New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-28
The English Slave Trade.

England is about to send Sir Bartle Frere
on mission to Zanzibar, in order to check
the slave trade carried on so briskly by the
Sultan of that far-Off, mysterious kingdom.
4" From Kilwa," states the London Examiner,
" some &C, 900 to 10000 slaves are annually
exported to the island, of whom about one or
two thousand are kept in Zanzibar, and the
remainder exported to Muscat, packed in
dhOws like herrings in tub" The Eram
liner is skeptical as to the efficiency of Sir
Bartle Frere's Grand, although all philan-
thropic London bids him godspeed, hailing
him as "a WilberfOrce, ClarksOn, and a
Brougham," paying him, after the usual John
Bull custom, farewell honors in dining and
wlning. DR.. Livingstone and SANKEY'S let
tiers and lectures have exposed the horrors of
the East African slave trade, and the Eng
lish press more than hint that the present
expedition is only an incapable, snowy effort
by the Tite Barnacles of the Government to
choke off public Indignation at the apathy of
England while these enOrmites are openly
carried on under her eyes. Sir Bartle Frere's
mission is so uncertain as to its effect, unless
backed by a squadron powerful enough to
bring both the Sultan of Zanzibar and the
navy of dhows to order, that English philan-
thropy in sending him appears rather doubt
full in the face of the fact that a slave trade
has been carried on for years by Englishmen
in English vessels on the coasts of Australia
with the full knowledge Of the British Gov
eminent. The atrocities of the Zanzibar
traffic pale into insignifcance before the hor-
rOrs Of this trade. A recent case brought to
light in Melbourne has made it impossible
| for either the English Government or press
longer to feign blindness to the matter. A
certain DIR. Murray, owner of a brig Carl,
| went out in 1871 to kidnap natives in the
southern seas. The Melbourne Argus states
| that the method of doing this was to invite
| the natives from the islands to come out in
| their boats to trade in provisions, and when
| they were alongside of the ship heavy pieces
| of iron were flung on the canoes until they
| were upset; when as many of the struggling
wretches that did not drown were taken from
the water and thrown into the hold, and the
matches battered down. On one voyage
however, some eighty savages, on being con
| despairing rage in wild cries and attempts tt
fire the vessel, when Murray and his crew
deliberately fired among them all night long
In the morning they went down, brought VI
the dead first, and then the wounded, WHIT
were tied hand and foot and thrown into thu
water. Murray, falling sick in Sidney, be
came terrified at the approach of death, ant
confessed the crime. That it was common
one Is proved by the fact that he found al
open demand and ready sale for the slaves II
Melbourne at el0 piece. He was acting a
Queens evidence against his crew in the trial
which was in progress at last advices.
But no attempt is made or even suggests
by the English Government to suppress tn
trade, which more than equals in extent tina
of Zanzibar. We cannot but remember tn
righteous horror with which the Englisl
looked upon slave dealing in this country
Until some attempt is made to control the
own wholesale traffic we must look upon 81
Bartle Frere's missionary enterprise as di!
, play of purely Pecksniffian sentiment.-Ne
York Tribune.