfec'
tual check more difficult Of attainment thar
at any former PERIOD"
Such is The substance Of the Report pre-
, scented to Parliament on the slave-irade, anc
such, in fact, has been the view taken Of thi'
, painful subject by the Anti-SlaveTy Com
mittee, and submitted TO Government, in va
:, rious memorials. In the survey which they
: took of the evidence contained in official pa
pers and correspondence, in 1876, they said
.. 1t is incontrovertible that the c~oercive prin
: ciple, as applied TO the suppression Of tn
slave-trade, has failed that it costs thi
] country an immense amount Of treasure =
> that il wastes the lives and health of British
seamen /; that it aggrayates the horrors, with
out sensibly mitigating the extent, of tn
, traffic /; and that some other means must b.
, found, if over this scourge Of the human rae
! be removed" And they added No hop
can reasonably be INDUCED that the Spanish
and Brazilian Governments will fulfil thei
engagements for the suppression of The slave
, trade. Their bad faith stands conspicuou
before the world. 1t is vain, therefore, I
expect their cordial and jealous cooperate
, in this great work. So long as slavery ex
lists IN any part OF their dominions, the Afr
can slave-trade will be viewed as a necess
ty ; and. though not openly justified, will b
= secretly fostered and encouraged"
On the abolition Of the slave-trade by Ores
Z. Britain, Mr.. Wilberforce and Mr., ClsrkSor
and other eminent Philsn'hroFiS's, conside.
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