Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-07
THE SORROWS OF A sLAvEDEALER.

A year ago, thereabouts, the ship Rebecca
Capt. Carter was chartered by the American Col
onization Society to take from New Orleans to
Liberia the liberated slaves Of the late John
McDonough. In due season, she arrived at that
Colony, where she does not seem to have met with
a very hearty welcome. Whether the captain
thought it would be a good speculation to carry
some of Mr.. McDonough's slaves TO Cuba to aid in
Outstanding that Island does not appear, but it
is certain he asked for clearance at the Custom
House before the negroes were landed, and was
refused on that very ground A rumor, moreover,
had got abroad that there was on board the Re-
becca one slave in particular, bright mulatto
girl, about eighteen years of ago. tolerably fair.
looking, named Sarah, whom it was the Captains
intention to retain; and the impression had be.
come geperal--possibly, far as she was concern
ed, an inconsequential conclusion-that he meant
to make slave of her, inasmucb as it was obser-
we'd that his vessel was we'll fitted to take back a
full cargo of the raw material cut Of which we
prepare in the Southern States OF this country the
future missionaries and civilizers Of Africa. So il
was determined, on abe part of the Liberians that
Sarah should not come back in the hands of Capt.
Carter, she being considered, probably, as quite
elubl W ueE ouaEo VA tu0 WOIh VI eNbuBeIlZlDRI
that Continent This determination was not car
ried out without some difficulty; for when the
Captain finally landed with his passengers, and
Sarah among them-being constrained to do so by
the refusal of q clearance at the Custom II ouse-
he was surrounded by crowd, who, were they
not all Missionaries might be called q mob; tho
captain handled his revolver; Sarah burst into
tears, either from JOY at returning to the land of
her birth, which she left about two hundred years
ago, or from sorrow at the prospect of remaining
in it, or regret at parting with the gallant Capt.
Carter, who perhaps had commended himself to
her by his apparent freedom from anything like
prejudice against color. But the crowd was re,
gardless alike of sObs ard revolvers; the girl was
compelled or allowed, whichever it was, to remain
on shore; the captain was granted his clearance;
and in due time the Rebecca put to sea.
Events have shown that the fears of the Liberi.
ans were justified as to the general savetraGing
proclivties of Capt. Carter, whether they were
right OF not in suspectng him of intending TO make
slave of Sarah. Considering himself probably,
chosen instrument of carrying out the providen~
tal scheme Of Christianizing Africa by taking
back to her shores a cargo of leayen, he chose to
return with another load Of the uniermented ma
} teria to be worked up, in due time, by the evan
gelizing process of pantation.life in Cuba, into
new missionaries of Christianity and Civilization
for their native land. The Rebecca picked up
return cargo at some of the barracOons along the
coast, the usual percentsee Of which was safely
landed in Cuba. Virtue in this case was its own
} reward and the profit was so large on the sale Of
these 800 neophytes that the captain could afford
moved thereto also by some legal consideration
to burn his ship. And so ended the Rebecca.
But what became OF Capt. CarterS Did he retire
to the delights of an elegant privacy, and the
{ enjoyment of ample wealth, undisturbed by any
recollections of the past, save perhaps, regre. al
the absence of the "nut brown maid" Of whom he
was robbed by the untimely and unreasonable pre-
IjudiCes of the people Of Liberiaf Here, unhap-
PLY, we must decend from the throne of history
to the foot-stool of conjecture. A few days since
a vessel called the Josephine was seized in this
port on a charge of being a SLAYER, and she now
lies at the Atlantic Dock in tbs hands of the u.
S. authorities, discharging cargo
The crcumstantial evidence against her is over
whelming, though it by no means follows that
therefore she will be condemned as a SLAYER. But
she is commanded by Capt. Carter. Is it our
friend of the Rebecca from whom Sarah parted
only little year ago on the beach of Liberia with
heaving bosom, and eyes brimmpg with tears
Is it the memory Of that that has proved too
strong to him, or she missionary spirit that has
overcome him? In either case he-if it be he-has
been more jealous than prudent, aud has fallen
into the weak and Amsy nieshes which the law
has contrived in the hope Of entangling some Of
these shipping dealers in human merchandise. 1t
obligeS Capt Carter to give indifferent bail in the
sum Of So 900 to appear 20 answer. Thus misfor-
tune pursues him on both continents. The loss
Of Sarah was in purely pecuniary view Of that