The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-11-26
rfiE fRENoH SLAVE TRApE..NKaRo iuNT.
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and tho assurance given ty the British
Ministers OH the occasion of our dcnounc.
lug, some months since, this new system of
slave importntions into tic. French West
Indies.
We announced, some weeks since, tho
arrival at Martinique and Guadaloupc of
several cargoes of negroes from the coast
of Africa, and tho announcement of the
Governors Of those colonies that the meas
ure was intended as one Of permanent re.
lief 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 emigranls, who
were to be appren,iced for a term of years.
At that time we showed up the whole
scheme AS being IL 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 the
expiration of his years of labor shall have
left him an aged and inirm pauper. The
British hunanitarians and the French So
cialists replied to our exposure by stating
that the negro was to be taken from Africa
of his own free will only, and that consc-
quently he would not be slave and that
the respective governments would see that
he had every protection at the time of en-
tering upon his apprentice engagement.
Recent advice from the coast of Africa
show us how these fine promises have hecn
and arc being carried out. The Mancles-
ter Gardian contains letter from Mr.. Camp
bell, the British Consul at Cages, dated the
18th Of September, to tho following pur-
port {:
Ellis Imperial Majesty Of France having
taken to purchasing slaves in this quar-
ter, whole host of unwashed, bearded
faced Spaniards, Portuguese and Americans
have followed his example, and if his I'm
perla Majesty persists in continuing to pur-
chase slaves at Whydah, fear we must
say goodbye to cotton from this part Of
Africa. Already the Abeokutans have
gone to hunt for slaves. The Ibaldans, a
more numerous and warike people than
the Abeokutans, are preparing to do the
same IN the Jaboo country, near to Lagos
Lagos and Whydal, or Ayudah, as it is
sometimes 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 re-
newal Of the slave trade under the f.lacious
plea of apprenticeship and free labor. If
full grown negroes arc TO be caught in the
wilds of Africa, and brought to America
to- serve ten or fifteen years, in order to
build up the dccayng colonies of France
and England, we demand, in the name of
humanity, that they shall be guaranteed
labor adequate to their physical powers,
and support for life. The labor of
sugar plantation, in any Of tho 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 serviudes.
We point, without hesitation, to the condi.
ton OF the aged and infrm free negroes in
Jamaica, the French West Indies, and every
where that the, mistaken theories of the
emancipationists'bave 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 known what the
London Times has only lately discovered
that these fruits cannot be produced with,
out capital, skill, labor and organization ,
but the true organization is not one that
works out the prime of the laborer, and then
thrust him out 10 die of disease and neolect
,by tue roadside. In our system of negro
slaysry black pauper is n thing unknown;
in tile free island of the West Indies black
pauperism is tife rule, and is eating out So.
ciety.-N Y Herald.
Looking Bsanaout Of .Countenance.-
A few nights since, one Of our citizens
was aroused from bis sumbers BIZ ssome.
thing pulling the blankets off his bsd.ssAs
it was near day lie concluded it was one sof
his f"n-loving, early risinge chums playing.
him practical joke SO reaching out, his
hand he caught lheiculrritsby the ehaifsso,f
bis head, .as he supposed, wl,ileswi.lgihe.
other hand lie struck light, at the same:
tins threatening vengeance on tie INTRUDER
ne SO firmly l'eld'by the l1aiif sTbe iigh.
bIHzed up and he leaned over to gssa view
at the prisoner who had said mary word !.
and, seemed 70 squat to keep out Of! sight.
Imagine hiscohsternation on fipdinssis fad
a',s hand elptcbed in the hair on tile eslhek
Of e live bear. Here was q FIX. .His grin ! s
rslsxed, and 'drapping', tlfS least, here