Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-05-14
slavery In Brazil.

Late advioes from Brazil indicate the *
istence Of discouraging state Of affairs with
regard to slavery there 1t is asserted by
RIO Janeiro journals that there are over l.
200, 600 slaves in Brazil, and that the much
praised emancipation laws operate so slowly
and feebly that slavery cannot be extinguish-
ed under them in fifty years. An enormous
sum has been expended by the anti slavery
association, with the result Of securing the
emancipation Of some 90 600 slaves. This,
however, is merely drop in the bucket, and
the laws are 30 badly administered and the col
lection Of slavery statistics 80 clumsy aud de-
fective that little or no dependence can be
placed upon them. Another dishearteniuR
circumstance Is the recent discovery that in
the &c. called free province of Cesia, whero
two years ago there was formal celebra
tion of the final liberation of every slave
within its bounds, there still remain 300 un-
fortunates who have not been emancipated
Add to this the open declaration OF the
ministry that no further emancipation meas
ures will be countenanced by the government
and the situation is gloomy enough. But
this is not the worst. The principal illus
trated journal OF Brazil, the Reoista Illus
trade, has just published series Of blood
curdling pictures representing the most horri-
BILE oTuelties said to be inflicted on the slaves
in various parts Of the country, and it de-
clares that every one of these pictures is
based on actual occurrences, the evidence for
which it possesses. The sketches show
slaves being fastened ON planks and thrust
into blazing furnaces others being lowered
by cranes into oaldrons Of boiling water
others being hogged cruelty in one case a
woman is being kicked to death by an over
seer. In this case the accompanying state
ment is too horrible 10 be reproduced In
another instance a slave was buried alive
Photographs are given of two slave children
who we're tortured by burning their limbs
with acids Gases are represented of sui
eide committed to escape from the horrors OF
slavery. One man threw himself under a
railroad train another, while being convey
ed on the railroad, dashed his head through
a car window and contrived to cut his throat
with the broken glass third threw himself
into a river from q steamboat
1t is stated by residents OF Brazil that there
is no eXsggeration in these terrible pictures,
that the most abominable cruelty is practiced
on many of the plantations, where the race
Of the Legrees, banished from the United
States, appears to have transferred itself and
to have taken root and hourished. The friends
of humanity in Dom Pedro's empire appeal
to America for sympathy aud whatever help
can be afforded in the now apparently almost
hopeless contest against this deplorable con
dltlon OF things The Brazilian government,
having ostensibly dealt with the slavery ques-
toe, appears strongly disincined to call out
the ill-will Of the planters by further and
more genuine abolition measures. In effect
it is claimed, emancipation in Brazil is a
mockery and delusion. Slavery hourishes
there in a more defiant and brutal way than
ever. The state of the slaves becomes more
insupportable every year. The poor success
met with by the abolitionists has impoveri
ed and discouraged them. All this is certain
ly bad hearing for country which few
years since was thought to be, under the en-
lightened rule of Dom Pedro, making won
derful progress. Slavery, however, will cor.
rupt and finally ruin any country il let alone,
and unless the Brazilans can be brought to
realize this their future will be a dismal one
N y Tribune