The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-29
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NAPOLEoN's GREAT AYRIcAN SLAVE CONTRACT.
From the London News, July =
Although the Earl Of Clarendon has no official nforma-
the act nevertheless quite true thai the French
governments have entered into contrast with MArseles
oure for ,hs supply Of 10000 (not 10000 Africans 70
gnsd by the French Ministers Of Marine and Foreign AZ
rs Of the part and 4ersrs Regis Of Marscilies Of
he other part on the 18Th 18Th Of March last
prsibIe, in less time. to transport 5000 blacks Qua
aloupe and a. many to Martinique, thero to work
4 twelve francs fifty cenmes month. out of
rhich each negro 20 imported has TO pay at the rae Of tOo
.ss:s sr &C., r. ss {. %% t zoo is". rs
egs undertake 10 employ In this service large
capable Of containing 500 passengers and for each
duh i'm migrant, male female they 10 receive 500
ancs or go sterling One Of these steamers has, we
no assnret, already rallied.
Il the contract contain any sspuiations binding the
esseurs Regis 10 ship only negroes who voluntarily
nder themselves for emigration, not to pay money
lduce negroes to board their vessels the alb
tract whch has been allowed TO trauspre makes not the
males. reference to such stpulatons So far appears
restrictions whatever are placed on the contractors
,ey have the entire coast Of Western Afros (exce Of
ourfe, the Bith fettlements where, thank Tod, they
Annot Gomez operate upon hey may obtain the blacks
bcDce ana how they can, all that the French government
es where they are to be condemned to labor for tea
ears wages less for than the value of
osk tor week in the adjoining British possessions.
This is . commerce-for the whole affair is one Of ba
ain and salewhich If permissible at all, ought 70 have
surrounded by every safeguard that humanity and
gepuiy could suggest. ought 10 have been confined
hr the French settlements where the Freneh itho
tiles ,ould have supervised and reported It, Il ought
ever extended beyond them, 70 have been limited to
Aces where the slave trade had been long since extinct
here the French government has consua OF knowledge
nd experience Of the localities; above ALL wherever
I'D the ampleet securities ought to havo been taken
raj the emie ration was really free and unbroed. when
nd 10 such im'aon no such securtes the doporaoe In
must be drawn that long the French JONES
btan thousand Afr TO work for ten long weary
ears on their sugar neld at wages mseraby inadequate
" good days work, the French government does
Are very much whence or how these hborers are OBJ
uDe1
If Dat So are in danger Of neD s,as trade un
oseo AMI carrit not by pri la livduas by
ea ana powerful government 10 the aud behalf OF
naton amongst the nr,t In Europe 70 the ola
lave rede This will indeed be retrograde policy. Bat
erogression is us now so universal characteristic of
all in pol cy so thoroughly material that We must rot
surprised 1t project Involving even suca guilt as ths
Some years ago Sic, "a Leone was opened 10 West
sd,an colonies But Sierra Leone Ia Thoroughly organ
ed q Br ish pos ession as jamaica. At the lime 1t
pened Sierra Leone the depot for Africans liberated
| vm slavers II e government yards there crowd
With human beings, whom we hal rescued from the
errors of the Middle Passage from death slavery "A
employ ment for them In the settlement their
,a'ntepsDce heavy burden the British govern
cent To reievs itself from that burden, 1t promoted
,eir free emig,,ton TO the West Indies But TIE ~un.
~hich coid be induced 20 engrdte comparatively
nail and NE experiment. Of tntrodng barbaroas hbsra Ell
9cans anonga the more cuioaed black peasa'ary Of the
vpsoa color euery respect failed But tue gov
| aros at sierra Leone empty Many of the
egroes who passed through them have aided in founding
here, under the Influence Of the Church Msiorary So
| ety, o far greater experiment s ir prog ess
ow FREE MIGRANTS CAN BE PROCURED IN AFRICA.
trom the Manchester Guardian July
Pe,ple who well acquainted with the west coast OF
inca deny that II s obtain negroes for service
the terms which amount 10 purchase
their bodes. may not be dincult 70 get men, and 10
a.. ,heb
hey are embark but told that tho effects
rica in revving the bloody contests Of native cupdi,y
no in cheering the legitimate pursuits which have, 70
mort deplorsbe. These views are strongly urged by
correspondent Of the London TINS VINO details chat 1t Is
ossbe to ship thousand free blacks from the west
osst Of africa under any temptation whatever.
