The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-21
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u.r.~.t M the Afric an slave Trade.
This grea, question, under the name Of free emf
grafton, il now ssitatng the public mind OF Eng
land and France and mus, awaken, for many rea-
sons serious reaecs tons In this country Inc
French government as we have before noticed, have
entered into contract with house at Marseiiies'
which has long been engaged In the west African
trade for the introduction Of 10000 free negroes
from that coast into their West India Islands ana
the FIRST vessel OF the contracting merchants mas.
Il IL added already left Narcotics for the port OF
whydah This Is the most faTnosn slave port on the
coast--the port whence the King Of Dahofney used
TO export his slaves 1t appears that the sPah'sh
government, too, has a great scheme for Supplying
Cuba with African labor, without infringing any 81
the slave trade treaties with England The Sho9e.'
a. our readers aware, has been taken up y, '"e
press of England with great animation inc D'"
don Times discusses It with much soih'y, anu mas
discovered that it Is not for the interests"
tion that productive estates should go out OF cult
vation or that an article Of almost hrst necessity
.hon,d fail In the European markets. 1t would.
s;tirnste supply of labor, established by proper
communications between Africa and the West In
dies" It exclaims: "Bt IL remspabersd, Otnt there
u no humanity IL, lenving 5hTco 10 its>lf Many Of
its tribes and especially those the coast. bav"
been brutalized by the prevalence u the very traf
&c have been considering, and even those Of the
interior though less debased. still sayages and
heathens. The work Of instruction and CONVEX
sion cannot be more eTectually prosecuted than
through q system which woud maintain a constant
communication between Africa and other parts Of
the world. Africa is rich in races Of men who can
endure tropical labor and Il is 0Hotoed on all hands
that ,Uhen sdrs sceH trented their condition acas
superior, not only To that of their cntrymen at ham,,
but 10 that Of The poer CLASSES MANY parts NJ Eu
rope Why should not such result be now es-
tabished as a general condition Of things! Why
should not the engagement Of black labor. stripped
of the evils Of slavery by the certified existence OF
freedom. at restore colonies to prosperity,
and introduce Africa to better days? II any person
should still be apprehenslve about tho position Of
negroes In the hands Of planters, under what name
soever. we commend to his notice final agu
ment that this promises to be the only effectual
method of abolishing slavery. Slave labor. and
therefore the slave trade NAV be driven out Of the
field by labor of q more lawful description though
IL has not yet been extrpated by any means we
could adopt. Even if tho importation Of blacks,
therefore, into the West Indies be evil it ia far
the smaller Of the two. Better, surely, have sys
tenn of engagements under the immediate cogni-
rance of "a protecting authority than system,
which, in spite of all that be done, leaves the
slave trade in active vitality with all the catalogue
of atrocities which follow In its train
These are important admissions by the leading
organ of public sentiment in Great Britain. "There
Is no humanity in leaving Africa to itself" "The
condition of slaves, when well treated, is not only
superior to that Of their countrymen at home, but
that of the poorer classes many parts of Europe"
That which has effected remarkable change
OF sentiment in the Times, is the deplorable cond
ton of the British West India islands, well nigh
ruined by the costly experiment of negro emanc
patton, and the constantly advancing prices of tro
pical products. But TO apply the name of free emf
grafton TO the schemes advocated by the Times, is
an absurdty on its face. The Times says, There
IL no humanity in leaving Africa to itself"-an ad
mission superiuous as II is bold if the proposed
emigration does not palpably conflict with the free
will of the emigrants The London News justly
says that this free emigration is either deusion
or an imposition; that experience has proved that
along the whole coast of Africa there is but one
class, the Kroomen, who will voluntarily leave
their country and they seek service in English
vessels In UrueF 10 llttle money, return
their own country, and purchase an additional
slave in the shape Of a wife; that the labor Of the
West coast of Africa is all more less slave labor,
which being the condition of labor, where is the
voluntary emigration to come frOmf The plain
English of the whole scheme is that negroes, under
pretended contract for term of years, will be
distracted from the coast of Africa, and worked to
death in the British, French and Spanish West
India islands before their term of service has ex.
pired. The system will be ten-fold more cruel and
inhuman than African slavery, because it will be
the interest of the master to get all the work he
can out of the apprentice, without regard to health
or life, whilst the fact that but male appren-
tees shipped will make the system far more
demoralising than slavery in its worst form.
There can be no doubt that this new scheme will
be carried out and the rich products of the tropics
saved from the devastation of barbarisn. But
what will be the course of this country! How will
she supply the deficiency of laborers i'll her cotton
fields viii Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, be drained Of their slave peasantry to
carry on the culture of this great staple, or will
apprenticeship be resorted to? Time will deter.
mine; but, whatever our course, we hope it will
be taken boldly, calling things by their right
names, and eschewing the sickening hypocrisy and
cant of European philanthropy.