Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-05-13

the Colonial Minister Is liable 10 i'm
preachment. At Sierra Leone and at the
Gambia. a semblance of rigid adherence
to the law Of England is parodied by the
declaration that no British subject can
own slave. The bubble is. that no
White man can possess sla'e. Monstrous
subterfuge. No British subject .forsooth
does own slave; but every hour the
Romanus Civis evades the law by marry
ing. in accordance with African custom.
colored or a black woman, who can and
does possess slaves in her own name; and
and although the British government
does no. recognize the African lady as a
veritably born lieye ofthe British crown,
she can walk, nevertheless. into court
with a slave case, and claim award of JUS
tice from the lips of British Judge.
! "Buri,anic al time servers and shallower
casuis,s may still fatty urge that the
form OF slavery on the coast is vastly
modified; but, be the form what it shall
to all lawless purposes slavery breathes
and moves in broadest license. Any
civil or military servant of the queen can
b. the IN ster Of batch Of slaves. if ne
but have the cash to buy, or rather to
pawn them from the immediate chiefs
or from their families. One ounce OF
gold dust is the ordinary price knucklc,
down for slave; but sometimes tina,
price may be advanced to three ounces. -
SO soon as man puts his feet within
the English settlement. he begins to fret
his brains about the purchase of pretty
little blackamoor. If lucky in his mar
ket. he invests the plant maid with al!
the attributes of a pseudo spouse for the
term of his temporary exile. Girt by a
band Of dancing girls, whose lascivious
motions are meant to rouse her slumbcr-
ing passion, and eheered by the approval
of her parents, her friends her conscience,
and her creed, the damsel enters gladly
on the degrading functions Of concubln
age; and should she prove herself false
in enc iota to bed or board the buyer
can always recover the amount of his
pawn in an English court of justice, and
at u nod of an English Judge.
The people OF England are not flrn-
ished with a daily catalogue of these
things. for if they were they would She Y
IN infinite deal less of staunch luke
warmness in the mitig atom of slavery or
African soil and pcrh'ps my LORD
Brougham, and those excellent and lu-
minpus statesmen who have set their fac :.
against emigration from Africa. are hug
ging themselves heartily with the convic-
ton, that in the same ratio as the out
ward traffic in black flesh is decreased sc
must the inward trade be hurrying to it,
death. Alas, for them The grey
haired prophets of emancipation must
hang awhile on the nimblc heels of Man
chester. There is Il balm tor them in
yarn. Capped and clad in rectituIe, ,dut..
shall prec,de profit. 1t moulds the heart
and mcnds the head. The members o
the Cotton Supply Association have a
mission to fulfil. Trey cannot start the
growth of cotton in western Africa and
shelter slavery. Tney cannot counten
ance the official sins pgeonholed In
Downing street. To develop rightly
and lastingly the commercial or agrlcul-
tural resource. of Africa, they must not
shrink at any odds from toiling side BY
side with the manly spirit of freedom.-
Else they weep for Uncle Tom : Fan
better for them that they went not to the
Gold Coast, than that they should scour
the seas thither to reverse or jeopardise
the holy dogma laid down by Wilberforte
Il How can thev talk Of enlightenment and
liber'y, of the liberal arts and sciences
and of equitable commercial interchanses,
to the kings of Ashantee and Dahomey
when their own strong arms fail to weld
the helf-fuscd metal of oppression to
their upright will : Can hypocrisy be
viler than when it stalks in the garb OF
knowledge and re>ealed religion to in
struct the untaught and baptize the pagan
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