The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-04-26

tion, which took lifetime to work out,
leaving as late as 1910 five slaves in that
State. Connecticut was too much inter-
ested to indulge her philanthropy at the
expense of an Immediate emancipation.
In 1790 she had 2,750 slaves. So she,
too, adopted o plan of gradual emanci-
patton, by the slow and prudent work
ings Of which seventeen Of her slaves re.
manned as such in 1910.
AS Mr.. Bancroft observes, that New
York is not slave State like Carolina, is
due to her climate and not to the supe-
rior humanity of its founders, g vol,
303.) When South Carolina prohibited
the importation of slaves from Africa in
1889, New York imported them and
shipped tho savage3 to this State as
American slaves. AS late as 1858 the
London Times charged that New York
had become tho greatest slave trading
mart in the world, q charge which WI
son in the "Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power" fully corroboratcs. In 1870 New
York had 1924 slaves. She, too,
adopted an Act OF gradual emancipation,
by tho operation of which in 1910 ali but
four slaves had been gotten rid OF. New
Jersey, though adopting the same
scheme, was slower i'll getting rid of her
slaves, GA still remaining iii 1870.
Adam Smith observed: Tho late
resolution Of tho Quakcrs in Pcnnsyl-
vaGia to set set at liberty all their negro
slaves may satisfy us that their numb
cannot be- very great. Had they made
any considerable part of their property
snch resolution could never lave bgcD
taken" (Wealth of Netions.) There
wcro 3,737 slaves i'll Pennsylvania in
| IL, shy
would not sacrifice SO much property.
SO she, too, provided for gradual oman
cipation. The census of 1910 showed
sixty-hve negroes still in slavery. II
1923 O. negro woman was put up on the
auction block along with some machine
ry, Smiths tools aud one COW, aud sold
for debt by tho sheriff Of Fayctto county.
in the State of Brothorly Love. They
were still discussing this caao i'll the Su-
promo Court OF Pennsylvania as late as
1887, but it was about the inadcQuacy of
the price the poor wretch brought, and
not the iniquity of tho transaction about
which they were contonding. Nyncb
VS.. Commonwealth, 6 Watts 1861 1t
YVES the frOsts and SHOWS which put an
end to slavery at the North, not phian-
thropy.
1t is familiar history that the slave
trade by which slavery was established
in this country was carried on by Ola
England and New England, and no5 by
the South. AS Mr.. Lecky points ont,
the New England trade, just prior to the
Revolution, consisted i'll sending hel
lumber to the French Islands, where she
obtained in return al abundant supply
Of mOlasscs. The molasses he distilled
into rum and the rum she sent to Africa
for negro slavea-(NVII., Cen. 33l
Or, as Mr.. McMaStor puts it: "Scarce Il
year passed by but numbers OF slayert
went out from Boston, from Modiord
from Salem, from Providence, from
Newport, from Bristol, Rhode Island
The trade Was u threcfold kind. Mo
lasses brought from Jamaica was turned
into rum; the rum dispatched TO Africa
brought negroes; the negroes carried tC
Jamaica or the Southern States were cX.
changed for molnsses, which in turn,
taken back to New England, was quick,
ly made into rum" (History Of tho
People of United States, VOL 2-l5.)
South Carolina and Georgia, two n
least of the Southern States, protested
against the trade, not from any Gcnti
mentality, but as oveTrunning the co.W
. try with barbarians and interfering witt
the immigration Of the white race. The
statute hooks Of South Carolina, from
1893 to the Revolution, are filled witt
Acts endeavoring to check by taxation
nnd otherwise the importation Of slaves
Gico \. A. lG9S, 17l2, TIA, l7l6, l7l7
l74f, l75l, 176l.) These taxes, with til,
, avowod purpose expressed i'll tbci
preambies Of checking this impOrtation
were raised year by year from CO in III.
to .Gl0O in 1864. We cannot at this NO
ment refer to the authority, but We ar
, under very strong impression that tin
y Colonial Council OF South Carolina q
{ one time actually prohibited the i'm
, portation Of slaves and that their Ac
= WIS suspended by the board of trade il
, London as prejudicial to the commercial
: interests of England. AS soon as South
a Carolina was freed from this foreigl
9 control, in 1877, before any action wa
, taken by Congress, the State prohibited
q tho importation oil together. In tn
q colony of Georgia slavery was abSolutel
q excluded and by her Constitution il
1893 the State prohibited the slave trade
v It is true that the prohibition by 5out
= Carolina was removed from 1904 t.
t 1907, but this was owing to the impos
n sibility of preventing evasion of IL,
i AU"o tllA Obi5h UliO "ttiIb VI u DtdtC ltlF y
8 and it was thought better to bring IT,
negroes directly from Africa than rc
ceive them through New York Us pre-
- tended Americans. SEQ report of j
Johnson Pcttigrew (anothcr Robcl brigG
:. dior) to the Legislature of South Carol
v na, against the reopening of tho slav
e trade, 1856. Year Book, City {
q Charleston, 1883.
o o OF the 202 vessels that arrived j
% Charleston habor with slaves, during III
ir five years that the ports Of tho Stat
y opened for the slave trade, G1 clnine
I to belong to Charleston and exactly IL
N0me number avowcdly belonged to Ne
T.. Ngland, ii Q, Rhode Island 50, Boslo
/ { Connecticut - 70 belonged to Grel
Rrito, a. OF tho other 10, 3 belonged I
Rajtin, NE, to Norfolk, to Sweden,
tn France>. II we look at the list of COZ
sionana wo wiil SEQ that it is not probub
fGat I The 81 which claimed to belong
CharIcston nc %uolly did SO, For Of IL
2O2 vessels WIN Oh brought in slaves b,
IL T consionc"g v GRE natives of Charlie
ton, While So wcr, NATIVES Of Rhode I
land, 81 of Boston md 10 OF France
is most probable, thu Te1ofc' that the
vessels claiming to bel onS 20 CparlehtC