The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-08-05
From the New Orleans Picaymc.
THE SAME THING UNDER AN
OTHER NAME.

giving us the news from Europe, informs
us that there was Il movement in ENGLAND
In favor OF african emigration To which
that country, France, Spain and Portugal
are to be parties, and To be bound by
treaties for It's prosecution, as an anti.
slavery measure.
We have had some in .imations before
of this notable scheme. Abolitonism, it
seems, does not pay. Theoretically, it is
good theme for Exeter Hall, and an
admirable anti American text. but, as
pracucal experiment. in the experience
OF Britain, it has failed. The siucws of
recupcrativc labor are TO he loand, il seems,
| for the West India Islands, IN n new svs.
tenn, african emigration = The slave
trade is an abhorrent ilea in that fast
anchored isle upon the soil of which
whoever treads is, ipSo tdcto free. But
African emigration may be very litlcr
ent thing especially if, by its operation,
somebody is likely to make more out Of
it than somebody else.
This has been n plan hroachel by
wide awake Frenchman, one Mons. Rccis,
Of MarseiIles, for the transportation OF
some twenty thousand African 'apprenti.
ces' to the French Colonies and YES.
sci, as late accounts informed us, provided
with French and English Passports, has
actually sailed lrom Marsci!cs for the
coast Of Africa. For what purpose
or course, not 10 engage in the unholy,
detcstthc, dctcstcd; and by the agree
inent Of the whole civilized world, (,hc
luttg'l States having taken the Initiative
Illegal and contraband slave trade. No;
but TO invest certain '.rinkcrs OF small
value in engaging native Africans to 90
to Guadaloule and Martinique, on a ten
years apprenticeship. That is the plan
and - Spanish Journal published at Bar.
ceiona, abiding TO II, expresses the opn.
I"n that II is AN experiment that vii! be
often repeated, aud sees in it an excellent
means Of supplying Cuba and Porto Rico
with the additional labor, they require,
/ ~ the absence Of. the abrogated slave
trade. The Lean Esponol, a government
! organ, also iutmatcs that the means have
BEEN found for supplying those islands
! with abundant labor, which will immcdi-
a'"iy he made operative, without in any
degree Infringing the anti slave trade tea.
ties OF Spain with England,
'Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot :"
But, it must not he all the plot Of
| France and Spain. There are other is
lands in the Western hemisphere than
Cuba, Porto Rico, Martinique and Guada-
!oupe The triparti,c alliance must be
harmonious, and whatever there may be
or may not be, in France and Spain, in
/ England there is a people, and one that
/ Is very apt to look with curious eyes into
| The actions of their constituents, the Gov
! eminent. How - this article in the terms
! Of tle a'.i"mcc to be made palatable to
! them
Why, marry, thus England has col
"nico, too, in the West Indies. Dilapida.
ted, diSIniegraied, unproductivc, and bur
| tA"nsome, 1t is true, and that, too, in con.
sequence Of mistaken philanthropy, at
war wi h all experience and the PLANES:
I teachings # human ature-but still,
/ tn-h>h cu.uuics. Shall this newly dis.
covered means Of recupeia'ino the encr-
g'"s ama renewing the productiveness Of
! these dependencies euure to France and
/ Span n.DHc, and the otder member Of the
alliance have no part in its bencfcent re-.
/ suits And, moreover, has not British
( commerce rs good right as that Of
7 Spain or France 10 avail itself OF such a
brilliant opening rs this new system o!
supplying labor for the colonies presents 2
What WONDER then, that we find that
the London Times sees IN this very ra.
/ tiona! and benevolent mode OF putting
| down the African slave trade by introiu
/ eng tie African apprentice trade What
wonder that we now hear Of n committee
OF Exeter Hall pE.lanihropist calling on
/ L"rd PaImerston TO unite with France,
Spain and Portugal, and extinguish for
ever the African slave trade hy subs,itu
'ng this new system Of African sppren.
/ tIceship for term Of years
1t was the fair Jaiiet, in the play, we
I believe, who said
whats in name That which we call a rose
By eny other nams would smell az sweet :"
and the fair Veroneso was right. You
may send your ships to the coast Of Afri.
ca, ircighted with glass beads, and bright
feathers, and gay ribbons, with which to
bind your bargains for ten years labor Of
the African apprentice you may convey
him across the ocean, (torgetfuI OF all
( your former eIoquence about the horrors
OF the middle passage,O and land him,
under the name OF an apprentice, upon
your colonial shores. But you cannot
alter his status, in relation TO the people
you place him among. You cannot make
him "ught but slave, call him what you
may.
We shall await the development Of
this notable scheme Of our ST ecial friends,
the phiIanthropists, with no little curiosity
and interest.