The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-07-22
FROM VARR0.
f,Iow Yankee Shipmasters Engineer the
Slave Trade.
Sensation Of the Day-Silencc Of the
Country's Virtue.
Kellogg in Hotter Water Than Ever.

oro July 2l.-[speciai cores
d dencel--A special agent OF the govern
ment secret service, while at Jacksonville
Florida-I know him well. but for obvious
reasons suppress his name--wrote, not long
ago, TO distinguished senator In wash
ington;
~ have found. while investigating tim.
her depredatious, that negro citizens OF the
IInited States are constantly exported from
Iouisiana and Florida and told into Cuban
slavery, can furnish names and dates ana
names OF vessels engaged In the neiarious
but most profitable business can give tbe
names OF plantations where me olaGKs are
taven and tell where they toilln OuDn
The reouest was appended TO this letter
that IL be shown 10 the president oil the
United States, who was desired TO give In
atruciions looking to the suppression oil
this neWly.born African slave trade. The
nresident read the letter, and said the mat
Ter would be considered and acted ON by
the secretary OF state. Nothing on we SUB.
iect has been said publicly by elIher OF
these digniinries oil the empire rlhuibg
that
NOTHING WAS DOM
by the state department., the secret service
AGENT applied IT, u distinguished republican
senator and informed him Of the facts re-
uuesting that the senate investigate them.
Win he affidavit of n credible witness,
properly and formally attesled before no
Lary, Me secret service agent appealed 10
senator from Maine who said he would con-
fer with the president, ana asked inc agent
to remain silent in reference 10 the matter.
And mere the matter rests aud has rested
for months, with the president anu cabinet
and the senator
THE AFFIANT,
whose sworn statement III hereto mp
pended. Ia well known TO General Sherman,
with whom he served rs field officer In his
shel.smashing southern campaign. VI
course the affidavit only gives The few iacts
known to be true by the ex-oilioer, whose
name is attached to IL. These facts Illus
trate a system OF trade quite as startling as
revelations made by Mr. Mnrch's investi.
pations In Washington and Ben Buffers In
Boston.
This gentleman furnished the following
affidavit
Florida. q
Fernando Lopez de Queralto Of
alto, OF the Island of Cuba, who was an
officer In the Union army, ailirms and says
that during the year --, while holding IN
the liberal army Of Cuba the rank otcol0nel
in the Jurisdiction OF Santiago in CUBA, |
found colored man wholly ignorant OF the
Spanish language, but his native tongue
being English. These facts attracted my
attention. He said he came from Louis
iana md WAS brought with others like him
self to Cuba In 1866, and since then I'VE have
been working as slaves in sugar planta-
ton. We can't get away to go to the
CITY. We have been constantly ut
work and receive no wages" lilo said he
knew nothing OF the city or consuis. when
i heard rebellion had broken out, !
managed to escape and come to you"
This negro came rom plantation near
New Orleans, G. He'd the "thrinR Ilhce' rs
he stated, On O'Callahan's plantation, in
the Jurisdiction Of Santiago, there were sew
eral negroes who spoke only the English
tongue and were not natives OF Cuba. At
many places there are slaves brought since
the war between the north and the
south from the United States, and
sold into slavery IN Cuba, and
this horrible traffic has ilourlshed
for eighteen years to my knowledge.
The nelarious traffic is conducted on
American ships.
[slgnedl Loruz DE- QUERALTo.
Northern District OF rlonda
Personally appeared before me, the
above Fernando Lopez de Queralto, and
made due and legal affirmation OF the
above statement by him subscribed
(Signed A. X. MACK,
u s. Commissioner.
IL, 81 "a copy) -,
the man and brother do aboutit2 ltisaprac-
tical grievance. IL is more intolerabe than
the Tewksbury tannery. The latter only
affected the hides of the dead, while this,
worse than Ben Buffers alms-house tor
lures, enslayes and skins the living. Then,
too, like the original African slaye-trade, II
ia conducted exclusively by blessed New
Englanders. In the convention that
framed the Federal constitution every
southern state voted for the immediate eN.
tinction of the slaye'trado while these New
England states caused the internal traffic
TO be extended Till II was protracted even
into this country. Their devotion 10 the
unhallowed business extends itself with
these most horrible aspects and shapes, at
Tewkesbury and In Cuba, even into our
time, and becomes the more odious since
negro freedom has been sanctiied by Lin.
coins decree and henedcuon. These
piratioal ships, dealing ostensibly In lum-
Der aud fruits and cigars, are owned and
differed and manned by New Englanders
alone, who are staunch republicans
Therefore ia the president silent and the
senate opens not its mouth. Meanwhile
the negroes have been choosing delegates
to great convention, to sit in Washington
and consider negro grievances. republic
can Judge OF the Texas Federal court has
chucked the last one of them out OF white
folks passenger coaches" Massachusetts
tans their skins; New England steals and
sells them from Louisiana and Florida into
slavery even as New England bought them
tor rum and beads on the gold coast and sold
them to Virginia; and Eliza Pmkston Is en-.
tombed without visiting statesman TO
weep 81 her bier. God pity the poor Airi-
can. He has grievances.
THE oTTMAN CASE
looks uglier day by day; Brewster and Bliss
made 1t pay. The lawyers and not the gov
eminent were protited. Cook, the fierce
prosecuting attorney, who used TO serve
the department Of justice, makes rich
story OF II and shows how congress can get
at the true inwardness OF transaction
which makes Bliss and Brewster,
rs the facts are now represented,
lufnitely worse robbers o. the
government than the stsrrouters, even
worse than the great starrouters," Sails
bury, Kiyens aud the rest, who are un-
prosecuted, And yet they stole 500 for
each ten cents wrongtuliy appropriated by
Dorsey.
Poor Kellogg Don't you pity him. A
lobbyist of good standing and credible has
filed with the secretary Of the interior his
own private memorandum book, show
ing what congressman he bought and
at what price in each case,
when he was serving Tom Scott,
He states that he paid former Arkansas
senator, not Dorsey, a round sum. KEEL
logg. then In the lower house, received
$4,000 In money and 100000 In bonds,
Such Is the statement Of the terrible mem.
orandum hook, and than Ketchum and a
number of other M. C.'s took their shares
OF the "swag.n IL Is very ugly story, ex-
citing Kellogg amazingly He withdraws
from public gaze. he and Huntington, while
newspapers and people are staring at Kel.
logg and this new development OF the old
scheme Of public robbery. Kellogg will
not be suffered to sit In the next house II
these apparently well attested facts can be
Auhstaniiated ThaY who know tho fncts