New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-28
At first. sl,.e~ frcm CsroIins were hired

=, ~ il w.nli t-rmnate for the Advantage o. thc
Africans snd that it essenai to fse SFo'Pe' "
the country Ard the scuples Of he '-ov'nS M
r,v,,us sere qui-ted BY a oe5stge from Ge'@'ny I'D
I,51 ss,ip,: If you take slaves IN fite. aud wisl
" the io,eut of conducting them 20 CHRIS tne acton
awll NJ, be sn. but o,ey prove beDed'ctlon.'
sop,h Carolina alone OF yse orgioal thirteen states
w. from s cradle essentially pls1tipg >tatt si'h
slave labor Ia l67i Sir John iea'mans arrived 'oh
Parbsdo-s with Afccsn slaves; and negro SiHVery VAS
thu. cosvsl with The frs plantations on Ashey her'
While ip MARYLAND and Vugloia the cusom o. npoy
ing il deb,ed servants oog prev.e' 10 Carolina E7
first snd great object of the emirsns was " 10 ouy
negro" Slaves from Airc, were received "in'a
tie borders of every of the Co"uies ou' tae cn
mate of Carolina seen ed 70 favor the purposes com
uerc al svarice, and the negro race was mpiPied 10
rsuidy hy impor at tina IN few seirs the olicAS
we're 10 the whites in proportion "f ~ To IL Ana IN
I76I the Provincial Asse nhls Of South Carolina 10
.prouor thu public security, imposed duS
amot npg 10 prohibition. upon every slsye imported;
but this law was veOed BY the Grown as inconsistent
:. with the ipterest of British commerce. Indeed
" the British Sovereiau in l76-70 vetoed all Cplonla
leeislstior prohbitor, or resrccSe Of slave inpor
tatlon: ana Yet England. in l76S, took from the
"Cosst OF Africa 53IO0 negroes aud made slaves OF
";h.u ia Der coiooies aDile hsr orators poets and
"sts,esm.u.werr louuly proclsiulOg Eoghsa virtue,
IN bot permtt ng slaves sro exist on ESsu'h s'ono'
In March I1I3, a conrract was 1sde be "eeo SPAN
aud ot tr powers ior furnishing slaves 10 the opiusa
don irions il America. L. Juk, ElS Fh's coatfic'
ras rrspsferred 10 Eugahd by she treaty OF Urech'
spo rhereb, England obtaued the privilege of nI'nS
the New Wor,d with negro slaves. No Frenchm4nu'
Spabard, or any other persons might introiuce
single slave into Spanish Amerca and England ma
the exclusive poly OF the slave trade for the "uu
of Mexico on the Atl,n'c, all along tle PAchc anu
the Ergl sh Colonies These monopois'ng privileges
were enjoyed by compapy-tne Asciento Company
and FhpV Of Spain, took one quarter OF tne stocA'
Queen ADpe one fourth Ia herself AID the re-
u na'png half Was divided among her tsvOrites-thus
the Sovereign ns of England and Spain became the
largest slave merchants IN the world BY tue treaty
assigning the contract her Britannia Majesty under
took 4" TO bring into the West Indies OF America be-
"Iopgiog TO his Catholic (Spsnish Msjesty, in the
spsce of thirty Years $4,000 pegroes, at the rate of
"a SEQ each year These negroes cost nothing bn'
trpke,s sDd toy aud refuse arms, aud EDga9d ga'oed
BY her total sale of slaves in America under this con-
tract the capital which built up and confirmed the
Br,t,h Empire in Hndostan.
In l745 when the British were the greatest slave
trafck ng nation in the world il was contended and
gated in England, by the Brit sh merchants,
that the African slave trade was the great plar aud
support of the plantation trade in America thatf the
slave trade should be thrown into the hands OF her
"rns ss and the colonies depend upon white laoor'
they would soon be undOne OK shake OIL their de-
"penden e ON the British Crown, as ohite men cannot
"be obta ned as cheapy we have obtained Africans
Even were it possible for white men to answer the
lend Of negroes in planting, we must drain our own
"couptry Of husbaDdmeD mechanics ami mann'ac
turers; thus we might dread the property OF our
"colouies but while we supply then vi negroes
We psed have such apprehensi'as
Previous TO l74O there were imported from Africa
to tie Epy lish American Colonies about l3OOJo ne
proes-pr.yiOus 10 l776 over 3JO,O0O-and RsyDal es
tin aes the number of negroes exported by all Eiro
pean pations from Africa before l776 to have beea
nine millions Bancroft links tbe number imported into
the ST. sh French snd EDgl-b Continental Colonies,
previous to the prohibition of the Slave trade, was
about 100000 to which may be adoed more than
$50 OCO, thrown into the sea on the passage. Inc
cross returns to the English Tor the whole traic In
negro slaves is estimated four hundred millions OF
dollars.
The people of Massachusetts, first assumed the
right TO treat the Iodians the footing OF Canaan
"ltes or Amalekites" and always opposed the intro
6ucton of saves from abroad. In 17Ol the town Of
Boston instructed It's representatives to pat Pc
"rcd TO negroes being slaves while In l1l2, 10 an
swer to petition for the emancipation Of negro slaves
by law, the Legislature of Pennsyiyania answered
1t is neither just convenient to set Thea at lib
- erty The Colonies, 10 the aggregate we're op-
posed TO the African slave trade Maryland, Virginia
ara even Carolina alarmed at the dangerous increase
of the coored population showed an aox'ous prefer
epce for the introduction of white men aud laws In
t.rdictDg and restricting slave nporatioDs are scat
tered through tie records of colonial legislation
, The fnt Continental Congress in l776, which as
sumed the powers OF legislation, resolved g that no
slaves sbe imported into any OF the thirteen Colo
MES"
In 1857 the civilized world was engaged in the AZ
rcan slave trade. 1t was lawful trade in Portugal,
Spain France, Hollrnd, Denmark, and Sweden; aad
in England and Scotland great and good men we're
ranked among its active or silent promoters In this
sane year the invention for framing the Consultation
Of the United States prohibited the African slave trade
after leCS The original proposition was TO give Coz
e,ess the power to abolish the infamous trafi; from
aId after the year le00 and this was coupled with
another proposition that navigation &C; should be
passed without the assent Of txO.thirds Of the
bers present in each House" The business Of New
Enl land being mainly commercial, che desired 10
free ber navigation interest from this two thirds
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