| Ione Of those who are ut liberty 70 regulate
scep on edition Of being bros gh, back IN few months
hi there another question, viz can they go, except
be bidding, and OF course, at tho profit Of BARBARIAN
aAsterf Except In the towns aud villages Of the Eu-
opcsn settlements" Says M Foster there Ia not
rec negro on the coast az Africa There pot de
~ea inds,s Of his free wi, even II he we're 30 IN
tuned, and doubt wneher there "a ono man 30 inclined
the whole coast II will be said that officers may be
pponed TO zee that they are not shipped against their
Vii This protection pausioe 10 persons igno
Of the condition OF the Brt let euppose that
he poor ignorant IN rens. to embark What
roud happen, He woud he tarned bsk hands OF
III master or the deAler and etnor murdered
s.mgc, or starred and whipped TILL he consented 10 en-
| WHAT rHg NEW SLAVE TRADE WILL EFFECT.
From the London News jay
me West India body pretend that by the free introduc
o Of barbarous African labor into their sugar fields they
vho have hitherto been the wssefu producers In
be worlds III become the chea pest and U by t chap
sss Of her free idtor produce render sidre labor
soasAsd and TIE slave trade brought 10 az end
rhis Il their theory their prctence There Is noning
,ewn On The contrary, = an Old tale revived sna re
)ropeed TO seek All the world over Tor the free aSor thai
TO work this uirace and make their fortunes at the
limo Nov they nitrate their demaad for fcco
Abor ON ,ha. SPOT alone perhaps the world they
ammo, &c, free lsbor-we'tern Africa
The nducement they offer their country for u, sanction
pr iect Ia the suppression or the tnye
xade Thp ga great iemr;ahon, no doubt We have,
however let u recoect, some selve or thirteen sugar
colonies in the West dies all OF them waniiag labor
MANY Them large and most ertileoue OF them (3uia
nal caTabe n receiving and employing millions Of Arr
cans fAu qAes,ea al ono, nye',o '7at srea gre ,cs
Csba Bror stdll N crssnc, # Wet kadsd, pros
PRIV h. abolished asd tie Stare trade y trmindteY Let q.
have s,mte OF the great oyer sons upon which VIC
are invited "a enter 10 tens hun ireds OF
millions of sfricsDsy Docs aim necessary
70 carry out this West Indian tn ory edepopuson OF
wet ricsS Are 10 plunge into II indeotitey, with
estimate without calculation, and perseyers until Cuba
and Brazil have abolisbed slavery and until the slave
trade In eriermBaedY let ne come to close quarters
With the project, and know what really means ana In
clndes.
small en- israOn frt N Africa to fifteen West In
dian possessions would have inaeuce In working out
the experiment Such additions 70 the WORKING popua
might bring down wages In these colonies little, but
hA Is not the ground which the national ascent and
appreciation are asked N this scheme. me great
objeci only be achieved by great, an enormous
emigration And what ve desire 70 know Is :. no. OF,
rea, how enormous this emigration u proposed 10 bel
cbs has already sve popuisuoo OF 1000, Brazil OF
600 Thee are the numbers rhoss the West
Indian protect has 70 render Improbable The euserprse
b not therefore hsh, In The name Of ali that Ia
rational Vet ne have notion of lie extent before We
wildly rush 10 lac support Don't let be amused and
uchled Into appreciation by syllogism In political econ,
ny which no one disputes. Abundance or superabun-
dance OF free labor 10 colosies might could.
should would render the slaves Cubs and the
800 900 slaves m Brazil at some period other In the
omcsl history Of the future, aud Iced
heir emancipation But are Eng aud France 70 set
about oepopulsiiDg West Africa on such Vague and
iIfimitabe may bel
NO MIGRANTS ros CusA TILL sLAvKaY 10 ADD.
LIsaED THsRE.
Iron the London Globe, July
Hb oeveus thai the whole question respe ang the pro
prtesy OF this step upon the securities for the
iar reatmen, Ct the i'm ngr ants. II any arrangement, o..
ford Brousha remarked n about 70 be made for tho ex
poyatIon OF free negroes from tho coast OF Africa security
II ho~n A fhn 49,