The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-04-23
ruE DAILY DISPATCH.
$500 1900 ,.r.,us. AnriI %, 1857.
r.>l;a alUve Trade.

Th8F000y NJ 0bWfp4s n.y.
she CeoIie slave Trade'
80 .u.re that q white slave TRACE
8. 80 a. uxe,v operation between CHINA ana we
Yves, India IsIsnds and Brazil "a sfue Ho ~
80 ,.r,orss,ess "a the African slave uade ~ .ns
-, If n. horrors. The protested object OF THIS
.r,as IA to supply the West Ineies' 'he'u'."s
"a o,hsr free colonies Of Great Britain,
-,.h ,,oro .fse,spt isborers than negroes. The
- ch,,.ss before leaving their native land,
-. hssu,ed into binding themselves 70 An ap-
..,,,.e.h;n far eieh, years, transparent device,
,...a.a "a conceal from the world. well ~ from
.,,,,,,. If the detestable fraud, the horrible
~ an stealing and perpetual slavery when are car
r;ea on. uuder pretence OF contract tnas ends ~
.oon A. the ships anchor Is hoisted and her dole
fpI VOYAGE Il begun. The reader Is fAmihar win
v,,nnes describing the sufsrings endured In Afri'
e,n slave ships. by the crowded masses who COM
nose the cargo, but If he has ever seen picture
which can surpsss the hideous horrors of this
C,olIs slave trade, Is must have been sketcn
drawa by the gloomy imagination OF some Dante
of the s.upeodous woes Of the internal pit.
Northern journal now before us, the New YORK
Express, says that the poor uretches, after oeing
deliberately entrapped toto perpetual slavery I'M
der the gaise Of . contract of apprenticeship are
packed closely together on board ship, IN style
which pats to the blush the painted horrors OF Inc
middle passage The tropical voyages last iof
months; hunger thirst and disease torture ana oe
s.roy the wretehed victims; maddened by despair,
they often murder each other and commit suicide
whs. the putrid corpses of the dead are permitted
TO tester for days among the living, converting
the ship into . foating sepulchre. These facts
ara given by an intelligent Northern journal,
whose testimony cannot be impeached, and which
further says TIA. Of ,52 Coolies, comprising four
eargoes designed for the island of Cuba, $50 or
more than one-third OF the whole number, perish
ed on the passage 10 some instances out of 800
in ship, 200 lad died. In March, 1853, the Bri-
fish ship Gertrude shipped 1873 Cinnamon for
Havana, of whom 49, died The total number
arrived in Cuba since April. 1855, is 10 534; died
On the voyage, 1883.
Bat, horrible as is the suffering on the voy-
age, i. does not surpass the miseries endured
by the poor captives after they have commenced
their career of servitude. An Erglishman, who
communicates his experience and observation IN
Cuoa 10 the London Times, says that, on arriving
at Havsna the cooie 10 transferred to the highest
iider, who places him upon bis plantation side
by side with the slaves where he Is exposed to the
same toll and watched by the same overseer But
his condition Is more wretched and intolerable
than that Of the negro. Mocked by the payment
of . few dollars month, and his term OF service
limited eight years., his master, whose interest
In him then expires, works him with such severity
that, on an average, the coolies reach the end OF
life before the end of their term of labor! Let
Il be remembered that these are not African saw
ages, elevated from an abyss of oarbarism to the
heathful industry and Christian civilization of
Southern States, but that according to this intelii'
gent English Witness many of them have been
uuaccustomed In their own country to hard man
ual labor; some have In former life filled profes.
sionai or respectable positions in society, and
many prove themselves able to undertake the
MANAGEMENT Of the steam engines in the sugar
refinery, or to fulfil duties in the machine shops
And now, who does the reader suppose are the
chief agents In this most hideous and atrocout
slave trade which annually tortures, destroys and
consigns to the most cruel servituds thousands Of
white men, and men frequently of high order o.
intelligent aad renaementa Tell it not in Gath
Abolition England tokss the lead, and the Free Sol
States of tais Republic como nert According to the
very last arriva! from Havana, the British shit
Catherine Glenn had arrived there with 435 Coolies
Read the following Havana statistics of the trade