The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-10
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
ARRIVALS OF TRAINS
slavery and Freedom.

The decision IN the case OF tue negro
Somerset by Lord Mansfield, Chief JUS
,ice of the Court of the Kings Bench,
Ia the effect that slavery cannot exist in
ENGLAND WAS not delivered until the
wear l772. At that time one hundred
thousand negroes wear We're kidnapped
IN Africa and carried into slavery in the
West Indies, then chiefly British colon
j... The decision Of Lord Mansfield
however. WAS not the first OF It's KIND
in the order OF time More than ten years
before the Admiralty Court Of Glasgow
liberated negro slave who had been
imported into Scotland; and seventy
wears before Justice Holt ruled that Gas
soon as Il negro comes into England
he is free; one may be villain IN
England but not slave and later:
In England there is no such thing as
Slave, and human being was never con
,iIercd chatte TO be sold fora price
However, that may have been, it Is the
fsrt that statute was PASSED in lj41,
during the reign OF Edward W. only
brother as well rs regal predecessor Of
Queen Mary and Elizabeth, which provid-
Fl that any runaway, or one who NED
it.r tor three days, should be brought be-
fore the Justice, marked on the breast
with Y with II hot iron and adiudged
the slave for two years Of the man who
BOUGHT hun. His owner was bound u
give INN bread, water aud small beer,
but not flesh meat, and WAS empowered to
whip him, chain hIm or otherwise force
him 10 work. In case the slave absent
ed himself for IL fortnight he was 10 be
branded with aR : on the forehead or
check, and aiudged slave forever.
second escape was made felony. Such
slave might be lawfully compelled to
wear an iron ring on his neck, his les or
his arm. Further, this mercitul statute
provided that any child who, being
bound apprentice, ran away from his
MASTER, should become slave, Tbs
statute continued in operation until the
restoration of the StuartS in 1860, when
serilom in England was put an end TO by
statute.
Whatever NAV be said as to the cN-
i,tencc of slavery in England, that coun-
try was Jealous in prosecuting the slave
trade Tor the benefit Of the rest Of the
world. England took part in supplying
the ,panIurds with slaves in 1862, pre-.
yiousiv to which negroes had been land
ed in England, and there sold, IN lj53.
Queen Elizabeth is charged with having
shared the profts%with Sir. john Haw-
kins. the first Englishman who command
ed regular slave trader. From that time
To l7sS the English We're active IN sup
plying slaves to their own co.onies ana
those of Spain. Some OF the American
colonies demonstrated against the trade,
but without success, rs the mother
country encouraged 1t. New England
vessels were active slave carriers, and IN
Difference to that interest, when the
American constitution was formed IN
l7SS. Congress was prohibited from IN
tcrjlctipg the traffic before 1908, at
which time II was abolished. Inc
Friends have been the earliest and most
consistent opponents OF slavery and the
slave trade. The sentiment OF hostility
to slavery, WAS, however, shared in the
eighteenth century by many literary
men, philosophers and statesmen, who
.rborcd with zeal for the suppression
Of the system. or these the most noted
WAS Granville Sharpe through whose
influence the decision of Lord Mans
field above referred to was gwen.
in l79s MIR. Wilberforce's proposal to
pu, an end to slavery WAS rejected by
the House of Commons but Austria
bad declared against the traffic sixteen
wears before and the French had follow
;Ha, example in l794. Not unit. 1907