Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-18


subjected to- Whilst sensible that there many
subjects that require your attention. yet feel assured that
the evils which properly belong your cognzance could
be brought papaby before in array that the
dreadful enormes growing out of the African slave trade,
exhibited in the startling vson would mmeasurably
ceed those of all other evils combined Could their appalling
horrors have been brought to light by the Investigations Of
the British Parliament be presented to you view, from
the first seizure of the poor wretches in the interior of Africa
by banded ruan amidst the midnight conagraon of their
villages, the butchey OF the old and n6rm the hrek of be-
reaved parents and the subsequent peous Of their
dying infants left to perish with hunger among the smoking
ruins could eyes behold the brokenheared capve
heavy laden with chains and ivory, they wend their
rowing way the coast guided by the bleaching bones of
human beings like themselves who pershed the routes
thousands more Of whom die from hunger and neglect at the
slave factories they embark could you be made sensible
OF the indescribabeyea OF the mid
die passage after being forced into those dens of misery
comparison with which the dungeons of romance become
palaces of pleasure-the hold of modern saver where
chained and packed closely they be made
with heat and want of air. frantic with thirst and raving
through despair they are compelled to lie amidst filth and
and the purd corpes Of the dead for weeks to-
geher and sometimes during Storm for days without food
waer the matches being tightly closed the dread
full where, under these hun
dcds sometimes suocate amidst their vain cries. We
dying dying J" Again could you witness the land
poor creatures and behod-as has been proved be-
OF hundreds whose constitutions had been utterly destroyed
their suerngs thus rendering them could
behold all this the Omnipotent Judge OF all beholds
and thus be made realize that it is not picture Of the inn
agnaton but that these dreadful at this
ment being enactedhat villages nightly burning in
Africa-caravans Of human beings marching under
burning the coasthat saveships, DER which
the flag Of country waiting receive them
and that hour passes but that than twenty hui
man beings consigned to violent suffering death in
support Of this cruel commerce again repeat could you
thus behold these facts they really believe that all
other evils would sink into utter insgn6cance in your est
nation when compared with this and that you would gye
not sleep TO your eyes smber to your eyeds" until
you had exhausted every remedial you could law
fully bring to bear the suppression of the African slave
trade.
We would respectfully remind you that all attempts
suppress this dabocal traffic through has
sgnay ed and that the blockade OF the slave by the
fleets Of Great Britain the United Sates and France com
bined atan expense Of more than and the
crce Of many lives has resulted in great aggravaon Of
the evil instead of promoting its suppression
We would also respectfully we believe that the
ony ectua barriers that have been placed between the
save-deser and his victims Africa have been the colonies