The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-26
English Opinion About the Slave Trade i'm
America.

The London Star, the special organ of the
| liberal party in England, defends the United
States Government from completely in the
slave trade, charged by the Times. and Then
turns upon the British Government with
some facts which the Times ought TO have
meditated and to have made some allowance
for:
but, then, England is used Of ipsincerilv
and hypocrisy in this question and in The
oniteo 'a,es Senate language is uttered which
mad better been left unspoken. Yet il is not
for us too warmly to resent it, or the unsel
nsnness, sincerity, and pure humanity of the
Brltlsn people on this subject no man. we he
heve, either In Europe or America, entertains
shadow OF doubt. But the arrangements
under which our African squadron acts. to-
getner with other circumstances, are such as
not dnnaturally to suggest the possibility of
otner motives in the government than the de-
SIRE 10 suppress the trade simply. When Ii is
pointed out that those negroes which are cap
| tured by British cruisers are not returned
10 africa, but are turned. on the contrary,
10 valuable use for the interests OF British
colonies, what have we to answerl 1t
is notorious TO all the world that labor is
SO much wanted in Jamaica that the planters
there would be willing and anxious to revive
lne siaVe trade II they conld, and are actually
carry ing on trade in coolies, which is a slave
trade urder another name. Well why should
the British government expose itself to mis-
representation by taking captured negroes 10
hu whose uatiJB cam
not possibly derive any advantage from cap
| turing slave ships and their cargoes may be
| allowed TO ask whether the negroes taken by
the British cruisers are captured for the pur-
pose or suppressing the slave trade or of sup
plying the wants of the British West India
planters. As the British officers receive f5
a head Tor all captured, too, il is evident that
| 1t is their interest rather to allow cargoes to
| be shipped than to prevent the slavers from
| taking them on board but the chief blot
| in the arrangement is the carving of
| them to British possessions, where labor
! is wanted, and wnere they are not land
| ed as freemen, but under obligations 10 work.
Add TO this that the British government 10
| which Spain has bound herself over aud over
| again to put down the trade to Cnba and
| OF money as consideration for such suppress
| sion, does nothing to exact the fulfillment of
| this duty from the Court of Madrid, This is
! unaccountabie. The trade is carried on nOto-
| riously with the sanction of SPAIN the great
| functIonarieS OF whose government n t. and MEM
| bers OF whose royal family, make immense
| fortunes out of it. Why does not the British
| government insist on the execution of this
| treaty! By doing so it would be doing more
| to end the trade in African slaves than can be
| accomplished by the united exertions of the
| British and United States sQuadrons united ;
| Dnt if insurmountable obstacles, of which we
| know nothing. interpose in the way of this,
| why not cease appropriating the captured ne
| arrangements that which leaves our motives
| naturally open TO the spicion of those to
| whom thoughtless or mischieyous section OF
| our press and politicians never omit an oppor-
| tunity of uni justifiably denouncing as favor
| able 10 the slave trade p