The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-11-02

John b. Muller Melchofs, OF New York, consul oil
the United States for the Grand Duchy OF Hesse Darn
sad The Electorate OF Hesse Cassel and the Duchy Of
Nassau.
Edward B. Buchanan, OF Maryland consul OF the
United States for the port Of La Rochelle in France
The British Free Emigration" Policy.
We have no answer 10 make TO the suggestions in
some of the papers that we have been indscreel' OF
premature in giving publicity to the facts from which
we deduced the existence OF British scheme for con-
vering Cuba into colony OF free negroes. To the de-
velopments of time we freely submit these questions and
when the crisis any poor remarks OF ours shall
have prepared the country for the shock we will have
been fully for the criticisms TO which ar
ces have been subjected If the crisis should not come
we may be vain enough TO claim credit for having
contributed to avert it. But there another suggestion
made by way of censure rebuke 10 which we have an
answer TO make II has been said through The columns
OF the National Iateigsneer that the scheme OF INTRO
ducng African apprentices into Cuba is SO abhorent to
nature and so contradictory TO the whole policy OF Great
Britain in regard 10 the slave rade that is absurd to at
tribute such scheme TO her. This position carries with
il all the ear marks OF British diplomacy. 1t assumes
that British diplomats employ language TO express and not
TO conceal their ideas We have no doubt that MIR.
Champion, in his diplomatic character and upon his d.
ploma,c responsibility would make just such response
10 articles and yet, in the exercise OF that entre
liberty" which enjoy in common with Lord John Rus.
SELL should be compelled 10 put more confidence in
well current and historical facls than in his
diplomatic responses In this remark we mean no disre
spsct to her Msjeslys minister, but thereby to
characterize the diplomacy Of her Majestys government
az we naerstand il on the pages Of its history.
The doctrine OF free emigration" OF the negroes from
Africa TO the British colonies had its origin many years
ago in Exeter Hail. It Matched by British abolition
lists as phllanthropic Substitute for the slave trade The
project was not long since debated the British Para-
ment and the authority for acknowledged by minister's
who stated that the for the transportation of free
from Africa the colonies in hands no,
likely 10 abuse the confidence Of government. A de.
NAL would have been worse than useless- would have
been criminals for il is well known TO have been in foil
operation for number Of yearsone Of the contracting
parties for the transportation being agents OF the British
government 10 the harbors OF Rio and Havana there
are and have been for many years. ships for the
reception OF captured Africans and from time to time,
their numbers increase vessels are chartered carry
Them to the Yves, India enthusiastically for the part,
10 the British island OF Trinidad the Spanish main
nd so from Sierra Leone, ST. Helena. and Ascension
These people slaves OF every age and but for the
most part young taken board the slavers route for
the slave marls, but never returned TO their native
homes Hitherto they have supplied the demand for la
Dor in The British West India isles Some poisnseer to
ill the ranks Of the several black regiments OF the British
army others vounieer become apprentices 10 planters
for the abors OF the field, and others distributed
servants in families. In this way Exeter Hall is made
happy under the reflection that whilst the poor negro
rescued from perpetual slavery. the planters pro-
vided with necessary labor the prosperity Of the colonies
is maintained commerce hhves, and the OF the
United Kingdom foo, up WE'LL And this is the triumph Of
British abolitionsm
AT frs, the free emxran,s consisted of the recap
tured Africans taken in the vicinity Of the slave marts
Of Brazil and Cuba; but this only enough to bet
the appetite, not satisfy it, Then free emigration
started from The colonial ports the coast of Africa the
cargo consisting OF recaptured Africans Now il en-
braces every able bodied negro who can be procured 10
emigate and any who knows Africa tell! the
sequs-io wit, the revival of the slave trade in Africa IL
self and the introduction OF the most a,rocious form OF
slavery which ii has yet assumed II there be any
one incident of slavery which soitens the LOT Of the A-
can and makes his burden light TO bear, is The certainty
that the obligations Of the master TO proec, the helpless
in infancy in age, and in sickness with
time No, 80 with this ten-years system Of apprentice
ship introduced by the phanlhropic iree-emig
doctrine OF British aboltiohsis. Were this system now
fastened upon the savehodog States Of this Union the
desu,ion pestence, and famine OF all Europe congre
gated and cast into the midst OF unhappy Ireland, would
scarcely equal the misery and ruin which would entail
on the three millions now amongst Well may il
be denounced as horrible traffic in a new and aggra.
waited FORM" deserving the contempt and execraton Of
the civilized world. And yet this is the British solution
of the question Of African slavery-the phanthrcpic
scheme invented by British nobemen to ameloraie the
condition OF the poor slave There is nothing so ter
rble to the free smgranf' Africans themselves AZ this
British philan,hropc solution OF the slave question.
They dread slavery far less than Brlsh apprenticeship
They rebel on board the ships their way to The British
provnces they become brave from desperation a. they
approach the island where they are TO freedom by
ten years servtude; they murder their philanhropic
protectors and then declare You take us from the slave
dealers 10 send to your plantations We had rather
20 as slaves to Brazil. where were bound You
never take us back country, and our friends
have gone before Brazil Such is the general feel
ing on the whole slave coast where the negroes are
not ignorant OF the destiny which awaits them in either
case.
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