Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-05

scheme fell through-mostly in consequence OF 1our
leading erroneous assumptions First. The growing
of cotton in India notwithstanding that Amerlc'n
seed, American planters, American cotton-g anu
American machinists were at great expense Trans
ferred to that country-was found to be utterly I'M
possible The staple deteriorated IN that chnla'e H
much as to render competition with INC On1 ~
States from that quarter hopeless: oecon"
assumption that blacks would work In q sI''te VI q
dom as well or better than slaves was prove" ~
be utterly groundess they would not work at all,
and her colonies were ruined Ihlfo. me aSsuhp-
ton that immigrants from the sugar and coffee coun-
tries of India could produce as wen IN the west IN
dies was. upon trial found equally fallacOus, and
the remnant of miserable beings whom she caused
to be transported from India to jamaica, are to be
sent back at great expense. Fourth. Her assump-
ton that the African slave trade could be suppress
cd has proved as great blunder as the other ele-
ments Of her grand scheme and the leading author
tiles upon that question have acknowledged IN sor-
the fact that the horrors of the trade are at
moment not only greater than ever, but that the
number of blacks that leave Africa is larger, and
annually increasing. Indeed 1t might reaally nave
been deduced from the state of affairs that lnasmuch
as that the demand for coffee and sugar the products
of slave labor is annually the increase through,
out Europe, if the supply should be diminished
through the failure of the English scheme to en-
nance it in her own colonies by free labor then the
demand for slaves would by much be increased,
and consequently by the profits of the trade and this
has indeed been the case. All the attempts OF Eng
land to suppress the slave trade by the employment
of her cruisers and by her wordy contentious in re-
lation to the right of search, have been more than
contravied through the demand which she herself
has created for the products of slave-purchassine
countries. Her blockading squadron has done, liter
ally nothing towards its prOfessed object. SO tal
from it's having suppressed the traffic or promised
to suppress it, it was concluded by the Parlamenta
ry Committee of Inquiry, that although the squad
ron was in the very highest state of efficiency and
discipline, the trade was ''now conducted with an
amount of organization, and with degree of conf
dence in the of its adventures, such as has
before been opposed to the efforts of the nations
engaged in suppressing it." The mean number O
captives matters very little in such state of things
as this-and the London Times remarks as follows
GAS mere question of fact it has been placed beyont
doubt that cruisers do not prevent materially
impede expectation slaves from Africa their i'm
portaon into Brazil On the contrary, it has been concur
reny stated by the commodore and one of the most ntei
gent captains of the squadron that its did actually
tend to the consolidation and settlement of the traffic.
fnjng to houses Of large capital and teruod'ary rsoM
We subjOn the following statement, taken from tn
Foreign Office reports and Mr.. Bandnel's abstract