New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-28

been entered by ssve s'lpe '" p'irsn" w s"'Y'N "
Ipdiats Even spe glory nj CoaDbus himself dd not
essses the s,sis-icr be -usaved FIVE snedred nih'e
Americans nd sent them to Spain to ne 1u'hey soil
az Seville Tep-aciice of thGs kiinipp'ns AMI seing
II. n.tiyef of North america iuto foreicn bonfsss'
continued for nearlv two centuries Es-n she trr'es
of the early New Erciand contederscy, cii-s p'r'ls
sucrg tbe spos Of war and tie scss'y reninsnts ot
several tribes rcadrR the orphan offspring Of h'ng
Phil himself We're all doomed the hard sstiny OF
perpetual bondage
The Epghsh traffic IN negro slaves began 10 l5jI.
John HsstDs. 10 the pro-ecnrion OF ce 'nnercal en-
terprise yiied Sierra LeOoe e. trids with the Nv
tiyes; ard while there by seductive descriptions of
TIE geni,l climate snd proiu 'tiyeuess of the New
World, be persuaded zone of them t. go there ~'a
bin The night p-.vi u. t. his ssUg, hostile tribe
mace an attack upou theu. aud he with bis crew, re
pulsed the as.silants, captured many and took then
along q. prsopers. He ssile1 TO Hispani0ls Hiyti)
asd there fpdiog prof able market be sid INTO
sevtude Dot oul he prisoners he had taken. bnt also
those natives be Rad seduced by ,eral offers ani at
rsctiye Representation accompany him from Sierra
Leone Hawkins returned to Ecgl,nd. and COM
plant preferred sgaiu.t hin for this bsroirols
act; nut be successful, excused rimsef and
t
natives fron he.tDepish bsrbsrism end placed them
uro or = blessed influences Of Christianity Toe re-
turr so bs first English negro trafckng voyage we're
80 ricn 10 sugar ginger and pearls. that the second
voysee OF Hawkins, in 1867, was under the prote,-
tion oi Queer Elizabeth, s1e shar og in the profits
thereof TIE negroes were forclbly seized, their
towns burned and the fend like strOc res com
ntre6 arc in hazards profits and crimes thereof
the sovereign of Eoeland participated
It il noteworthy fact that at one time or another,
every Christian IOteDtste ana Government has sane
ti,ped the slave treie between Africa ard America,
say, onl, the Pope of the Rome Leo Y, whose pom
tifcate wss contou0us carnival declared that not
The Christian religion only. bu; nature herself cries
"out agaius the stare of Slavery; aud Paul ILL., 10
1891 imprecated on the Europeans who should
ensaye Indians my other class sf men Spanish
vessels. sailing voyage of discovery we're each
attended by Roman priest, 10 prevent kldnspptng.
Kin enes the celebrated FRANCISCAN inqulstor OF Fer
dnapd ard Isabea, refused to sanction the ntrOduc-
ton Of negroes into ispapiols but the reason as
si.ned for his refusal was that the favorable climate
would SO largely increase their numbers toleai to
successful revolt retribuon long afterwsrd
manifested bis sagacity, for H4yti, (Iispano!a) the
fret spot in America that received African slaves was
the first to set the example of African liberty!
The fret att. mpt 10 tr,fc 10 Afrcsn slaves by the
American colonisrs occurred in 1915 ship owned
by Thomas Keyser and James Smith the latter men,
Der OF tie church in BOstol, called for Gpioea to
trade for negroes" aud returned with csrg, of
human beings. The cry of " Baefactors and murder
"ers was raised agsD't them throughout Mas-achu-
sets; the act was ofci,iy denounced as expressly
contrary to the law OF Goo and the law OF The coun
"try :" and sitter advice with the Elders of the
Church, tse representatives of the people bearing
swiiDe,s against the henOus crime OF man stealiog,
IL ,ros ordered hat the negroes be restored at the
public charge to their native country, with let
ter expressig tbe Indignation Of the General Court
at the wrong
Conditional serviude, under ndentures, existed
from the first in Vrpbia. In l6l9 the King ordered
one hundred disoDte persons, in prison to be trans
ported thtber and distributed among the planters as
servants Oppression eusued and mea who had been
Transported ut an expense OF eight ten pounds
often sold for cry sixty ponds The supplying of
Whit servants became regular business and there was
elias. OF persons in England called "spic's, whose bu
ness to deude young people servants aud lolers
into enbarkng for America, az for land o. spoutane
GUS plenty. These servants came to beau article OF
trsfic-fhey were sod in England to be trans nsported
and IN Virginia we're rs-sold 10 the highest bidder
Like negroes they we're TO be purchased on ship
board a. uen buy horses at fair So usual was this
traffic in Erelistmen that the Scots who were taken
in the field Of Dunbar were sent into involuntary
sersitude in New-EDg gland the royalist prisoners OF
the battle Of Worcester the leaders in the insurrec
ton of Pepruddock, were shipped to America as
slaves And in 1855, thousand of tie gallant parti
sars of the Duke of Monmouth were transported as
eloDs to America and influential courtiers, with rival
importupiiy scrambled for them for merchsntible
commodity.
This state of lsbor-tbs iDhuman trade in the flesh
and blood Of Epglishmen, readily admitted into the
American coloies the introduction of African seryl-
tudo. And ia the month of Augus. 1920 fourteen
months after be first representative assembly OF Vlr-
pnia four months before the Plymouth colony landed
in America more than century after the last vesges
of hereditary slavery had disappeared from English
society spd the English Constitution, and six years
after the Commons OF France had petitioned for the
eu sDciI alton Of every iefa Dutch ship from Guinea
entered James River, in Virginia, with q cargo OF
regroes and the planters bought tbem-snd this was
the beginning Of ne gro slavery in the English colo
pies
IN lGSs persons coming into the colony of Virginia
who were not Christians in their native country were
subjected Slavery if converted TO C1risanty
afterwards ard the killing of slave by his master
was 10 felony No law expressly authorizing Slavery
was ever enacted BY any of the New England States
Corpeeicut at an early period declared man stealing