The Kanzas news., 1859-05-07
The Bic Slate Tradar.

/ "A black, Eoolly -headed potentAte, and
i nevertheless anotabled monarch, aasrsinsde 3
and experienced warrior. and king whose
4 deeds had resounded far and Wide--Gexo.s
By name. died lately. says the London. izsss.
/ We econdense from the Post of B. Y; on g
/ the western coast of Africa. !l,R osFE 5saz5sF
/ sITbis ruler of the kingdom of Dzhoney
has. suppksd cur Spanish and Portuguese
slaEsdsale.s for the last twenty y-6Ee years.
aud tedo 30 has been guilty Of IS sgfests
atrocities IS any man ever inflicted npons
| society--burning towns. destroyed yWhoaa1
tribes of people. TO meet the daEnaads. toff
Cuta and Brasil. if-s ssis q ssieesIsI % snssu
| Mr.. Bowman. an American ,Enissisaaryss
| referring to his eonduct says enc See .sszs
| ST have counteds4the, sites of 5eightesn
desolated towns within q distance OF sixty =
miles. between BadagFY and Abeokuta-thez
legitimate result of the slave trade The
whole Yoruba couatry is full of depopula-
ted townsi some of which were even larger
than Abeoknta is at present ss0f all the
| places visited by Landers. only Ishukki Iy--
boho,- 1kishi. and q few villages resnain.7-7a
Iienna, vas destroyed a few weeks. after nay
arrival IN the, country. Other aud still lar
! these, called Oke- Oddan, the Dahomey srn.
which peeasionitheC King presented Domin-
! 90, the SLAYER, StsithSOO slaves. The whole
number Of peopse destroyed ia this section
of country within the last fifty years eanuot'
be less than SOC, ,oe0.'' --=--=--=-=-----
This internal traffic caused the rapid set
tlement of portions of Africa, aud large
towns grew up; but Whydah, Badagry and,
Parlo Noyo. owing to the nature Of tbis
/ traffic, became dens of pirates. One wss'
destroyed in fight among it's own peopleja
and the Others; were leyeled by British aFnns.i
| But at last the tyrsnt is dead HisIdisFij
NAL reign, says the, London, Meps,. is over,
| "His death has been nnourned and his
funeral celebrated by the entire slave- trade
Interest of the coast and the interior. rs ffisl
Eobsequies were performed at sAbomi; slbshss
slave traders of Whydah attended aud as
sisted at them; each carried thither his con,
tribution of slaves 10 be presented to his
successor. Il had been proposed to facilia
tate Gezo's admission into the other world
| by the slaughter of {, 600 Africans: shut.O
whether from the difficulty of procuring that
number, or from their greatly increased
value to the eSpaniards, the massacre was
happily ylirnited to 500 o Gezo's European
agent at Whydah, as usual. fdisplayed ahisH
lmagni6cence on the occasion. He offered
to the new sovereign alaEgs sAiiYer salver.
filed with bright new dollars, and provided
for the enjoyment of his old master in the
Paradise whether he is supposed to hhavssll
bsAkeh himself, the model Of an oak tres
lin the frosted silver, from the branches oofI
which hung. for his use when disposed to-
the fragrant weed. the choicest of Hayanna
cigars" - ~ ....o.....,o.l,.ss.,,.,. 80.
But though the ty-ant Is gone. his son. son.
as cruel and bIood-thiFsty as he. mounted
the throne. and announced that he would
continue his fathers pelioy-so that slave
traders will still find in Dahomey full mar
ket, and monarch able and ready to feed, !
this Internal traffic o." '7'i4@2 go si!' - =