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ORIGIN OF SLAvERY.-Mr. Bancroft, in
his first volume Of his history of the United
States, gives an account of the early traf.
fic of Europeans in slaves. In the middle,
ages the venetians purchased white men
Christias and others, and sold them to the
saracens in Sicily and Spain. In England
the Anglo.Saxon nobility sold their SER
wants as slaves to foreigners. The Portu
gnesa first imported negro slaves, from
Western Africa into Eerope, in 1442.
Spain soon engaged in the traffic, and ne
gro slaves abounded in some OF the places
in that Kingdom. After America was dis.
covered, the Indians Of Hispaniola were,
imported into Spain, and made slaves. The
Spaniards visited the coast of North Ameri-
ca, and kidnappen thousands of Iudiaus,
whom they transported into slavery in Eu-
rope and the West Indies. Columbus
himself kidnapped five hundred native
Americans, and sent them into Spain, that
they might be publicly sold at Seville
The practice Of selling North American
Indians into foreigu bondage continued for
two centuries. Negro slaves was first in
troduced into America by Spanish slave
holders, who emigrated with their negroes.
A royal edict Of Spain authorised negro
| slavery in America, in 1918. King Fer
dinand himself sent from Seville fifty slaves
to labor i'll the mines. In 1881, the direct
! traffic in slaves between Africa and His
PAMELA was enjoined by royal ordinance.
! Las Casas, Who saw the Indians vanishing
away before the cruelties of the Spaniards,
suggested that the negroes, who alone could
endure severe tolls, might 60 further employ
This was in 1918.
Sir John Hawkins was the first Englisl,
man that engaged in the slave trade. In
1852 he transported large cargo of At
leans to Ffspaniola. In 1857, an othe. ex.
petition was prepared, and Queen Elizabeth
protected and shared in the traffic. Hawkins
in one Of his expeditions, set fire to an
African city, and out of three thousand
inhabitants succeeded in seizing two hun
dred and sixty. James Smith, of Boston,
and Thomas Kecser, first brought the coonist
to participate iu slavery. In 1854 they
imported cargo Of negroes. Throughout
Massa chusetts. the cry of justice was raised
against them as lnaefactors and murders,
the guilty men were committed for the
offence, and the representatives ofthe people
ordered the negroes to be restored to their
native country at the publice expense. At
later period. there were both indian and
negro slaves in Massachusetts. In 1920, a
Dutdh ship entered James river, and landed
twenty negroes for sale. This was the
epoch of the introduction OF. slaveay in
Virginia. For many years, the Dutch
were principally concerned in the slave
! trade in the market of Virginia.
TIE GOLDEN DAYS OF Yourn.-Wbat
a feeling Of regret steals over the heart, as
the joyous d2ss Of youth fit as heaven like
dreams across our imagination, to think that
they are lost TO us for ever ! when the rare
opportunity offers itself of snatching few
moments for contemplation from the tolls of
the busy world, how readily do We embrace
it, brief though it be, to indulge in the
pleasing remembrance Of the past, to COM
pare it with the present, and trust for at
bright realization Of "things long soght for"
in the future! What a glorious thing is
youth full of warm confidence, high hopes
and generous feelings flowing from the
heart like gusA Of music from an angels
harp. How keen are its enjoyments, how
novel its sensations, how exquisite its ap-
probation of the true and beautiful What
music is there to compare with outpourings
of youthful and generous heart! What
light is there for youthful heart prompted
BY noble ambition, impossible 10 climb
But the transient dream Of youth soon fades
away, alas !! how soon and age comes creep
ing on us. so imperceptibly, that we start
and sigh for days now lost when we feel
the icy hand upon US that comes to claim
us for its own with time we begin to
ana'yze our sensations, examine the petals
of the flowers Of o,,t youth and let the odor
escape, till, one by one, the leaves fade and
fall, and leave the withered stem alone. in
the gazer's haud.'-N. Y. Ledger.
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