The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-07
THE DAILY UNION

term Of eight years. inhabitants of the said islands
Voluntarily and without kind Of c~srcion may agree 10
come TO it, uader the following condition.
"The grantee shall not receive nrepayment OF All cost
assigned and to whom with this view their contracts shalt
% sner m than sso i ord ss ss for sash
as are between between eight and eighteen 80 w
The Island of Fernando Pc, need hardly remind the
HOUSE. is situated in the Gulf Of Guinea IA sight Of ns
main land snd IN re- within ,0pS thirty m sr.S :, ola
course the people taken from this region will be Guinea
negroes provided that shall be taken away
but those who agree TO Co. Who will they be- srt why
well known that annually large numbers of slaves are
brought from the interior TO the coast TO be Sold and
when purchasers net found they are Slaughtered IN
large gangs becanse ther aserb Fro aaid TO turn them
loose lefn the iales The females bought usually
BY the kroomen along the shore and as have been in-
formed by our Navy officers stationed on that coast they
command sixteen dollars apiece while the male negroes
may be worth only six or course these negroes, when
they find that it choice between death and ransporta
ton will agree to take the latter and will thus be en-
rolled.
The provision limiting the price for the first class to
204 is pregnant nth suggestions 1t intended to
cripple diminish the trade since il is clear that at
these rates profits will be made by the shippers
and sellers 1t is the contrary, directly intended to
increase the trsfc the frghifu extent the sup
ply is in xhausble. BY thus putting them at low rate,
hepurchasers will be the more tempted The planters Of
Cuba seeing that Their island is to be ruined how will
be forced to conclude that their true interest to get
Of these creatures possible and work them even to
death in eight years Every knows that who hires
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work him harder than the would do Then 1t may
be assumed that not many will survive this period But
should thy even do and be then in good faith liberia
ted how many OF them will in fact reach Africa again
Who that knows the Guinea negro expects them to return
by force of this SpuHish cerac9 No, sir they will re-
main there and these negroes BY their mixture with the
Chinese Coolies the Yueaanese Indians, and the present
black and mongrel population of Cuba, will ill this island
win body OF savsges, that such of the planters as
hs this s ats @ Inc nes Gsss%
condition than it When Columbus crossed the Attain
The acts Of the British Government justify us in
ming that she that the West India Islands likely
to be purs. she has delieraely rtsosed to FUN them is
Tar as 1t in her power lies This is however all professed
to be dohe 10 the mamie of humanity How long it, sir
since Great Britain in yea permitted more than two
millions of her Irish subjects to starve to death Why the
pewsparers satewhethet truly bt n6t cannot tell
that more than wentyone thousand of THIN persisted in
this way during the past year. These things permit
ted TO without any real or sincere effort to prevent
them. In fact, what she has spent her African fleet
have nved the lives every enc Of these white people
Theh leok TO the ghtfuy cruel 81 Stem that is carried
On BY hef in India There population more than fre
ected to the most grinding oppression The land is own
ed by the Government in PLACES and the people are COM
PEELED to work IL and pay half and even iore in some
provinces as rent To collect this exorbitah amount tor
mre 10 babituallt applied to the miserable aborcrs
There dsuht about tits matter. The British Parliament
was forced by public opinion at home to ppolnt co,r
son 90 India and take testimony Their report official
H de shows that to force the aborers to peror more
than human nature is capable Of there constantly and
such as the imagination Of antiquity was able 70 invent
for application in the iiitrna regiohs The mind abso-
utey shrinks back from the atrocities of these detals
large percentage the immense population Of the country
has already persisted most miseaby by these fortunes and
the amines con.equent such exacons And yet Sir,
though these matters have thus been made public in Eng
land and also in this country, and during the last year.
by myself and Others commented on yet they have been
completely ignored by that portion of our Press and those
H. r. uInhar
ters pertaining freedom and humanity. Is it not a
strange spectacle sr2 Bat absorbed are the Aboli-
onsts in their dolatry of everything English that one
could apeak Il EN- in voice louder than seven hunders
they would not hear these things Yes sir If the idea was
harpened IL the keeest point possible and then driven
by the force of engine OF ten thousand horse power
would not be able to make Judgment in their brains
No, sir the genuine Aboonst would look you right In
the face with the sold stupid nsensiby of astone image
Mr. Chairman suppose man were 70 tell you .nat ne was
shocked by cruelty to slaves or servants ana
at the imt you knew that with ample means in his
hands, he lowed his children to sarte to death from
tine to time and that he also had sized upon other per-
sons and because they did perform tasks that exceeded
the powers of human nature torurng them to death
by every of deyh device that malice and cruelty
could suggest would you believe in that mans humanity
Then sir do believe in this kind of British humanity
The beautiful islands that stud American Mediter-
arc in this way likely to be made desoate and to
become the abode Of savages Should they fall into
hands in the march of events they will present serious OBJ
sacs in the way Of turning them to proper account
How long did it take the Pilgrims to kill otherw get
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obstacles did not the present to the settle
ment of the southern States IL Great Britain should
merely retard the occupation of these islands for twenty
Eve fifty years. this would be great deal gained to her
she thinks in the between the two countries II
all these islands placed in the condition that St Do
mngo is how they to be made to answer the pur-
pose for which Providence to have intended them
There precedent in English history which is brought
to mind In the yesr lo66 one William Duke Of Nor
mandy surnaed the Conquero crossed the British chan
mel with body of his followers. He beat down the Eng
ish in battle, killed their monarch and seized upon the
island He then divided its territory and inhabitants
among his followers. cannot cay Mr. Chairman, that
approve of this precedent because the hrbaired white
skinned Saxons then ensaved have since shown that they
emineny worthy of the freejom that they have by
| their intellect and courage recovered
| But would the remark apply to the negro
anywhcre2 Suppose that Lopez, Walker or some other
Norman Sputman ilibuster, should make descent
ST. Domingo cou6scae the island and divide its territory
and people sh least did not choose TO emgrate
from i among bis followers, the civilized world would be
gamer and its present population probably not losers
lish writer that Cufee living laziy squashes has
right expect that he is forever TO ncumber these fine
islands but that somebody other WILL of these
days. set him to work. and make him produce sugar co
fee and the like things which Providence seems to have
intended these islands to yield for the benefit Of mankind
At least Cuees title to obstruc proper use of these
West Indies not better than that of the original
ilzaon these banks of the Potomac which our mag
| ni6cent Capitol now stands.
Great Britain has too been sending her Jamaica free
negroes into Central America to Arcanize it likewise
Such being her policy viz TO prevent IL possible
QUESTION of territory; aud IL this attempt on her part
should fail at least to render the territory of little value
possible what has government been doing
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