Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-09-24

But there long continued intervention py 1reat
Rr,ain which speaks with controlling power ana ~
i IN This ncent that have reserved 1t for the close OF
v hat have to cay this head Though not without
shades dark has Tor more than hall century
been shining ex ample the civilized world refer to
that nerv.nto against slavery which from its ad0p
ton has constant and brilliant as to make us for
get the earlier intervention for slavery when for instance
Great Britain the peace Of Utrecht interviewed to
tort the detachable privilege OF supplying slaves to Spanish
America the rate Of 800 yearly for the space of thirty
years. and then again at the peace OF All Ia Chapee hg
ged for yet longer sanction to this gnobe Intervention
nay it almost makes forget the kindred intervention at
sordd and criminal by which this Power coun
teracted all efforts for the prohibition OF the slave trade
even own colonies and thus helped to asten slavery
upen Virginia and Carolina The abolition OF the slave
trade by scr of Parliament in SO7 was the signal lot
change of history.
But curiousy it was the whites who gained the first
fruits of this chsnge by triumphant Intervention for the
of Christian slavery the Barbary States
The old hero of Acre Sir Sidney Smith released from bis
long imprisonment in France, sought TO organize holy
league for this intervention The subject was discussed
at the Congress of Vienna; and the agents OF Spain and
Portugal anxious for the punishment OF their piratca
neigbbors aued that because Great Britain had abolish
ed itself the traffic in African slaves therefore must
see that whites were no longer ensaved in the Barbary
States argument less logical than humane But
Great Britain undertook the work With fleet com
pete at all points, consisting Of five lneobate ships,
ys heavy frpates four bomb vessels and Ave gunbrgs
Lord Exnouh approached Agiers, where he was joined
by considerable Dutch fleet anxious to take part this
iptery III force must be resorted TO- said the
Admiral in his general orders have the consolation
OF knowing that fight in The sacred of humanity
and cannot fail of single day enough with
such force in such cause The formidable castles of
the great savemnger battered to pieces and he
compelled sign treaty, confirmed under salute of
twenty ore guns which its first article stipulated he
abolition of Christian slavery Glorious and be-
stance OF antiquity where the Carthagenians
CURED to abolish the practice of sacrificing their chill
drena treaty which has been called the nobest Of his
tory because it stipulated in favor of human nature
The Admiral who had thus triumphed, was hailed
emsncipator. He received new rank in the peerage,
and new blaz nry on MS coat Of arms Inc rank ia OF
petual memory of this great transaction Is still borne
Christian slave holding aoft the and dropping his
broken letters. But the personal sasacons of the Ad
TO the Government describing the battle and written at
the time he says ITO have been of the humbest
struments in the hands of Divine Providence for bringing
to feroc0us Government and destroying forever
the nsuterabe and hcrrd system Of Christian slavery,
can never cease to be of delight and heartfelt
comfort to every individual happy enough to be employed
in it"r E
But have said too much about an instance which
though besufu and may be regarded only as
in the gander and extensive Intervention
against African slavery which was already organizing des
tined at last to embrace the whole human family Even
before Wherefore trumphed 10 Parliament Great Britain
interviewed With Napoleon, 1906 TO induce him Join
in the abolition of the slave trade but he fatty refused
What France would not then yield was extorted from
Portugal in l6I0 from Sweden shortly afterwards and
from Denmark in 1914 An Intellectual attempt made
TO ehlst SPAIN BY the temptation of pecunary sub
sdies and aso to enlist the restored monarch Of France
Louis XVIII, by the offer Of cum OF money out
right the cesspn of West India island in consdera
tion of the desired abolition Had gratitude to benefac
Tor prev allied these Powers could resisted but it
was confessed by Lord Casereagh in the Honse of Com
mons that there distrust of the British Government
'even among the better classes of the people," who
thought that zeal in this behalf prompted by de
sire irure the French colonies and commerce. rather
than by bepevol-nce But the British Minister more
successful with Per ugal which induced by pecunary
ptu
1915. This followed by the declaration of the Con-
gre.s Of VienDs Of Lord Casteresgh February
Is, 1915, den ,uncDg the African slave trade ncon
ssent with tn principles OF humanity and universal bene
violence Meanwhile Napoleon returned from Elba, and
what tie British intervention failed to accomplish with
the Bourbon monarch, and what the Emperor had
fatly refused spontaneously done by him. doubt
less in the hope Of coDcilating British sentiment His
hundred days Of power sguaized by ordioance
aboishng the slave trade in France and her colonies
Louis XVIII again restored by British arms and
with the shadow Of Waterloo upon France could not do
less than rafy this imperial ordinance by royal assur
that the traffic henceor,h forever forbidden to
all the subjects Of his most Christian Majesty" Holland
under the influence, aud accepted the res,itu
ton Of her colonies except the Cape of Good Hope and
Guiana condition Of the entire abolition Of the slave
trade 10 the restored colonies and ao every where else
beneath her flag. Spain was the most ndoce; but this
proud monarchy under whose auspices the African slave
trade frat INTO being at last yielded BY the treaty
Of Madrid of 22d Of September 1877, extorted by Great
Britain it stipulated the immediate abolition Of the trade
north Of the Equator and also after 1920 its abolition every
where in consideration of f40O 0OOtbe price of free
domto be paid by the other contracting party In vim
dication of this Intervention Wbeorce declared in Par
lament that I" the grant to Spain would be than
repaid to Great Britain in commercial advantages by the
opening Of great continent to British ndustry'-al of
which impossible if the slave trade allowed to
continue under the Spanish flag.
At the Congress Of AK la Chapelle, in 1873 and Of
Verona in 1872 Great Britain continued her system Of
Intervention against slavery Her prmacy in this cause
was recognized by European Powers 1t the common
remark of continental pubcts that she made the
her own One of them portrays her wildly since 1910
waeng ncessant against the principle OF the slave
trade and by this crusade undertaken in the of hui
marty making herself the declared protectress of the
African race These the words of French author
ity According to him. it is nothing less than iDces
SAINT war and crusade which she has waged and the
position which she has achieved is that protectres of the
African race In this character she has not been
civilized world but she has carried il among the tribes
and chiefs Of Acs who by this omnipresent intervention
summoned to barbarous and criminal Gus
tom BY Parliamentary report it appears that in 1860
there twenty four treaties in force between Great
Britain and foreign civilized Powers for the suppression
of the slave trade and also forty similar treaties be-
tween Great Britain aud native chiefs OF Africa.
But this Intervention not only by treaties il was
also by spondrnce and circulars And here approach
part Of the subject which illustrates the vivacy Of this
intervention All British ministers and consuls were 40
many pickes constant guard in the outposts where
they resided They held to every service by which
the Cause could be promoted ing aud print
ing documents against the slave trade especially coun
tries where unhappy il still pursued. There was
the Popes bull OF 1889, which Lnrd Pamerston did not
hesitate to transmit for this purpose HE agents in Cuba
Brazil and even IN Turkey some Of whom were success
full 10 their efforts to obtain ts pubclon although curl
ously enough II was published in Turkey
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