The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-09

and the Carter case in Philadelphia, are the
most recent but not the least remarkable de-
velopements of the kind.
The French Slave Trads-Negro Hunting In
Africa.
The new French slave trade seems to be pros
pering very well, notwithstanding the noise
made in the British Parliament lately, and the
assurance given by the British Ministers on the
occasion Of our denouncing, some months since,
this new system Of slave importations into the
French West Indies.
We announced some weeks since, the arrival
at Martinique and Guadalupe of several csrgoes
of negroes from the coast of Africa, and the
announcement of the Governor Of those colonies
that the measure WAS intended as one Of per-
manent relief to the planters. Several months
ago we exposed the whole scheme, and the con-
tract of the French Minister of Marine with the
house of Regis Co., of Marseilles, who carry
on large trade with Africa, to supply several
thousand free emigrants, who were to be ap-
prcnticed for term of years AT that time we
showed up the whole scheme a. being worse
form Of slavery than the system Of servitude for
life, as it relieves the master or employer from
all obligation to support the negro after
he expiration of his years of labor
shall have left him an aged and in
firm pauper. The British humanitarians
and the French Socialists replied to our expo
sure by stating that the negro was to be taken
from Africa of his own free will only, and that
consequently he would not be slave; and that
the respective governments would see that he
had every protection at the time of entering
upon his apprentice engagement.
Recent advices from the coast of Africa show
us how these fine promises have been and are
being carried out. The Manchester Guardian
contains letter from Mr.. Campbell, the British
Consul at Lagos, dated the 18th of September,
to the following purport:-
His Imperial Majesty of France having taken to pur
chasing slaves in this quarter whole host Of unwashed
bearded Spanards Portuguese and Americans have
followed his example; and if his Imperial Majesty persists
in continuing to purchase slaves at Whydah, fear we
must say good bye to cotton from this part OF Africa AL
ready have gone TO hunt for slaves. The
Ibaddans, and warlike people than the
Abopku,ans preparing to do the same in the Taboo
country, near to Lagos.
Lagos and Whydah, or Ayudah, as it is some
times called, were two of the great seats of the
old slave trade, and almost the last places where
it was stopped.
Now we have to protest against this renewal
of the slave trade under the fallacious plea of
apprenticeship and free labor. If full grown
negroes are to be caught in the wilds of Africa,
and brought to America to serve ten or fifteen
years, in order to build up the decaying colonies
of France and England, we demand, in the name
of humanity, that they shall be guaranteed la
Dor adequate to their physical powers, and q
support for life. The labor of q sugar planta-
ton, in any of the West India islands, will wear
out the best negroes in ten years; and that he
shall have no claim after that upon the man
who has exhausted his prime, is the most cruel
of all servitudes. We point, without hesitation,
to the condition of the aged and infrm free ne
groes in Jamaica, the French West Indies, and
everywhere that the mistaken theories of the
emancipstionists have been put in practice. We
acknowledge the great need in civilized Europe
of cotton, sugar, and other fruits of the tropical
fields where the negro only can labor. We
have long knswn what the London Times has
only lately discovered-that these fruits cannot
be produced without capital, skill, labor and
organization but the true organization is not
one that works out the prime Of the laborcr,
neglect by the roadside. In our system of
negro slavery . black pauper is thing un-
known; in the free islands of the West Indies
black pauperism is the rule, and is eating out
society.