Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-15
COUNTY, OHIO SATURDAY AUGUST 49, 1857


are carried away into Slavery form but sma
, portion of the victims annually sacrificed to thi
{ heinous system.
1 LiBERIA.--Although no slaves are embarkc
9 from any part of the territory of this Republi,
nor any procured within its jurisdictions it is tn
: opinion of Her Ma;esty's Consul of Monrovia this
slavers occasionally touch at that port, and gai
information which enables them successfully
evade the cruisers. One of these vessels tn
D alexander Mitchell, cast anchor in the port
0 Monrovia on the 10Th of August, 1855, and. earl
in December of the same year, shipped 500 slave
, a little below Cape Pamas.
THE SnERBRo.-IIer Majesty's Consul at thi
station reports that the indigenous slave trade wa
being prosecuted with great activity by the Susoo
and MandigOs Slaves in considerable number,
! were constantly transported in canoes from the
hlttam, Gallinas and Boom countries, through
the Sherbro waters, to places northward of the
colony of Sierra Leone, not less than twelve oil
them having passed during one month alone. Mr.
Hanson, the Consul states that this traffic was not
carried on purely for domestic purposes but with
the foreign slavedealers. In the month of De.
cember 1850, capture of two canoes was effect ed
within two miles of the Banana islands having
elghty-slx slaves on board, and in January 1856
three more were taken, with ll9 persons. Span
ish slavers appear to have made the Turtle Islands
their headquarters, whence, it is presumed, the
!
waters were shipped for Cuba.
BRAzIL-The slave-trade to this country may be
considered Rs extinct; a result attributable to the
vigorous measures adopted for its suppression by
the Brazilian Government. 1t is scarcely 30 be
expected, however, that isolated attempts to land
slaves will not be made, from time to time, owing
to the high prices negroes are fetching; but there
| is every reason to hope that the designs of the
dealers will be frustrated. Two attempts of the
L lnV la1 md tbn,,a a.
which appear to have occurred. In the first, the
local authorities Of Bahia effected the capture of
the Mary u. Smith, Boston SLAYER, with 3S7 on
board This took place on the Goth of January
1886. Another capture had been made on the
18th OF October 1855, Of 1873 Africans out of
cargo of 25O landed at Serinhaem, the whole Of
whom would probably have been secured, but for
what appears to have been the guilty connivance
OF the Delegate Commandant of the province in
facilitating the landing, for which he was per-
em2torily dismissed from his Office by the central
Government.
CUBA.-Your Committee regret to state that the
slave trade of Cuba continues to be extensively
prosecuted, in violation of the treaties between
Spain and this country. What prospect there is
OF its speedy suppression may be Judged Of by the
closing extract from the Annual Rep ort of 1855 of
Her Majesty's Acting Commissary Judge at
Havana dated l4th January 1856. lie says ad.
dressing the Earl of Clarendon:
81 wish that could convey to your Lordship
any greater assurance of the slave-trade being put
an end to. The Penal Law of Spain, as it is at
present. does not reach the parties engaged in the
detestable traffic; and presumng that General
Concha is heartily disposed to put it down, his
authority is insufficient to punish those whom he
may be morally satisfied have engaged iu ior aid
ing and abetting in its being carried on"
Your COmmitte cannot refrain from commenting
upon this opinion, as being not only contrary to
the usual yreceived one of the Captain Generals
competency to suppress the traffic, but to the
views of Her Majesty's Commissary Judge him
SELF expressed in his annual report only the
preceding year, when, alluding to the beneficial
results OF the orders issued and the measures
taken by the Captain-General at that time, 1.-THE
Marquis de la Pezuela,) for the abolition of the
slave-trade, he Observes that though they prove
the existence of the trade, they show the good
effect of the exertions of the Captain General
against it, and prove the truth of what has often
been asserted, that with him rests the responsible
Iity of its continuance"
Your Committee submit that this contradiction
is calculated to impair the value of the evidence
of Her Majesty's COmmissary Judge as to the
actual extent of the slave trade, when taken in
connection with other discrepancies between
figures and statements from the same source. lie
reports, that during the year 1855 the savetrade
was carried on with more than ordinary activity,
and that G. 40S negroes were reported to have been
landed: whereas, in the previous year, (lS54,) the
number reached l 400 according to the official
returns, exceeding that OF any year, except the
immediate preceding one, for a considerable time
past. If the accuracy Of the report for 1855
could be relied on, it would exhibit dmuniton
in the traffic. The Committee, however, have
reason to believe that the number reported is far
below the actual one ; for those who are in posi-
ton to obtain the best information do not hesitate
to assert that in 1854 and 1855 the number
not below 10000. The very discrepancies your
Committee have pointed out tend to prove, that
! Her Maiesty's Commissioners, how Jealous and
active soever possess no reliable data on this sub.
| ject; and that, while their reports are founded
upon such facts only as come to their knowledge
through channels more or less equiyoca, they
themselves entertain conviction that the trade
! is carried on to far greater extent than they are
! in position to establish evidence that would
be deemed conclusive for official purposes
Orthe guilty connivance ofthe authorities of the
island in this infamous trade, some idea may be
formed from the fact that they received llO2
ounces of gold, or about A 600 dollars, for one
cargo alone of 46S slaves, landed at Santa Cruz in
August 1855. The Captain.General superseded
the whole of the employees implicated, and they
were brought to trial but, as is usual in such
cases, they escaped punishment in consequence ot
the evidence necessary to procure conviction not
being forthcoming.
1t would appear that the expeditions to the
coast Of Africa do not proceed from Cuba, as was
formerly the case in consequence OF the greater
facilities the slave-traders have found in fitting out
| in the United States They here meet with cheap
and suitable craft, whilst fittings and stores are
more reasonable they subjected to less obser-
yation and run less risk of detection; masters
and crews, too, are easily found, who act under a
supercargo, usually an experienced slavetraderi
their cargoes are ready for speedy shipment on
their appearance off the given point of ombaTka'
ton, and as they sail under the American lag'
they escape capture on the African coast ana re-
turn to some pre- concerted place off the coast oil
Cuba, where advice is awaiting them as to the
safest point for effecting the Decentralization,
Numerous slavers were expected at the date OF the
Commissary Judges report, and your Committee
have heard from reliable source, that quite as
largo number of negroes were landed last year
as is reported to have been landed in 1851 and
| 1855.
PoRTo RIco-The Vice-Consul at Trinidad de
O. Al Il ,cT hat tIap